Reply To: Please help! interactive pdf problem!

Hi David,

Love you and I respectfully disagree right back. ;-)

I’m not claiming that PDF is dead as a format. I use it everyday. It’s wonderful.

I’m claiming that the *interactive* part is dead.

To me, hyperlinks (and bookmarks, which are just a special case of hyperlinks) are not enough to call something “interactive.” People expect so much more out of that word and certainly when exporting with InDesign’s capabilities.

A PDF with hyperlinks is just a PDF to me. Word Documents have hyperlinks, but we don’t call them “Interactive Word Documents.” It sounds silly because we just expect that a rich text format can have hyperlinks.

The forms are great, but they don’t work in all readers either. It’s much safer to go with an online service like DocuSign (or similar) if you want to ensure your forms will work for everyone.