The ipad / tablets

Hi, there are many ways to publish content for/on iPad or Smartphones.

At first visit www.make-a-muffin.de (sorry not in GErman only), but you will find output formats for iPAd/Tablet-PCs and Smartphones.

Scroll down to "Ausgabeformate für Web und mobile Geräte", you will find a graphic, why PDF will decrease as online format.

Indeed 3D-PDF is very import, but books without 3D should be publish as ePUB, REVERB or AIR.

Now you will find samples on this site in ePUB (at the end of this site), and at "Adobe AIR und WebWorks REVERB, oder eine APP"

in REVERB, AIR or as App. ALL input of this samples are written with FrameMaker (unstructured or structured in DITA).

Click this samples on iPad, Galaxy, HTC, Blackberry, and ...

Software Manual: http://www.finalyser.de/help

Engineering with 3D (and 3D-PDF and RichMedia): http://www.squidds.de/downloads/bihler

Power company: http://www.squidds.de/downloads/APP

At first what is important in iPad/Tablet-PCs and Smartphone?
Checklist for your use cases:

• running in (almost) all platforms (hardware and OS)
• usable on touchscreen (navigation)
  
• integrated Rich- and Social Media
• updatable
  
• readable in landscape or portrait with automatically adjustment
• Google analytics, Google translator

Your question could be, OK I write with FrameMaker, but tool is perfect to publish for iPad/Tablet-PC and for Smartphones in this formats (described above)?

Take WebWorks ePublisher (for REVERB only) or RoboHelp (for AIR only).

App? Yes, at least you can develope and customize an App, too:

http://www.workflowblog.de/?p=421

- Georg

I have not used an iPad, but I would think one could create a PDF and import it to the iPad.

Macintosh has some new apps to create educational materials. Check into those. I doubt there is anything to create something directly from FrameMaker other than a PDF.

Van