Reply To: Please help! interactive pdf problem!

Well, I have to respectfully disagree with you, Justin. Interactive PDF is extremely useful in a wide variety of circumstances. Your headline is wonderful clickbait, but it’s not entirely true.

I mean, yes, a lot of Interactive PDF stuff is broken (audio, video, buttons…) and there’s a bunch of stuff that never worked to start with (animations, multi-state objects, etc.)… BUT there are some things that work fine: hyperlinks, bookmarks, and — most importantly — FORMS! If you need to make an interactive form, Interactive PDF is the way to go.

Note to readers: Justin’s company, Ajar Productions, is a sponsor of CreativePro… but more importantly, they make a truly awesome tool called in5, which lets you export HTML from InDesign. I love it! And everyone should know about it. And it is a good replacement for Interactive PDF in some situations. But PDF is still better for some things. :-)