InDesign: Interactive PDFs
2h 27mIntermediate2018-05-21
Authors
David Blatner
In-demand Speaker, Author, and Cohost of InDesignSecrets.com
Course details
Learn how to make interactive PDFs—the quick, efficient, and fun way—with Adobe InDesign. Interactive PDFs make great forms, magazines, presentations, prototypes, and even ebooks. They combine the security of the PDF format with the dynamic capabilities of the web—and they display equally well on desktops and mobile devices. In this course, InDesign expert David Blatner explains what interactive PDFs are, why they're so useful, and how to make them yourself with Adobe InDesign and Acrobat. Learn to take a new or existing PDF and add links and bookmarks; create buttons that play media, send email, and submit data; build forms with intelligent fields; and embed audio and video. Plus, discover how to add polish with page transitions and animation, and reduce the file size of your PDF so it's easier to share.
Learning objectives
Exporting interactive PDFs
Inserting hyperlinks, bookmarks, and buttons
Building interactive forms
Adding text and list fields
Adding multimedia such as sound and video
Controlling PDFs with JavaScript
Creating page transitions
Working with animations and Flash
Learning objectives
Exporting interactive PDFs
Inserting hyperlinks, bookmarks, and buttons
Building interactive forms
Adding text and list fields
Adding multimedia such as sound and video
Controlling PDFs with JavaScript
Creating page transitions
Working with animations and Flash
Skills covered
Digital PublishingInDesignGraphic DesignAdobeDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What is an interactive PDF
- 03 - Limitations of interactive PDFs
- 04 - Exercise files
- 05 - What you should know before starting this course
1. Interactive PDF Essentials
- 06 - Creating your workspace
- 07 - Building a new interactive document
- 08 - Previewing interactive PDFs
- 09 - Exporting basic interactive PDFs
- 10 - Exporting rich interactive PDFs
2. Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, and Buttons
- 11 - Hyperlink fundamentals
- 12 - Page and anchor hyperlinks
- 13 - Setting and editing hyperlink destinations
- 14 - Creating bookmarks automatically
- 15 - Manually creating and editing bookmarks
- 16 - Understanding buttons
- 17 - Setting button rollover states
3. Interactive Forms
- 18 - Adding text and list fields
- 19 - Checkboxes and radio buttons
- 20 - Print, submit, and signature buttons
4. Multimedia
- 21 - Audio and video in PDF
- 22 - Sound and video buttons
- 23 - Linking to video on a web server
5. Advanced Techniques
- 24 - Hiding and showing content with buttons
- 25 - Adding finishing touches in Acrobat
- 26 - JavaScript for turning off highlighting
- 27 - Swapping out pages to avoid extra work
- 28 - Full-screen page transitions
- 29 - Duplicate buttons for smaller file size
- 30 - Working with animations and Flash
Conclusion
- 31 - Next steps