Lynda- InDesign CC: Interactive Document Fundamentals

InDesign CC: Interactive Document Fundamentals

3h 24m Intermediate Jul 09, 2013 Updated Mar 11, 2014

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Using the powerful toolset in Adobe InDesign CC, you can create a variety of interactive documents: PDFs, ebooks, magazines, forms, and more. In this course, publishing expert Mike Rankin offers a foundation for designing engaging interactive documents and explores what's possible with each kind of document, so that you'll know which type suits the needs of your projects. Learn the basics of buttons, form objects, and other interactive objects, as well as techniques for setting up structured navigation. Next, tour the Digital Publishing Suite, a service for publishing InDesign documents to mobile devices, including the iPad, and take a look at some sample interactive document design workflows. Lastly, find out how to customize InDesign for working with interactive documents.
Topics include:

Overview of interactive document types
Enhancing a project with interactive objects
Setting up hyperlinks, page transitions, and a table of contents
Understanding media formats
Adding HTML animations
Manage folios with the Folio Producer
Creating EPUBs
Adapting a page layout for mobile devices with Liquid Layout
Changing page designs with primary text frames
Formatting text with text style mapping
Workflows for designing interactive documents
Customizing the workspace
Organizing content with layers
Using third-party scripts to work on interactive documents