Digital Magazine Viewer Unveiled by Adobe

By CIOinsight
2010-06-01
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Adobe on June 1 revealed an application for viewing digital magazines, seemingly the next stage in a multicompany battle over the ebooks and digital media market. In a bit of competitive irony, the technology was used to build Wired magazine's June iPad edition - despite Apple's refusal to support Adobe's Flash, which is used to display many popular Websites' rich content but which Apple CEO Steve Jobs has condemned as slow and buggy.

Rate This Article: Poor Best Add This Article To: Digg this   Del.icio.us   Slashdot   Y! My Web   E-mail   Print Furl   Google   Simpy   Spurl!   PDF Version Adobe is unveiling an application for viewing digital magazines on June 1. The technology has been used to build Wired magazine's iPad edition, which is ironic considering the ongoing battle between Adobe and Apple over Flash, which enables many Websites' rich content but remains unsupported on Apple mobile devices such as the iPad and the iPhone. Adobe's digital magazine viewer seeks to marry digital magazines with rich content such as video and 360-degree images. The application aims to imbue digital magazines with rich content, including video and 360-degree images, as well as a heightened degree of interactivity; with Wired's iPad edition, users can navigate through content via tough gestures, rotate the page into horizontal or vertical modes, and zoom out to see the entire issue at a glance. READ MORE >> test     >>> More Application Development Articles          >>> More By CIOinsight   Email Article To Friend  ♦ Print Version Of Article  ♦ PDF Version Of Article