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InDesign: Interactive PDFs

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Provider

LinkedIn Learning
Pricing

Free Trial Available
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Duration & workload

2 hours 28 minutes
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

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Overview

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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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