Aquafadas Releases New Version of Its Digital Comics Publishing System

Today Aquafadas announced a new suite of digital comics publishing programs, the Aquafadas Digital Publishing System 3.0, which is designed to make it even easier to publish comics digitally across a variety of platforms. Aquafadas makes software that allows users to export their comics to a number of digital platforms. With version 3.0, those platforms include the web, iOs, Android (including Kindle Fire), and Kobo products. The web export option, which allows users to publish their comics directly to a web reader, and the Kindle Fire export are new with this release. Not surprisingly, given that Kobo owns Aquafadas, users can now export to the Kobo e-reader platform as well. Also new with this release is the AVE AppFactory for Android, which allows users with little app development experience to create custom apps by simply dragging and dropping content. Aquafadas already has a similar product for iOS. I spoke to Aquafadas general manager Rainer Heckmann at Book Expo America last month, before the new release was out, but it was clearly on his mind. “We will soon also have support for the Amazon format KF8,” he told me then, “which means publishers can start from a single source file and design and publish into any channel—into Apple apps, Android apps, Amazon apps. They can publish into ePub and they can even publish into a web reader.” At BEA, Heckmann demonstrated the Aquafadas Comic Composer, which allows the user to split up a comic into panels for a panel-by-panel reading experience and either choose the types of transitions they want (slide, fade, etc.) or go with the default settings. “What you do in Comic Composer is draw rectangles, creating scenes, over the page image of a comic book,” Heckmann explained. “There is always a transition by default, and you can modify that. You can do it very quickly if you simply go with the default transitions; you only draw the rectangles and say ‘I want to move from this panel to this panel,’ but you can also modify the transition manually. It’s also possible to add video an audio to the comic. When the comic is complete, the user then exports it to the AppFactory to make it into an Android or iOS app.” Making the process complete, Aquafadas also has its own digital comics store, AveComics, which is both a webstore and a app. It carries a wide variety of digital comics and has a strong European focus, although there are plenty of American comics in it as well. Aquafadas Releases New Version of Its Digital Comics Publishing System is a post from: E-Reader News

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