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• • October 21, 2010 at 3:01 am #57442
    brownaldo

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    Hi

    We publish a quarterly magazine for a client in England. Due to the recent budget cuts they can no longer afford to print the magazine and wish for an Interactive PDF instead. They pretty much admit they don't know much about Interactivity in PDFs and are leaving it to us. I suspect this will be the start of many such requests from our various clients…

    The extent of Interactivity in PDFs we have worked on are just working hyperlinks, mailto commands and some form fields.

    Can anyone suggest a good place to start with reasearching Interactive PDFs. I've found various topics on buttons on this site that look like they will be very useful.

    If anyone could direct me to some well put together actaul PDF examples that would be great too.

    I love the Indesign magazine app for the iPad but presumably this level of functionality cannot be replicated in a PDF.

    Thanks for your time

    Rob

  • October 21, 2010 at 9:36 am #57443
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    Have you looked at Michael Ninness' title over at Lynda.com, “Interactive Documents and Presentations”?

    https://www.lynda.com/home/Disp…..lpk2=48367

    He has lots of examples of interactive publications there, and of course he teaches how you can create them yourself. It's mostly InDesign CS4, with some Acrobat 9 and Flash CS4 stuff in there. Though it may be out of date for you if you have CS5, there is still alot that is the same. I believe Fritz (our contributor) just finished recording an update for that title, using CS5, at lynda.com. Not sure when it'll be out.

    Also I've always been partial to Michael Murphy's videocast he did a few years ago where he created a beautiful PDF with movies from his vacation in Europe. It's from 2007, but it's still worth watching:

    https://www.theindesigner.com/b…..ular-video

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