Share Description
In this course, you will learn:
- How to make them yourself with Adobe InDesign and Acrobat.
- To take a new or existing PDF and add links and bookmarks; create buttons that play media, send an email, and submit data; build forms with intelligent fields; and embed audio and video.
- How to add polish with page transitions and animation, and reduce the file size of your PDF so it's easier to share.
Syllabus:
- 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
