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InDesign: Interactive PDFs

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to make interactive PDFs with Adobe InDesign. Find out how to build interactive forms, media-rich presentations, animated ebooks, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What is an interactive PDF?
  • Limitations of interactive PDFs
  • Exercise files
  • What you should know before starting this course
1. Interactive PDF Essentials
  • Creating your workspace
  • Building a new interactive document
  • Previewing interactive PDFs
  • Exporting basic interactive PDFs
  • Exporting rich interactive PDFs
2. Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, and Buttons
  • Hyperlink fundamentals
  • Page and anchor hyperlinks
  • Setting and editing hyperlink destinations
  • Creating bookmarks automatically
  • Manually creating and editing bookmarks
  • Understanding buttons
  • Setting button rollover states
3. Interactive Forms
  • Adding text and list fields
  • Checkboxes and radio buttons
  • Print, submit, and signature buttons
4. Multimedia
  • Audio and video in PDF
  • Sound and video buttons
  • Linking to video on a web server
5. Advanced Techniques
  • Hiding and showing content with buttons
  • Adding finishing touches in Acrobat
  • JavaScript for turning off highlighting
  • Swapping out pages to avoid extra work
  • Full-screen page transitions
  • Duplicate buttons for smaller file size
  • Working with animations and Flash
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David Blatner

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