in5 Version 2: New Features Sneak Peek

We’re ringing in the new year with a brand new version of in5 (InDesign to HTML5). Here’s a sneak peek of what it will look like:

New Features include

Support for native InDesign Animation
Support for Timing of multiple animations (sequencing)
The ability to nest animation and interactivity within groups and Multi-State Objects
new Document Presets
new Output Formats (like iPhone Web App)
Amazon Marketplace integration
Image Quality controls
the ability to add Background Images

We expect version 2 to be available in mid-January. This new version of in5 will be a paid upgrade, with substantial discounts available to version 1 and Kickstarter license holders.

You can check back here, or sign-up to be notified when version 2 is released.

Update (01/16/2014): Version 2 is now available.

2013 Features in Review

The feature list above is in addition to all of the version 1 features that we added to in5 in 2013. Included below is an abbreviated list of those features. As you can see, it was a very busy year.

January

Added iPad Web App feature.
Added icon option for iPad Web App and web favicon.
Added Button States feature (Rollover and Click States now supported).
Added Support for Scrollable Frame Overlays with text.
Added option to automatically make overset text scrollable.

March

Added Liquid Page Format that supports Liquid Layout.
Added Baker Framework export.
Variable page sizes now supported in the Continuous Scroll page formats.

April

Added Support for Multi-State Objects.
Added the following Multi-State button behaviors: Go to Next State, Go to Previous State, Go to State.
Added Show/Hide Button & Form behaviors.
Added the following Button behaviors for Movies and Sound: Play, Play from Navigation Point (movies only), Stop, Pause, Stop All.
Added support for single- and multi-line Text Field form elements.
Added basic support for form elements, including Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, List Boxes, and Combo Boxes.
Added support for Center and Bottom Vertical Justification of TextFrames.
Added support for Bookmark Page Destinations.
Added support for Slideshow Folio Overlay.
Added HTML embedding functionality for InDesign CS4, CS5, and CS5.5 to match the native CS6 functionality.
Added support for animated GIFs.
Added WAV and MP3 fallback search for alternate audio.
Added initial support for CSS hyphenation.

May

Added support for on Blur and on Focus events.
Added “Save Alt Layouts as Documents” Script.

June

Added support for multiple items within Scrolling Frames.
Added support for “No break” at paragraph and character levels.

July

Added SVG Text Rendering option (preserves appearance and scalability–great for retina displays).
Added support for the Web Content Overlay.
Added support for the Image Sequence Overlay.
Added support for the Pan and Zoom Overlay.
Added Resources section which makes in5 extensible by allowing the addition of custom CSS, JavaScript, HTML, and other assets.
Added the ability to select a custom range of pages.
Added support for Text Shadows, as well as Drop Shadows and Inner Shadows on text frames rendered as HTML.
Added support for Autoplay of Audio and Video (as well as Delay) in the Overlay Panel and Play on Page Load in the Media Panel.

August

Added support for Looping Audio and Video.
Added a loading indicator for HTML output.
Added bookmarking capabilities.

September

Added Feature Tour document that appears on first run after install or update.
Added support for variable page sizes in the Slider formats.
Added support for Hidden Until Triggered with InDesign CS4-CS5.5 buttons.

October

Added support for facing master page items.

November

Added support for Running Header text variables.
Added support for Auto Play (on Page Turn) for audio.
Added support for SWFObjects within Web Content Overlays.

Learn more about in5 >>