Higher Education Solution Brief

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

for higher education

Deliver engaging campus communications and learning

experiences with a complete solution for publishing interactive
magazines, newspapers, brochures, books, and learning
materials to tablet devices.

Adobe Digital
Publishing Suite

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite integrates with Adobe InDesign software to give higher education
institutions everything they need to create, distribute, and optimize digital publications for a range
of tablets.

Increase communication impact and reach

From campus brochures to scholarly publications to student magazines, your institutions
communications play a significant role in promoting your brand and helping you recruit, retain, and
educate the best students. Now you can further enhance your communicationsand ensure that you
reach the widest possible audienceby creating digital publications for tablets such as Apple iPad,
Samsung Galaxy, and Amazon Kindle Fire.
Consisting of hosted services and viewer technology, Digital Publishing Suite works with InDesign to help
you transform your print publications into rich digital experiences. Reach students, faculty, and staff
more easilyand use interactive content to immerse them more deeplyin key publications including:
Marketing and campus communicationsBoost student recruitment efforts, learning, and your
institutional brand by using Digital Publishing Suite to create high-impact tablet newspapers, magazines,
brochures, and more.
Give prospective students a feel for campus life by allowing them to take 360 video tours of your
facilities and dormitories as they browse through your campus brochure.

With Adobe Digital Publishing Suite,

faculty, staff, and students can:
Deliver engaging publications on
an array of tabletsincluding iPad,
Samsung, and BlackBerry tablets
Efficiently distribute publications,
documents, and learning materials
theyve created using Adobe
InDesign
Optimize teaching, research, and
community engagement outcomes
with robust analytics based on the
Adobe SiteCatalyst solution*
*Requires the Professional Edition
or Enterprise Edition of Digital
Publishing Suite.

Enable alumni to send news, make donations, or purchase branded merchandise right from the pages
of your digital campus publications.
Let students enhance campus newspapers and magazines with interactive galleries of high-resolution
images and video.
Help campus community members efficiently publish academic, athletic, and other school event
calendars.
Scholarly publications and researchShowcase faculty work in a more accessible and wide-reaching
format that makes it easier to attract attention, win awards, and secure grants. With Digital Publishing
Suite, faculty members can:
Easily publish and distribute essays, criticism, opinion pieces, academic papers, and creative writing
Enhance research publications with animations and illustrations that help readers better visualize
complex data
Create engaging academic materials that educate students with a combination of text, illustration,
video, animation, and interactivity

Coursework across disciplinesEnable students to add greater depth and dimension to class
projects, reports, theses, and dissertations. Digital Publishing Suite helps students:
Bring scientific concepts to life by enriching papers and presentations with 3D imagery
and motion graphics
Include detailed digital drawings and plans in engineering and architecture coursework
Enliven statistics and data with rich illustrations, games, and animations
Create cutting-edge digital publications to enhance learning in business, marketing,
and communications
University of Dayton
The school introduces prospective
students to campus life through its
interactive Viewbook app for iPad,
a powerful recruiting tool created
and distributed using Digital
Publishing Suite.
Indiana University
With IU Libris for iPad, the
university was the first higher
education institution to use Digital
Publishing Suite to make its campus
publications available for viewing on
tablet devices.
University of Oregon
The universitys School of Journalism
and Communication incorporated
Digital Publishing Suite into its
Mobile Media Production course,
giving students in journalism, public
relations, advertising, design, and
photography majors the opportunity
to work together to create a digital
magazine for iPad.

In addition to enabling campus community members to deliver richly designed, visually engaging
experiences on tablets, Digital Publishing Suite delivers analytics tools that help you optimize
editorial decisions. With insight into readers viewing habits and levels of engagement with your
content, you can easily fine-tune your publications for the greatest degree of impact. And because
digital publications are dynamic, you can quickly push changes out to all editions and formats.

Promote sustainability and reduce costs

Not only does digital distribution of campus publications and learning content help you reach
more peopleoften more effectivelyon their favorite tablet devices, but it can also help your
institution reduce its impact on the environment and boost its bottom line. The move to digital
publishing supports your sustainability goals as you strive to go as paperless as possible. It also
enables you to avoid the high costs associated with traditional paper-based publishing. With Digital
Publishing Suite, your institution can:
Eliminate the vast amounts of paper and ink used in traditional printing processes, while saving
significant amounts of money on printing fees
Reduce the environmental impacts and postage costs of distributing magazines, newspapers,
recruitment packets, brochures, and other printed materials
Simplify the logistics of publishing workflows, creating efficiencies that allow you to consume
and pay forless paper and electricity
Accelerate adoption of digital document technologies throughout campussuch as paperless
administrative form workflowsthat can also help eliminate waste and costs

Prepare students for career success

Enterprises around the world are looking to hire graduates with digital content-creation and
communication skills. In particular, they need graduates who know how to create and deliver
digital content for the tablets their customers are adopting at an ever-increasing rate.
With InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite in your classrooms and student newsrooms, your
institution can help students in all disciplines develop these in-demand skills. Whether students
want careers in science, engineering, publishing, the arts, or marketing and advertisingor they
simply want the digital skills necessary to support their entrepreneurial venturesteaching them
to design, distribute, and optimize innovative tablet publications gives them an enormous
competitive edge. With these real-world communication, business, and critical-thinking skills,
your students will be well prepared for the global workforce.

Create, distribute, and optimize tablet publications

Build digital publishing workflows on campus with these innovative authoring, production,
and viewing technologies:

Digital Publishing Suite workflow

AUTHORING

Adobe eBook publishing solutions

Your institution can also create
eBooks using InDesign software.
InDesign supports the EPUB 2
eBook format, and Adobe plans to
support new versions of the format
as they become available. For more
information, visit www.adobe.com/
support/indesign/gettingstarted.

Adobe InDesign
Vertical
Layout

Overlay
Creator

Adobe Content Viewer

PRODUCTION

VIEWING

Custom Viewer

horizontal Layout

Folio
Builder

Articles

Partnering with Adobe across campus

Adobe has a long history of forging strong partnerships with higher education institutions. With
industry-leading software, integrated workflows, and instructional resources as well as licensing
programs tailored to higher education, institutions of all sizes can meet student demand for
a technology-enriched education and give students the digital communication skills they need
to succeed in the workforce.

For more information

Leverage Adobe solutions for higher education. Adobe offers integrated software, resources,
and affordable purchasing options to benefit your entire campus community. Find out more
at www.adobe.com/education/hed.

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