Reply To: Please help! interactive pdf problem!

Yes, PDF is alive and well.

My claim is that “Interactive PDF” (and only Interactive PDF) is dead by virtue of not being interactive. This happened in multiple ways, 1) The loss of Flash, 2) the proliferation of non-Adobe readers (which is good for PDF in general, but bad for interactive PDF), and 3) not supporting many of the interactive features from InDesign in the first place (animation, MSOs, etc).

PDFs are arguably viewed on screens now more than printed, so PDFs certainly have life on screen.

Long live PDF…only let’s not pretend it’s interactive…because it confuses people when the export from InDesign and send files to clients. :-)

So I stand by the title, I don’t believe it’s a bait-and-switch. The entire articles works support the claim in the title.

The standard of the article uses “dead” as “no longer useful in the way it’s defined” (the way “dead” in software is synonymous with “broken” and “unmaintained”) rather than “non-existent.”