Dual article orientation

Hi guys - haven't gotten an answer on this yet or the previous question I posted. If I wanted the articles that I publish in DPS to be published from Magento - is this possible using Adobe Experience Manager?

Hi David, there aren't any plans to allow two different articles to appear based on the device orientation. We have had discussions about enabling dual-orientation apps; however, I don't have a good timeline for when we would enable that. The scope still relies on a single article file for both views. If you create HTML articles then the article would take up the entire screen in both orientations. For fixed-layout designs from InDesign the content would scale up to fill the width or height, then letterbox or pillbox (depending on orientation).

Regarding Magento integration, I'm not really sure. I sent your message to a couple folks who may know better than I.

So right now if I have an article in landscape orientation and another article in portrait orientation, I cannot have those two articles in the same collection - even if the articles are in HTML. Further Adobe has no current plans as to when to introduce such a feature?

Hey Bob, thanks for the note. I want there to be certain article that display horizontal images horizontally that bleed off of the iPad (full screen) and certain articles that display vertical images vertically that bleed off of the iPad (full screen). I get that one collection doesn't have dual orientation, which I totally support. Hell, I'd even get that an entire horizontal collection wouldn't allow me to have vertical images... but I forgot that the entire app has to be either vertical or landscape. Very disappointing. Is there any chance this feature will change to allow more than one orientation per app? I'm going to guess that this isn't a big feature demand on DPS's part.

Hi David, offering the ability to configure an app as dual orientation is something we have discussed at length and there is a chance we add it. I don't have a timeline, though.

Note that the letter/pillar-boxing behavior that Bob alludes to above wouldn't change for articles generated from InDesign; however, HTML articles would take up the full screen.

Bob you said "not available yet" Is there a timeline when the articles will be able to be dual orientation? Want to know if I need to rebuild my existing folios or if there will be fix on the way soon.

Who reads portrait and flips to landscape and back again? Its not on my roadmap either... poor user experience and I agree that DPS sticks to portrait or landscape only and not 'dual'...

I shouted that from the mountaintops from day one. With very, very few exceptions it creates a horrible experience for a reader.

While I agree that a dual orientation within the same issue would make a terrible reading experience, why confine every issue of an entire app to the same orientation? You force an app publisher to stick to one orientation for the entire app. You don't even give them the opportunity to offer a special issue in a different orientation. Why can't publishers make one Collextion portrait and the other landscape within the same app?