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Your PDF is not sized exactly to the dimensions of the ipad, so we have to tell the pdf tag some things to get it to show up correctly. I changed your pdf tag to look like this:


<pdf name="spring12" alias="PDF" source="sp2012.pdf" height="100%" width="90%" spreads="yes" covertile="yes" tile="yes" align="center" valign="center" lwidth="100%"></pdf>


Notice that it is set at a width of 90%, your PDF is a little taller than it is wider, so we have to make this adjustment. I also added an lwidth of 100% so your landscape mode won't try and show that extra 10%. And now that it is 90x100, I added an align and valign to center it on the screen.

Unfortunately with the odd size of the issue, you will probably always have a little black on the sides.

I also set the covertile to "yes" which makes the PDF load in a better quality on launch.
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Is your tag a child of another object? If it is this might be the cause of it cutting off, because its size is bound to the geometry of its parent. Please make sure your PDF tag is set to 100% height and width of the device screen, otherwise it will not display correctly on the screen.

The resolution issue could be solved by setting your covertile attribute to "no" this will load the cover upfront and should result in a clearer PDF. From the stand point of PDF standards, we tend to lean towards print ready PDFs rather than web ready. We also to keep the size of the PDFs low, use no more than 132 DPI.

If you want to place a panel in a specific location within the wire, you can use xpos and ypos attributes. The top left corner of the screen will always be x0,y0. Play around with adding these to your panel attributes and defining where you want it to be.

If you are still having issues with your PDF, you can post the bit of wire that that tag is in on this topic, or we can have you add me as a collaborator on your project and I can look at it deeper.
Steve,

yes that message was added fairly recently. To fix this you need to go into the App Platform Settings and select at least one of the orientation options. This will add that information to the plist of the App.

I will make sure the tutorials get updated.
It does look like the links got broken. I have corrected them and you should be able to download them now.

As far as the size of you thumbnails, there isn't a hard and fast rule for this, but the bigger they are the bigger your App will become and the longer they will take to load. The thumbnails provided are 6-8k apiece.

Thanks.
Don, for the current beta, you have to already be a App Creation Studio user to become a collaborator. This will change at some point and be open to new users as well.

In the meantime, if you want to email me at community@rarewire.com, I can see what I can do about getting you an extra beta code ;)
Bryan,

you might also check out the documentation surrounding the panel object. You can find that by selecting the Developer Resources link at the top of the Studio.
Happy Holidays and sorry for the delayed response.

Building an App in "Wire", our XML based description language affords you the ability to use statements on a common ontouch attribute set on your keys and updating a "current count" variable once a key is selected and the proper sound is played. This means that every time one of your keys is selected, the wire can behave as you expect. You will easily be able achieve the scenario above using our existing action tags.

In a few weeks RareWire will be launching a private beta of our App Creation Studio. Stay tuned into this community and we will announce how to sign up to give it a try yourself.
The upcoming beta release will give you more of a sense of the actual process. Patience is a virtue!
In the coming weeks we will put the finishing touches on a developer resource section of our App Creation Studio and that will contain help and training information that I am actively working to create.

I would love to hear your input on what types of things you feel would help other users in the long run. A lot of the issues you are coming across are specific to using the project in the XCode environment and many will not be required to use the App Creation Studio.

That being said, if you have specific topics you would like to see covered, by all means pass them along and I can make sure we include those.

thanks!