InDesign: Interactive PDFs

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

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