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• • November 18, 2010 at 1:29 pm #57809
    tonjekarlsen

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    Hi. Can you add effects to PDFs? Or Indesign? Im thinking about things like page-turning effects, make the PDF more real – if u know what i mean. When the corner of the page is getting that “flip” you can use to turn the page – for instance.

    The reason i am asking, is cause im making a portfolio for my website. And i am displaying my prosjects as pdfs. Its getting very dull and boring, i need something interactive-effects for it. For instance: Im going to have display some pages from a book i've made, in my portfolio. How can i make that pdf-book more interesting if i dont have the possibility to take photographs of the book in real life? (which is the thing i really want to do – but cant)

    Hope you guys know some tricks!

  • November 19, 2010 at 12:23 am #57814
    Roland

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    You could export to SWF with the page curl turned on, and place that SWF into InDesign to export as a PDF. The SWF should retain its interactivity although I'm not sure how well the page curl will work as it seems to require quite some space on web pages. Also, it doesn't have a pre-loader animation as Adobe hasn't added the option, so if the SWF gets big and people don't have to download the file, it can take a long time (depending on how big the SWF file is and the speed of your host and their internet connection) before anything appears to be happening.

  • November 19, 2010 at 6:22 am #57816
    jpannier

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    I would suggest to pimp the PDF using buttons, multi state objects (CS5) and maybe short videos (you explaining a project). I agree with Roland – the page curl effect is good for flash based stuff but to big for a real PDF. If you want to add flash animation (e. g. an object flies on to page and does some fancy curves) you can embed short swf files into the InDesign document (after you created them with ID CS5).

    Another idea; did you thought about creating an Acrobat PDF Portfolio – this special PDF opportunity to bundle several single PDF docs in one PDF? You can select different appearances – like a kind of a flash typical show wheel.

  • November 19, 2010 at 6:29 am #57817
    tonjekarlsen

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    Thanks for your postings!

    I kinda thought about effects like this pdf: https://np.netpublicator.com/?i…..=n71492741

    Is there any way to achieve something like this, without using applications on the web (like netpublicator)?

    I dont really like the example so much, but now u have the idea of what I´m looking for… :)

  • November 19, 2010 at 6:53 am #57819
    jpannier

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    Ok. I see.

    With pure ID you will not come as far as this example. You can create the pure flash content (e. g. https://www.synp.net/fileadmin/…..No-06.html) but without this framework around which lets you zoom in. Therefore you have to use a plug-in. I’m just missing the name for it.

  • November 19, 2010 at 6:58 am #57820
    tonjekarlsen

    Member

    OK! Thanks! :)

    I´ll see if I can find any plugins!

  • November 19, 2010 at 7:53 am #57821
    jpannier

    Member

    now I remember, David wrote something about it:

    https://creativepro.com/add…..-files.php

  • August 7, 2012 at 12:14 am #62785
    brightshine

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    Sad in using Indesign and codes. I convert PDF to page flipping files via this tool: https://bit.ly/yEF9b1.

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