I think I have a good idea what went wrong as I am learning how to create digital publications at the moment. They are created in InDesign (which isn't particularly backwards compatible to start with) and because there are so many updates for the various possible devices that you might publish to, the master file is always saved to the cloud and retrieved from there - i.e. there is no local copy and you cannot manually transport it from machine to machine. The idea is that this will prevent you from working with out of date device files so that your digital publication will always work with all available devices (or subset of devices) at the time you publish.
Most of the work that you need to do to prepare the digital publication can be done off line like any other InDesign document, it is just the last steps when you try and tie it all together that you need to be able to log in to the Cloud to create or retrieve the master files. And yes, I have had occasions when I couldn't log in at college, although I'm not sure whether it was Adobe's fault or mine or possibly a glitch in the college's IT system. So for the companies affected, having older copies of the software would probably make no difference. Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia > Any business that "upgraded" to Adobe CC products and didn't leave > their existing CS6 or earlier versions installed deserves what they > got. > > At the college we haven't had CC installed because (due to licensing > minutiae beyond my comprehension) it actually works out much more > expensive than convention licensed software. I'm going in to campus > Monday and I'm going to suggest to the IT guys that they keep CS6 > installed, just in case. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
