Reply To: InDesign Interactive… Yes – No?

PDF is not dead. But Flash is dying pretty rapidly. There is no doubt that HTML5 is the future, but it’s not really there yet for most distribution models. It may take the form of EPUB3 at some point, but that’s not clear. DPS does a lot, isn’t necessarily the answer either. For example, none of the animation features in InDesign currently work with DPS. They do work with App Studio (which is now owned by Quark, but they’ve given up demanding that people use QX, and now they’re happy to support ID users).

If it feels like there are no good answers, that’s only because that is correct. But no, PDF isn’t a waste; it’s just that PDF used to be good for every device, and now it’s not. Currently there is no file format that works everywhere. Big sigh.