1. The Ten ThingsSetting up an interactive document| 00:06 | Let's create a new interactive document.
I'll go to the New Document dialog box
| | 00:10 | and now the very first thing you need
to ask yourself is, do I want portrait or landscape?
| | 00:14 | That is, do I want my document
taller than it is wide or wider than it is tall?
| | 00:21 | The decision depends largely on how
likely it is that your audience will view
| | 00:25 | it on screen or will print it. If you
think your audience will play with the
| | 00:29 | interactivity a little bit and then
just go ahead and print it, then you should
| | 00:33 | set your document up for print, that is Portrait.
| | 00:36 | On the other hand if you're expecting
them primarily to view it on screen, then
| | 00:41 | match that document to
the screen and go landscape.
| | 00:44 | The next choice has to do with the
Page Size. Now most interactive designers
| | 00:49 | think in pixels, but InDesign doesn't
offer pixels, however it does offer points.
| | 00:55 | And because interactive documents
typically assume a standard resolution of 72 dpi
| | 00:59 | and because there are 72 points
per inch, then points and pixels are
| | 01:05 | identical in interactive documents.
| | 01:07 | For example, if I want let's say, an
800X600 document, I can come over here and
| | 01:13 | just type in 800 points wide. Now I will
hit Tab to go to the Height and do 600 points.
| | 01:21 | Now notice that it's doing the
conversion from points into picas.
| | 01:25 | That's just because in my default installation of
InDesign it's set up to picas.
| | 01:29 | You can change that in the Preferences dialog
box to points and then you'll be seeing
| | 01:33 | the points instead of picas.
| | 01:35 | Now you may have noticed that when I
type that in, InDesign automatically shows
| | 01:39 | the value 800X600, out of the Page Size
pop-up menu. If I click on that pop-up menu
| | 01:44 | you can see that, that option was
actually already there inside the pop-up menu.
| | 01:48 | There's a bunch of presets in
here that you can choose from including the
| | 01:52 | 640X480 or a little larger the 1024X768.
It's completely up to you.
| | 01:56 | You can choose any of these. In fact, if
you're making a document
| | 02:00 | that will be both read on screen and for
print then there's
| | 02:05 | a reasonably good chance that you
would want to choose either Letter or A4.
| | 02:09 | Both the Letter and A4 set landscape
match screen size reasonably well. For
| | 02:14 | example, in InDesign Magazine, that's
a magazine that I'm Editorial Director
| | 02:18 | for, we just use Letter size instead of
Landscape because we expect that people
| | 02:23 | will mostly view it on screen.
| | 02:25 | But every now and again, they will want
to print out an article. Finally, let's
| | 02:29 | take a look at some of these other
options. We definitely don't need Facing
| | 02:33 | Pages for making an interactive document
and we probably don't need Margins either.
| | 02:38 | Although I find it useful to have a
little bit of Margin on each side, just to
| | 02:42 | set a little bit of an offset so I can see
and don't put stuff too close to the edge.
| | 02:46 | But that's completely up to you. If we
click on More Options we see the Bleed
| | 02:50 | and Slug guides but that we definitely
don't need in an interactive document,
| | 02:55 | that's just for print.
| | 02:56 | So I'll click OK and now that we've set
up the page, it's time to start adding
| | 03:01 | backgrounds, text images and interactive
elements such as buttons, movies and sounds.
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| Creating unnamed hyperlinks| 00:00 | Here is a tip involving Hyperlinks, that
I learned the hard way. Reserve your
| | 00:10 | shared Hyperlinks for when you really
need them. Here, let me show you what I mean.
| | 00:15 | This is an issue of InDesign Magazine
that I helped to layout. There are some
| | 00:19 | Hyperlinks that I use all of the time,
such as this one down here. I will go
| | 00:23 | ahead and select that and zoom into 200%
with Command+2 or Ctrl+2 on Windows,
| | 00:28 | and this is a Hyperlink, I use all the time
because it brings the reader back to the website.
| | 00:33 | Now because I use this Hyperlink a lot,
I want to make it a named destination,
| | 00:38 | that way it will show up in my
Hyperlinks URL pop-up menu. Let's go ahead and
| | 00:43 | look in here. Wow, there are a lot of
name destinations in here and what's
| | 00:48 | really annoying is that I don't use
most of these most of the time. Most of
| | 00:52 | these are just one-off Hyperlinks.
| | 00:54 | Well, why are they in here? Well,
here is the problem. Usually when we make
| | 01:00 | Hyperlinks, we just select the link
and maybe copy it to the clipboard with
| | 01:04 | Command+C or Ctrl+C, come up to the
Hyperlinks Field here, and just paste it
| | 01:08 | in. You hit Enter and you get a
Hyperlink. It adds it to the Hyperlinks panel,
| | 01:14 | and it adds it to the list here.
| | 01:17 | That is really annoying, because you
get lots and lots and lots of Hyperlinks,
| | 01:21 | and then the next issue rolls around
and we take out all the content and we use
| | 01:26 | the file as a template for the
next issue, of course all those named
| | 01:29 | destinations, all those Hyperlinks are
still there. So the list gets longer and
| | 01:33 | longer and longer. Very
frustrating, very inefficient.
| | 01:37 | So let me show you a more efficient,
more productive way to work. First I am
| | 01:41 | going to do undo that with a Command+Z
or Ctrl+Z on Windows, and I am going to
| | 01:45 | get rid of all of these shared destinations,
whatever you want to call them in this pop-up menu.
| | 01:50 | So I'll go to the fly out menu, in
the Hyperlinks panel, and I am going to
| | 01:54 | choose Hyperlink Destination Options.
I am going to change the options of the
| | 01:59 | destinations, and the change that I am
going to make is to delete all of them.
| | 02:03 | I'll just click on the Delete All
button, click OK. And now there is nothing
| | 02:08 | here, see that little pop-up menu is
grayed out. This Hyperlink that I pasted
| | 02:11 | in here is still there
however, so that's not a problem.
| | 02:15 | I'll go ahead and type http:// before
it to make it a proper Hyperlink, good,
| | 02:21 | and now this case, I am going to
hit Enter, I am going to add it to the
| | 02:25 | Hyperlinks panel, and I am going to
make it a named shared destination, and I
| | 02:30 | am doing that because I know that I'll be
using this more than once in this document.
| | 02:34 | Now note that not only did it make it
a named or shared destination, it also
| | 02:39 | added this really ugly black
rectangular around the text. So, I don't like
| | 02:43 | that, I am going to get rid of it, by
double-clicking on the Hyperlink, and
| | 02:46 | changing the Appearance to Invisible
Rectangle. That's just much more pleasant
| | 02:51 | in the final document.
| | 02:52 | But look at this, you can see that this
is a shared destination, this link that
| | 02:56 | we just made. So that's great, in this
case it's great. So let's go ahead and
| | 03:00 | click OK. Now let's look at a
case where we want to make an unnamed
| | 03:04 | destination. I am going to press Command+J
or Ctrl+J on Windows, go to Page 45,
| | 03:09 | press Enter okay, here is the good one,
extensis this is a one of Hyperlink.
| | 03:15 | We are just doing this one Hyperlink,
we are not going to be using this link in
| | 03:19 | a bunch of places in the document,
just in this one place we want to link
| | 03:22 | people to their website.
| | 03:24 | So I am not going to type it up here in
the URL field, that would make a named
| | 03:30 | shared destination. Instead I am going
to click on the New Hyperlink button,
| | 03:36 | alright? And I am not going to make it
a shared destination. So I'd take it off
| | 03:40 | of Share Destination, and put it onto
URL. I'll choose URL from the Link To
| | 03:45 | pop-up menu, and now I am going to
paste that link into the URL field here.
| | 03:52 | That's very different than pasting it
into the URL field in the panel, because
| | 03:58 | here we have a check-box, we have a
choice, we can choose whether to make it
| | 04:03 | shared, or not shared. I really wish
this check-box were out here in the panel,
| | 04:08 | but it's not, it's only
inside the dialog box here.
| | 04:11 | So I am going to make an unnamed
Hyperlink. I am checking to make sure it's
| | 04:15 | still Invisible, that's good. I'll
click OK, and you can see that yes, indeed
| | 04:19 | it does show up here in the Hyperlinks
panel, and it does link to it on the page.
| | 04:25 | But if I later need to make another
link it does not show up here in this
| | 04:30 | panel. The text is still in here just
because that was the last URL I used, but
| | 04:35 | it does not show up in the pop-up menu.
Believe me that's cleaner, that's faster,
| | 04:39 | and that's definitely more efficient.
| | 04:40 | Adding a Hyperlinks to a document is
often one of the last things you'll do,
| | 04:44 | just before that final, final deadline.
So it's got to be efficient. Adding
| | 04:49 | lots of name to shared destinations is
bound to mess you up, instead stick to
| | 04:54 | local unnamed Hyperlinks, unless
you are really going to use that same
| | 04:58 | destination more than a few times.
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| Creating a go-to-page link| 00:05 | There are several different ways to
make Hyperlinks that take you to a
| | 00:09 | particular page, or some text on a page.
For example, here we are looking at a
| | 00:14 | table of contents for InDesign
Magazine, and I want to make each of these
| | 00:18 | headings a Hyperlink to a particular page.
| | 00:21 | Well, because of the particular format
of this page, we cannot automate it with
| | 00:25 | the table of contents or the cross
references feature, and that's too bad,
| | 00:28 | because both of those features make the
Hyperlinks for you. So instead, we are
| | 00:33 | going to have to make the
links the hard way, one at a time.
| | 00:37 | I am going to select this text down
here by triple-clicking on it, and then
| | 00:40 | pressing Command+2 or Ctrl+2 on
Windows to jump into 200%. Now I am going to
| | 00:45 | show you two different ways to make this kind
of link. Both of them use the Hyperlinks panel.
| | 00:50 | So I'll open the Hyperlinks Panel,
I'll select New Hyperlink from the Panel
| | 00:55 | menu, and I'll choose not URL, not file,
but page. This is going to be a page link.
| | 01:02 | And I can specify exactly what
page this text is going to be linking to.
| | 01:07 | Let me move this out of the way a
little bit, so we can see that
| | 01:10 | this is going to link to page 32.
| | 01:12 | So I'll simply type 32 up here in the
Page field, and now I can choose a Zoom Setting.
| | 01:17 | For example, it can be Fixed, or Fit the whole page in the Window and so on.
| | 01:22 | This is relevant for PDFs that
I export, it's not relevant if I export
| | 01:27 | this as a SWF file. SWFs just
ignore that, but it does work in a PDF.
| | 01:32 | Anyway, this is going to go to page 32
in my document. I'll click OK, and I can
| | 01:37 | see that the page Hyperlink has
been added to the Hyperlinks panel.
| | 01:40 | Now if I export this as a PDF and click
on that text, it will take me directly
| | 01:44 | to page 32, but there is a
significant problem here. What if that article
| | 01:49 | changes, what if I add pages or move
pages around in my document, that article
| | 01:54 | might not be on page 32 anymore.
These Hyperlinks do not get updated
| | 01:58 | automatically. So I would have to go in
there and edit each of these Hyperlinks
| | 02:02 | to make sure it's on the right page.
| | 02:04 | Fortunately, there is a different kind
of link that will update automatically,
| | 02:08 | depending on where the article actually is.
| | 02:11 | To make that kind of link, I need to go
to the article itself first, and add a
| | 02:15 | text anchor there. So because I've
already made this Hyperlink, I can use that
| | 02:20 | as a little navigation trick. I am
going to select that, and then click on this
| | 02:23 | right arrow at the bottom, that will
actually take me to that page in this
| | 02:27 | document automatically. It's kind of
handy these left and right arrows, the
| | 02:31 | left one goes to the original parts I
think that is linking, and the right
| | 02:36 | arrow goes to what it's linking to, so
finally a little navigation trick there.
| | 02:39 | I am going to scroll over here with
my Option+Space Bar or Alt+Space Bar,
| | 02:43 | grabber-hand trick, and I am going to
place the cursor at the beginning of this title.
| | 02:48 | Now I want to put a text anchor
here, that I am going to be linking to.
| | 02:52 | It has to go inside of a text frame.
| | 02:55 | So to do that I'll go to the
Hyperlinks panel, and I'll choose not
| | 02:59 | New Hyperlink, but New Hyperlink
Destination. I wish they called this a new
| | 03:04 | text anchor or something, it'd be easier to
find. But in this case we have to say,
| | 03:07 | New Hyperlink Destination, and then we
choose a type of destination, in this
| | 03:13 | case I am choosing Text Anchor. You
can call it anything you want, I am going
| | 03:17 | to call it My conditional text article,
since that what's happens, actually
| | 03:22 | it's not {{Pariah's}} but it's a great
article, you should check it out.
| | 03:25 | So let me go ahead and click OK, and
I am going to go back to the table of contents
| | 03:30 | which I can do by choosing
this Hyperlink in the Hyperlinks panel,
| | 03:34 | clicking on the left arrow, that will
take me right back to that page. Again,
| | 03:39 | a little navigation trick there using
the Hyperlinks panel, and I am going to
| | 03:43 | delete this Hyperlink, because I don't
want a page Hyperlink anymore. So I will
| | 03:46 | just select it and click on my little
Trashcan icon. Yes, let's get rid of it.
| | 03:50 | So it's completely gone
now. The Hyperlink is gone.
| | 03:54 | So now let's add a new Hyperlink.
This time it's going to be a Text Anchor
| | 03:59 | Hyperlink. I'll choose New Hyperlink
from the Panel menu, and I won't choose a
| | 04:02 | Page link, instead I am going to make
it a Text Anchor link, and now I can
| | 04:07 | choose which text anchor I want to
choose here. There is only one text anchor
| | 04:11 | in this document right now. So
obviously that's the one that's going to be
| | 04:13 | chosen in that pop-up menu. I'll
make sure that my Appearance is set to
| | 04:17 | Invisible Rectangle, because I don't
want an ugly rectangle around the text on
| | 04:21 | my page, and then I'll click OK.
| | 04:24 | I'll click inside that paragraph, and
there we go. I now have a Hyperlink, here
| | 04:28 | in the Hyperlinks panel, that will
take me right to that article, no matter
| | 04:32 | where that article is in the document.
Let's try it out. I'll click on the
| | 04:36 | Go To Page button, that right arrow,
and you see, it takes me right to that article.
| | 04:39 | And again, this will work in the
exported PDF or in an exported SWF file, either way.
| | 04:45 | By the way, if I go to the Type menu,
and choose Show Hidden Characters, we can
| | 04:50 | see that text anchor in here, it's
those two little dots, or I can go to the
| | 04:55 | Edit menu, and choose Edit in Story
Editor. And in Story Editor I can actually
| | 04:59 | see that text anchor right here,
it's that little icon that looks like a
| | 05:02 | target. So that's what that this.
| | 05:05 | Now both Page Hyperlinks and Text
Anchor Hyperlinks are useful, but when it
| | 05:09 | comes to linking to some text that may
move to a different page, well, the Text
| | 05:13 | Anchor Hyperlink is
definitely the better choice.
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| Breaking up bullets into multistep slides| 00:07 | Many people choose to build their
presentations in InDesign, rather than
| | 00:10 | something like PowerPoint, because of
InDesign's high-end design and typography
| | 00:14 | features. But there are plenty of
interactive features that PowerPoint or
| | 00:18 | Keynote have that InDesign does not.
| | 00:21 | For example, allowing you to see a
slide's bullet points one at a time, you know,
| | 00:26 | one bullet point per click. Well,
InDesign can do it but it just takes a little
| | 00:30 | more work. Here, let me show you. I'm
going to open up the Pages panel, in
| | 00:35 | fact, I'm just going to pull the Pages
panel out here, so we can work with it a
| | 00:38 | little bit more easily and I'm going to duplicate
this page four times, one for each bullet point.
| | 00:45 | I can duplicate a page, by holding
down the Option key or Alt key on Windows
| | 00:49 | and dragging it in the Pages panel.
That creates an exact duplicate or clone of
| | 00:54 | that page. Now, I'll duplicate it
again and again and one more time and now I
| | 00:59 | have one additional page for each
bullet point. Let's go back to page 1. On
| | 01:05 | page 1, we don't want any bullets, so
I'm just going to delete that text frame.
| | 01:09 | I'll double click on page 2 to go
there and on page 2, I'm going to double click
| | 01:14 | here to switch to the Type Tool and then I
will delete the last three bullets.
| | 01:18 | You can see where this is
going. It's not pretty, but it does work.
| | 01:23 | On page 3, I'm going to delete these
two, on page 4 I'm going to delete just
| | 01:27 | the last one, and page 5, I'll leave it
alone. Basically, you need to think of
| | 01:32 | each page in your InDesign
document as a different state, or different
| | 01:35 | transition in your presentation. Each
click in the presentation, requires a
| | 01:40 | different page in InDesign. Now that I
have set up my pages properly, I'm going
| | 01:45 | to go to the Page Transitions panel and
add my transitions from one page to the next.
| | 01:50 | In the Pages panel, I'll select all of
the pages that I want to affect, in this
| | 01:54 | case, I'll click on the first page and
then Shift+click on the last page,
| | 01:57 | that selects just those pages. And then
I'm going to choose a Transition, you can
| | 02:01 | choose any of these Transitions that
you want, but I'm going to choose Wipe,
| | 02:04 | I kind of like that for bullets. I'm
going to say Wipe to the Right. To get a
| | 02:08 | preview of this, I simply place my
cursor over the little movie at the top here
| | 02:13 | and you can see that it's going
to wipe from the left to the right.
| | 02:16 | You can choose your speed, from the
Speed pop-up menu, either Medium or Fast
| | 02:20 | usually works pretty well for bullets.
Now, we can try it out. I'll go to page 1
| | 02:24 | and then I'm going to press Shift+
Page Down to go from one page to the next.
| | 02:29 | You see the change going from one page
to the next by using that keyboard shortcut,
| | 02:33 | but you don't actually see the true
transition, the Wipe effect that we've applied.
| | 02:37 | To do that, you need to export it as
a PDF or a SWF file,
| | 02:42 | either PDF or SWF will work.
Let's go ahead and do that.
| | 02:45 | I'll press Command+E or Ctrl+E on
Windows to get to the Export dialog box and
| | 02:51 | I will name it, and choose the presentation
mode that I want to export to. In this case,
| | 02:55 | I'm going to choose PDF, and then click
Save. When you are making a presentation,
| | 02:59 | you want to make sure that
Interactive Elements is turned on.
| | 03:04 | I'm also going to View the PDF
after Exporting, so it will just open it
| | 03:07 | automatically for me. I'll click Export, and it
will save the file to disk, and open it in Acrobat.
| | 03:12 | Now, Acrobat will only show the page
transitions when you're in Full Screen Mode.
| | 03:17 | So I'll go into Full Screen Mode by pressing
Command+L or Ctrl+L on Windows.
| | 03:21 | Now let's try it out. I'll click the button
and I get my first bullet point.
| | 03:26 | You can also use the left or right arrows
in Acrobat to move from one page to the next.
| | 03:30 | I'm pressing the right arrow and you can
see it's adding the bullet points.
| | 03:36 | To jump out of Full Screen Mode in
Acrobat, I just press the Esc key.
| | 03:40 | As I said earlier, this trick also works
if you're making SWF presentations.
| | 03:44 | You just need to export it as a SWF instead of
a PDF. InDesign can make presentations
| | 03:49 | look very pretty, but you sometimes
have to go through some extra steps to make
| | 03:53 | a presentation function the way you want.
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| Fixing typos with Replace Pages| 00:06 | When it comes to interactive
documents, you just can't do everything in
| | 00:10 | InDesign. Sometimes you need to rely on the
interactive document features of Acrobat Pro.
| | 00:16 | For example, in this PDF I laid out
the background image, the text, even this
| | 00:21 | movie in InDesign. For example, I can
click on here, this movie and actually
| | 00:25 | see the movie play. But when it
came time to do these other Interactive
| | 00:29 | Elements, like these radio buttons
over here or the text field entries down
| | 00:34 | here that I can click in and then
start typing my name. Well, all of that had
| | 00:38 | to be done in Acrobat Pro because
InDesign doesn't offer any sorts of tools for
| | 00:43 | creating form fields, that's a real hassle.
| | 00:46 | And it's even a bigger hassle because
as soon as you've finished this kind of
| | 00:49 | PDF, you know that your art director
or your client is going to come in and
| | 00:52 | say, this zip code is wrong or can you
change this text, or that background or
| | 00:57 | whatever. And that's a hassle because
you would to go back to InDesign, you
| | 01:01 | would make the change, export it and
then you would have to redo all of these
| | 01:04 | interactive fields, right? Wrong,
because InDesign let's you export a flattened
| | 01:10 | version without the interactive and
Acrobat let's you import that flat version
| | 01:15 | without affecting any of these
interactive features. Let me show you what I mean.
| | 01:20 | I'm going to switch back to InDesign
here and make that change, for example,
| | 01:25 | I'll switch over to the Type Tool and
I'll type a different zip code in here,
| | 01:28 | 98101 let's say. May be I'll come up
here and change this to a capital P, just
| | 01:33 | make whatever changes I want and may
be I'll move this over here. I'm just
| | 01:36 | moving this around a little bit, just to
show you that I am making changes in InDesign.
| | 01:41 | Now, I'm going to export that out as a
PDF. So I'll press Command+E or Ctrl+E
| | 01:45 | on Windows, and I'll come out to the
Export dialog box here, and I'm going to
| | 01:50 | simply Save this, it could have the
same name or a different name, it doesn't
| | 01:53 | matter. In this case, I'm going to
turn off my Interactive Elements check box
| | 01:57 | and I don't need any of these, the
Bookmarks, the Hyperlinks. I don't need
| | 02:00 | these check boxes turned on in this
case at all. I'm going to Export this out
| | 02:05 | to the Desktop, and I'll switch back to Acrobat.
| | 02:07 | If I open this PDF in Acrobat, I can
see that all the interactive features are
| | 02:11 | missing. The movie is gone, if I had
any buttons on here, they would be gone,
| | 02:15 | the Hyperlinks will be gone, etcetera.
But what is here is the changes to the
| | 02:19 | zip code, their logo, and this capital P.
I'm going to go ahead and close that
| | 02:24 | PDF, I don't really need it open, I
just wanted to show it to you. And instead
| | 02:28 | I'm going to go to the Document menu
and choose Replace Pages. This is the key
| | 02:34 | to this whole technique,
the Replace Pages feature.
| | 02:37 | I'll choose the PDF that I just
exported, the one where the typos were fixed,
| | 02:41 | and I'll choose Select. In this case,
it's only a single document, so it's very
| | 02:44 | easy to choose here. I'm going to
Replace Page 1, With Page 1, simple as that.
| | 02:49 | Click OK, and it says, Are you sure?
Yes, I'm absolutely sure, click OK. And
| | 02:54 | you can see that it took out the
background of the old PDF and I put in the new
| | 03:00 | background. So the logo was updated,
the zip code is updated, and this capital
| | 03:04 | P is updated. But the Interactive
Elements here, these radio buttons, and the
| | 03:09 | fields, and so on are all still
there and the movie still plays.
| | 03:14 | Because Replace Pages leaves all those
Interactive Elements intact, you know
| | 03:18 | the movie, sound, form fields, buttons,
and so on, we don't have to rebuild
| | 03:22 | that stuff again. And when you're
working against a deadline, knowing these
| | 03:26 | kinds of tricks can really help lower your
blood pressure and get the job done in time.
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| Taking advantage of sample buttons| 00:00 | Look, maybe you're a great artist and
designer, but me, I am just a production
| | 00:10 | guy. I can barely design my way out
of a paper bag. If I had to make my own
| | 00:15 | interactive buttons from scratch, they
would probably look really dorky. So I
| | 00:19 | was really happy to hear that Adobe
would ship a bunch of nice looking buttons
| | 00:22 | with InDesign. Unfortunately, they
hid them so well that most users never
| | 00:27 | even see them. But for you, this one
time only, I will let you in on the
| | 00:32 | secret. Where to find the
super-secret Sample Buttons library?
| | 00:37 | The first place you can find that
Sample Buttons library is to go to the
| | 00:40 | Workspaces pop-up menu up in the
Application bar and choose Interactivity. When
| | 00:46 | you choose Interactivity, you get, voila, the
Sample Buttons library right here in the panel dock.
| | 00:53 | Now this kind of panel is a little
bit different than the other panels. The
| | 00:56 | other panels are basically features
inside of InDesign. This Sample Buttons
| | 01:00 | library is a library, it's a plain old
library file that ships with InDesign
| | 01:05 | and they simply put it inside the dock
here, so it'd be easier to find. I'll
| | 01:09 | close that again by clicking on this
little button here, and I am going to open
| | 01:13 | up the Buttons panel.
| | 01:14 | In fact I'm going to drag this Buttons
panel out, because I'll be needing that
| | 01:17 | in just a moment. But I just want to
show you that inside the Buttons panel
| | 01:20 | fly-out menu, there is in fact
another way to get to that same library by
| | 01:25 | choosing Sample Buttons. So there we go,
even if we weren't in Interactivity
| | 01:29 | mode, I can still get to the
Sample Buttons from that fly-out menu.
| | 01:33 | And a third way that you can get to
Sample Buttons, this is really complicated.
| | 01:37 | You go to the Window menu, and choose
Sample Buttons. It's as easy as that.
| | 01:41 | Just choose Sample Buttons. I could not
believe that Sample Buttons was hiding
| | 01:45 | there in the Window menu. I was using
InDesign for a month or two before I
| | 01:49 | noticed that it was down there
at the bottom of that Window menu.
| | 01:51 | But however you open the Sample
Buttons library, you do want to open it
| | 01:55 | because there are some really good
buttons in here that you can use. For
| | 01:58 | example, I am going to grab these two
little arrows down here. I would click on
| | 02:01 | number 39 and Shift+click on 40 to
select both of those, and I'll just drag
| | 02:06 | these out on to my page. There we go,
and you can see that by dragging them
| | 02:10 | down, I just pulled them out of the
library and put them on to my document page.
| | 02:14 | Now I'll go ahead and close that
panel and we can see that these are just
| | 02:18 | normal InDesign objects. If I put them
on a document page instead of a master
| | 02:21 | page, so why don't I cut those out with
a Command+X or a Ctrl+X on Windows and
| | 02:26 | I'll jump over to master page A with a
Command+J or Ctrl+J on Windows. Press A,
| | 02:32 | and OK. And now why don't I go to the
Edit menu and choose Paste in Place, and
| | 02:36 | then we're going to paste it exactly in
the same location as they were originally.
| | 02:41 | You know that they are kind of small
right now. So why don't we make them a
| | 02:43 | little bit bigger, about 200% size,
there we go. I'll zoom in to 200% size as
| | 02:48 | well with a Command+2 or Ctrl+2 on
Windows, just so we can really see them on
| | 02:52 | the page and I can position them
precisely. Now each one of these as I
| | 02:56 | mentioned is a normal InDesign object.
You can edit it, you can change it's
| | 03:00 | shape, you can change it's effects.
Right now if I go to the Effects panel, we
| | 03:04 | can see that indeed there is an effect
applied to this. If I double-click on
| | 03:08 | this little fx icon, we can see that
it has a Satin effect applied to it. So
| | 03:13 | that's why we get that kind of satiny look here.
| | 03:15 | I could choose Bevel and Emboss to
make it even more interesting. It's just
| | 03:19 | going to be a little bit too big for
this object though. How about just 1.5
| | 03:23 | points, and click OK. Now it has kind
of a Bevel and Emboss and Satin applied
| | 03:28 | to it. I'll do the same thing to this
object as well. Since, I want both of
| | 03:32 | these to look the same, give it a
Bevel and Emboss, make this a little bit
| | 03:35 | smaller, and it's good to go.
| | 03:37 | Now the other thing that's
interesting about these button objects from the
| | 03:40 | Sample Buttons library is that they
automatically have Actions applied to them.
| | 03:45 | I'll move this Buttons panel over here,
so we can see that this button here has
| | 03:49 | both a Normal and a Rollover state. If
I click on Rollover, you can see that
| | 03:54 | that's what it's going to look like
when it's in Rollover state. This is what
| | 03:56 | it's going to look like in Normal state.
| | 03:59 | You can see that there is Events applied,
so On Release, that is, when I let go
| | 04:03 | over the mouse button, On Release go to
the previous page, there we go. That's
| | 04:08 | exactly what I wanted it to do. Click
on this one and we can say On Release go
| | 04:12 | to the next page. So that's great. It
already has the features applied to it
| | 04:16 | automatically. Now I don't have to use
those. I could change that to any other
| | 04:20 | Action I want to in here. But in this
case I do want to go ahead and leave them
| | 04:24 | set to Go To Previous or Next page.
| | 04:26 | Let's zoom out to fit in window here
and do a Command+J or Ctrl+J on Windows.
| | 04:31 | Go back to page 2, we can see that,
there we go on page 2, I have got the
| | 04:35 | buttons. On page 3, I have got the
buttons, and so on. I just did a Shift+Page
| | 04:39 | Down there to move to the next page.
So I can see that those buttons because
| | 04:43 | they're on a master page show up on all
my document pages. Let's try them out.
| | 04:48 | I'll press Command E or Ctrl+E on
Windows. I am going to Export this as a PDF
| | 04:52 | file to test out our interactive PDF
features. Click Save. I am going to view
| | 04:57 | this after exporting, and I want to
make sure at I have Interactive Elements
| | 05:01 | turned on, that way I will actually
get the buttons I want. I am going to
| | 05:05 | change this to just pages 3 to 4
because I am just going to test this out
| | 05:09 | first. I don't need the entire
document, it will take too long.
| | 05:12 | I'll click Export, so it writes the
PDF to disc, and then it'll open it up in
| | 05:16 | Acrobat. Here it is with the buttons
and you can see that the Rollovers are
| | 05:20 | automatically applied to them. If I
click on this one, it takes me to the next
| | 05:24 | page, if I click on this one it takes
me to the previous page. So it works.
| | 05:28 | I am going to switch back to here in
InDesign, open my Sample Buttons library
| | 05:32 | and you know I really only have one
complaint about these buttons, and that is
| | 05:36 | they are not enough of them. I wish Adobe
would have given us even more to choose from.
| | 05:41 | Well, may be they will in InDesign CS5.
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| Streaming movies over the internet| 00:06 | Video files are big, sometimes really
big, so if you embed a few 100 MB movies
| | 00:11 | into your PDF, your PDF file is going
to get pretty huge. Now, let me offer you
| | 00:16 | a different option. If the person
looking at your PDF has a web access, you
| | 00:21 | could let them stream the movie across
the Internet instead. Let me show you how.
| | 00:25 | I'd like to place the movie right down
here in this blank space between these
| | 00:29 | frames. So I am going to choose the
regular Frame tool and just drag out at on
| | 00:33 | an area, doesn't matter what size,
right now. To turn this into a movie, I will
| | 00:38 | just go to the Object menu, choose
Interactive, and then choose Movie Options.
| | 00:43 | Now I was clever here and I copied the
URL to my clipboard for the movie that I
| | 00:47 | want to place in here. So I will click
on Specify a URL, select that, delete
| | 00:52 | it, and paste in the URL that I want to
use. And the next step is very important.
| | 00:57 | I am going to click on Verify URL
and Movie Size. InDesign literally goes
| | 01:03 | across the web, finds the file, grabs
it's name and how big it is and makes sure
| | 01:07 | that it can access it when it needs to.
The Poster is what is going to show up
| | 01:11 | in PDF while the movie is not playing
and in this case, I am going to Choose a
| | 01:15 | Movie Frame as the Poster itself.
| | 01:17 | The first frame of the movie is blank,
but you can see that as I drag this
| | 01:22 | little handle across, I get a
different image along the way and you can also
| | 01:26 | use your arrow keys to get just the right frame
you want. That looks pretty good. I will click
| | 01:31 | OK and it makes that my new Poster. I
will click OK and you can see that the
| | 01:36 | image is brought in to the frame.
| | 01:38 | Technically, I should say that the
movie has been placed inside a Movie Frame
| | 01:43 | which is place inside the graphic
frame that I drew. Because the image was
| | 01:47 | actually placed disproportionately, I
need to stretch it out to 100%. And I
| | 01:51 | will show you what I mean. I am going
to choose the Direct Selection tool and
| | 01:55 | click on the image and you can see
that the scaling was all messed up.
| | 01:59 | So I am going to have to set this
back to 100%. I now need to set the Movie
| | 02:03 | Frame to be the proper size, so I
will choose Object>Fitting>Fit Frame to
| | 02:08 | Content. The Movie Frame is the proper
size but now the Graphic Frame around it
| | 02:13 | is still the wrong size.
| | 02:15 | So I will switch back to Selection tool,
select the outside Graphic Frame and
| | 02:19 | do the same thing. Object>Fitting>Fit
Frame to Content. That's great. I now
| | 02:24 | have a Graphic Frame which is
containing the Movie Frame, which is containing
| | 02:27 | the movie itself, but the movie is
sitting out on a server on the web. And
| | 02:32 | there are all sorts of interesting
techniques that you can achieve by targeting
| | 02:35 | images or movies on a web.
| | 02:37 | For example, I might want to put a
banner right up here. Let's say each week I
| | 02:42 | have a different sale at my store, 10%
off, 20%-30% off, whatever and I want
| | 02:47 | that current week sale offer to be
placed inside this frame but the problem is,
| | 02:53 | is this is a PDF file and that PDF file
is already on my customer's machine. So
| | 02:59 | whenever they open that PDF, I want it to
show that current week sale. Can I do that?
| | 03:04 | Sure, I just take my ad and I turn it
into a movie. In this case, One Frame
| | 03:10 | movie, the movie just shows that one
frame and then I put that movie in here,
| | 03:16 | right now, here is the movie that I
want to be targeting, so I am going to
| | 03:19 | select this text out of here and copy
it to the clipboard and one more time,
| | 03:24 | run to that same routine, select to the
frame, Interactive, Movie Options, come
| | 03:30 | over here, specify the URL, paste it in,
verify it, it grabs the size and in
| | 03:35 | this case, the poster is going to be
From the Frame, so it should be that first
| | 03:40 | frame of the movie, click OK, and there it is.
| | 03:43 | Now because I want the PDF to always
go out and grab the most recent movie, I
| | 03:48 | need to click Play on Page Turn. So
as soon as that page shows up, it goes
| | 03:53 | across the web, grabs the movie and
places it in here. Click OK, and it shows
| | 03:59 | up in InDesign, let's go ahead and try the PDF.
| | 04:02 | I am going to export this to the
Desktop with Command+E or Ctrl+E on Windows,
| | 04:07 | save it as a PDF, click Save and
let's go ahead and turn-on Interactive
| | 04:11 | Elements, otherwise we won't get any of
our movies, click Export, and I am only
| | 04:16 | going to be exporting this one page,
just page 6, just so that this export goes
| | 04:20 | a little bit faster in this demo.
| | 04:22 | It opens it up in Acrobat and we get
our dreaded Manage Trust for Multimedia
| | 04:28 | Content alert. This is a very annoying
dialog box, it always shows up, but it's
| | 04:33 | not a big deal, all you have to do
is click Play and Acrobat goes out and
| | 04:38 | starts playing the movie. In this case,
it just starts playing this movie right
| | 04:41 | here, so it went across the web, grabbed the
most current ad and placed it into the PDF.
| | 04:48 | If I go back to Fit in Window, with a
Ctrl+0 on Windows or Command+0 on Mac,
| | 04:53 | you can see that the movie is down
here as well, and if I click on that, it
| | 04:57 | starts to play. I will click on it again,
just to stop it and you get the idea,
| | 05:06 | you can play and stop these movies, but
this movie will automatically play, as
| | 05:10 | soon as, the PDF opens in Acrobat.
| | 05:13 | And unfortunately, there is just no
way I know of, to get Acrobat to stop
| | 05:16 | showing you that dreaded alert dialog
box, but if you can live with that, then
| | 05:21 | this is a great way to stream
your content into your PDFs.
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| Adding SWF files to PDF files| 00:06 | Once upon a time, PDF was PDF and SWF
was SWF and never the twain would meet,
| | 00:12 | but in today's brave new world, you can
mix and match at least to some degree,
| | 00:17 | letting you add some very cool elements
to your interactive PDF files, and the
| | 00:21 | key is to remember that SWF files are
basically just animations, that is movies.
| | 00:26 | So most of the things that you can do
with movies in InDesign, you can do with
| | 00:30 | the SWF, and just as with movies, you
have to export it as a PDF file to see it
| | 00:37 | work on the page. Even then it may not
work in some situations, more on that in
| | 00:42 | a minute, but first, here is how to
import a SWF into your InDesign page.
| | 00:46 | I am going to go to the File menu,
choose Place and then choose my SWF. In this
| | 00:52 | case, I am going to choose Cocoa,
click Open, and now I can either click, or
| | 00:57 | click and drag, it places the SWF into
a brand new frame, and now I could scale
| | 01:03 | it or move it or whatever, but the
first thing I am going to do is double-click
| | 01:07 | on it to go to Movie Options.
| | 01:09 | Double-clicking on it, is the same
thing as going to Object, Interactive Movie
| | 01:13 | Options, but double-clicking is a
little bit faster. I am going to embed the
| | 01:16 | SWG into my PDF and I am going to
make it play on the page turn, that is as
| | 01:23 | soon as the page appears in
Acrobat, it will start playing.
| | 01:26 | When it comes to showing a poster that
is which image Acrobat will show on the
| | 01:30 | page when the movie isn't playing. I
can either choose None, Standard, or
| | 01:34 | Choose an Image from my computer as a
poster, but I cannot choose a movie frame
| | 01:39 | as a poster. I am not sure why,
actually in earlier versions of InDesign, you
| | 01:43 | could, but for some reason now you can't.
| | 01:46 | Anyway, in this case I am going to be
playing this movie as soon as soon as the
| | 01:49 | page appears, so I don't even need a
poster. I am going to choose None. I will
| | 01:53 | click OK that little poster just
disappears here and I now I am going to scale
| | 01:58 | this image larger. I will just
Command+Shift+drag or Ctrl+Shift+drag on Windows
| | 02:03 | to get the size I want. To fit the
frame to the new size of my SWF, I will
| | 02:09 | press Command+Option+C
or on Windows, Ctrl+Alt+C.
| | 02:13 | Now I will just drag it into position
where I want it. Now why don't I gust it
| | 02:17 | up a little bit. I am going to give it
a white background, and why don't I give
| | 02:21 | it a Drop Shadow while I am at it.
Here we go. It looks a little bit smashed
| | 02:24 | here. The animation is going to play
inside here, but as I said earlier, I
| | 02:29 | cannot play it inside InDesign, or can I?
| | 02:34 | There is actually a free script, really
cool script called PlaySWF, and if you
| | 02:39 | download that from automatication.com,
you can install it; there is a little
| | 02:44 | readme file that shows you
exactly where to install it.
| | 02:47 | Install it, relaunch InDesign, and all
of a sudden, under the Window menu, you
| | 02:51 | have a brand new feature called Play
SWF. When you do that, it opens a window
| | 02:57 | that shows you what the SWF looks like.
To play it from the beginning, I have
| | 03:01 | to deselect that frame and then select it
again, and you can see there is the animation.
| | 03:07 | Anyway I am going to go ahead and close
this window and we are going to export
| | 03:10 | this out as a PDF so we can see it in
Acrobat. I will choose Export from the
| | 03:14 | File menu and save this out to my
computer. I am going to make sure the
| | 03:18 | Interactive Element checkbox is turned-on
in the Export Adobe PDF dialog box.
| | 03:23 | If that's not on, the SWF
will not be included in the PDF.
| | 03:27 | I will click Export, it saves it to
disk and then opens it in Acrobat. Now
| | 03:31 | because there is some interactive
media inside this PDF, Acrobat's Trust
| | 03:35 | Manager throws up this dialog box
saying, are you sure you want to play this?
| | 03:39 | So you could say yes, yes it's okay,
go ahead and play, and when you do that,
| | 03:43 | you will see the SWF playing inside Acrobat.
| | 03:46 | Now there are two other significant
things you need to know about SWF in
| | 03:50 | InDesign. First, you cannot export
SWFs into other SWFs. That's right. If you
| | 03:56 | import a SWF into InDesign, you cannot
export that out to a SWF file format. I
| | 04:01 | know it's crazy but there you go, this
is only a PDF trick, you can put SWFs
| | 04:06 | into an InDesign document and export to PDF.
| | 04:09 | Now the second thing you need to know
is that SWF files cannot be shown in some
| | 04:13 | PDF viewers. For example, if you
open this PDF in the built-in preview
| | 04:18 | application on the Mac, it will not
display the SWF animation. Preview is just
| | 04:23 | much more limited than Acrobat, but
even some versions of Acrobat will not be
| | 04:28 | able to play the SWF.
| | 04:29 | While it seems to generally work on
Acrobat for Windows, Acrobat for the Mac
| | 04:34 | sometimes has problems. For example,
you may see a message that it is buffering
| | 04:39 | the SWF and then it will never show
anything. Fortunately, it appears that you
| | 04:43 | can fix that problem simply by
installing Safari 4 or the WebKit browser.
| | 04:48 | Another solution is to import the SWF
into your PDF file using Acrobat instead
| | 04:53 | of InDesign. Just leave a space for it,
then use Acrobat's Multimedia Tools to
| | 04:58 | import the SWF. When you do that,
the SWF will be played by Acrobat 9's
| | 05:03 | internal Flash player instead of
relying on the operating system at all.
| | 05:07 | Like any kind of interactive experience,
it's worth testing your PDF documents
| | 05:11 | on several different machines to make
sure they are working properly, but the
| | 05:14 | ability to add this cool SWF files to your PDFs
makes that extra testing time totally worth it.
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| Hiding and showing page objects| 00:00 | Here, let me show you something. See
how when I roll my cursor over this text,
| | 00:10 | the image shows up and then I roll off
and the image disappears. Roll on, roll
| | 00:16 | off. This ability to hide and show
objects is fundamental to many interactive
| | 00:21 | designs but it's not immediately
obvious how to achieve this when making an
| | 00:25 | interactive PDF from InDesign.
| | 00:27 | Fortunately, it's not that hard, once
you get the hang of it. I am going to
| | 00:31 | close this PDF and switch back to
InDesign and show you how to make these other
| | 00:35 | images turn on and off. In order to
hide or show an image, it has to be a
| | 00:39 | button. So I am going to select this
image and open up the Buttons panel. To
| | 00:45 | turn it into a button, I am going to
click the Make Button button at the bottom
| | 00:49 | of the Buttons panel. Now it's a button,
so all I need to do and in the Buttons
| | 00:53 | panel fly-out menu, I am going to
say that this is hidden in the PDF.
| | 00:57 | That's setting its initial state, that
is, when the PDF first opens, it will be
| | 01:02 | hidden. I am going to give it a name,
something a little more obvious than
| | 01:05 | Button 10. How about Image 2? That
sounds pretty good and now, it's ready to
| | 01:10 | go. I can hide or show that by turning
this text frame at the bottom here into
| | 01:15 | a button. So I'll select it, click on
the Make Button button and then give it a
| | 01:20 | name. How about call it text 2.
You can call anything you want.
| | 01:24 | In order to make this image up here
hide or show, I need to first set an event
| | 01:30 | to the text frame. So I am going to
say On Roll Over. So on the event called
| | 01:36 | Roll over, give it an Action called Show/Hide
Buttons. Here we go. InDesign now
| | 01:42 | gives me a list of all the different
buttons on my spread. Image 1, image 2,
| | 01:47 | text 2, we want to change image 2,
that's the one I just made, and I am going
| | 01:51 | to select that and then click on the
Eyeball icon down here to say that this
| | 01:57 | should be visible on Roll Over.
| | 02:00 | Now I'll set this to On Roll Off and
I'll just do the opposite. On Roll Off, I
| | 02:05 | should show or hide buttons and I am
going to hide image 2 by clicking on the
| | 02:10 | icon which has the little red line
through it. That's it. I am done with that
| | 02:14 | set with these two buttons. Let's do
it one more time with this set. I'll
| | 02:18 | select the Baking Chocolate image,
convert it to a button and set it to hidden
| | 02:23 | at first and then I'll give it a name,
something I'll recognize later like
| | 02:27 | image 3 and then I'll select the text
frame down here, convert it to a button,
| | 02:32 | give it a name like text 3 and I'll
say On Roll Over, it should Show/Hide the
| | 02:38 | button and I want to, not image 2, I
want to find image 3. So I click on image
| | 02:43 | 3 and turn it on, make it visible.
| | 02:46 | Now on Roll Off, I am going to say,
this should be a Show/Hide a button and it
| | 02:51 | will turn off that image 3. It will
make it invisible again. And I am done.
| | 02:57 | Actually just for kicks, let's add one
more button in here. I am going to make
| | 03:01 | all three images show up at the same
time when I Roll Over this great gifts
| | 03:06 | text frame. So I'll turn that into a
button, I am going to call this one, Show
| | 03:11 | All Images and I am going to say On Roll
Over, it should Show/Hide all of the images.
| | 03:18 | I can scroll through this list here and
select image 1, and I am going to hold
| | 03:21 | down the Command key on the Mac or Ctrl
key on Windows to select more than one
| | 03:26 | item from this list. And let's go
ahead and grab image 1, 2 and 3 again I'll
| | 03:31 | hold down the Command or Ctrl key to
select the number 3 as well . Now when all
| | 03:35 | three of those are selected, I am
going to click on the make visible button,
| | 03:39 | the Show button that makes them visible.
| | 03:42 | Then on Roll Off, I'll go ahead and do
just the opposite. Show/Hide 1, 2 and 3
| | 03:48 | and I am going to make sure that all 1,
2 and 3 are selected still. Yes it is.
| | 03:51 | So I'll click on the Hide button and
now they'll all hide, let's go ahead and try
| | 03:56 | it out by going to the File menu,
choosing Export and saving this to disk as a
| | 04:01 | PDF. I am going to just write over the
PDF file that was there earlier that I
| | 04:05 | showed you. I'll say sure go ahead and
replace that and I am going to make sure
| | 04:09 | that my Interactive Elements checkbox
is turned on, otherwise I wont get my
| | 04:13 | buttons. They wont work at all.
| | 04:15 | I'll click Export, and see what it
looks like in Acrobat. Here it is. My cursor
| | 04:21 | is on top of text frame 3. So I am
seeing the third image. When I Roll Off,
| | 04:26 | it's off, it disappears. On, Off, On,
Off, On, Off. So my buttons worked
| | 04:32 | perfectly. Now let's try the fourth
button we had here, the great gifts one.
| | 04:37 | Yes that shows all of them at the same
time and when I Roll Off of it, they all
| | 04:41 | disappear. I have to admit that I do
wish it were easier and faster to achieve
| | 04:45 | this effect. Turning on all of those
little Eyeball buttons can get tedious,
| | 04:50 | but the end result is worth it. I
loved being able to do these kinds of
| | 04:53 | interactive effects in my PDF files.
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| Adding background music| 00:06 | You can spend hours making an
interactive PDF sweet to look at, but what about
| | 00:11 | our other senses? Sound especially is to
often overlooked in interactive documents.
| | 00:16 | Now it's not hard to add sound to your
PDF files, though there are a few tricks
| | 00:21 | that you should know about. For example,
MP3 files. You probably have lots and
| | 00:26 | lots of MP3 files around your hard drive
but you cannot use those with InDesign.
| | 00:30 | InDesign and Acrobat do not understand
the MP3 format unfortunately. So if you
| | 00:35 | want to use some music in MP3 format,
you have to convert it to something that
| | 00:39 | InDesign can read like Wave file or AIF file.
| | 00:43 | Now I happen to have an AIF file
that I want to bring into this InDesign
| | 00:47 | document, so how do I do it? I go to
the File menu, choose Place and just pick
| | 00:51 | it right off my hard drive. There it is.
It comes in almost as though we were
| | 00:55 | in image or a movie.
| | 00:57 | When I click on my page, it adds a new
frame and places the sound into it. By
| | 01:03 | default, InDesign gives that sound
this poster image. It looks kind of like a
| | 01:09 | spaceship or having supposed to
be a speaker, but it's pretty ugly.
| | 01:12 | Anyway, that poster image will show up
in Acrobat whenever I open the PDF which
| | 01:17 | is actually not what I want in this
case. I certainly don't want this ugly in
| | 01:21 | my PDF. But I don't even want
anything in the PDF to be visible because I'm
| | 01:25 | trying to create a background sound to
your background music for this document.
| | 01:30 | So, I'm going to edit the Sound options.
I can get the sounds options by going
| | 01:34 | to the Object menu, going out to
Interactive and then choosing Sound Options.
| | 01:38 | But I'm not going to do that
because really it's much faster just to
| | 01:42 | double-click on the Sound. Double-click
on the Sound, opens the Sound Options
| | 01:46 | dialog box and here I can change the poster
from Standard, which should just read ugly to None.
| | 01:53 | Now it's going to be just transparent
frame, you won't see anything at all. I'm
| | 01:58 | also going to turn on to Play on Page
Turn checkbox and when that's on as soon
| | 02:03 | as Acrobat displays this page,
it will start the music going.
| | 02:07 | Let's go ahead and click OK and we
can see that the poster disappears. It's
| | 02:11 | completely transparent and I could
leave this in the middle of my page if I
| | 02:15 | want to, but I'll tell you why I don't.
| | 02:17 | Even though you can't see it, when it
gets Acrobat if a user is moving the
| | 02:22 | cursor around, the cursor will change
when it's on top of that area because
| | 02:26 | technically it's a button
even though you can't see it.
| | 02:29 | So I usually take this and I drag it
down near the bottom of the page or even
| | 02:34 | right off the bottom of the page a
little bit and the top of that frame has to
| | 02:37 | be touching the page a little bit. But you
don't need to have the whole thing on the page.
| | 02:42 | So I'm going to leave it down there,
just so I can see a little bit of it.
| | 02:46 | Okay, let's go try it out. I'm going to
go to File menu, choose Export and save
| | 02:51 | this out as a PDF file. When I'm
saving as PDF, I need to make sure that
| | 02:55 | Interactive Elements is turned on or
else I will not get that sound. InDesign
| | 02:59 | will just strip it out so that's turned
on, I'll click Export and it will write
| | 03:03 | this whole PDF to disk and open it in Acrobat.
| | 03:07 | Because there's music in this PDF,
Acrobat puts up this Manage Trust for
| | 03:11 | Multimedia Content dialog box alerting
me that hey, there is music and watch out, it
| | 03:16 | might be dangerous music, and I don't
know what dangerous music would be or what
| | 03:21 | it would sound like but in this case I'm just
going to go ahead and trust it and click Play.
| | 03:32 | In this case I have a very short
piece of music, just played for about 5
| | 03:36 | seconds there and then stopped. So I
would really like it to loop over and
| | 03:39 | over again. Well InDesign doesn't have
any way to control looping of music but
| | 03:44 | Acrobat does, so let me show
you how to do that in Acrobat.
| | 03:48 | I'll go to the Tools menu, choose
Advance Editing and then choose the Select
| | 03:52 | Object Tool. And with the Object Tool I
can just barely see the outline of that
| | 03:58 | little sound object down
at the bottom of the screen.
| | 04:01 | So I'm going to double-click on that
and up comes the Multimedia Properties
| | 04:06 | dialog box here in Acrobat. To change
the settings for this music, I can click
| | 04:11 | Edit Rendition and inside the Rendition
settings dialog box I click Playback settings.
| | 04:16 | And it's here, that I can tell this
music to repeat either continuously or a
| | 04:22 | certain number of times. I'll just let
it go Continuously for now, I'll click
| | 04:26 | OK, I'll click Close and I save my
document with the Command+S or Ctrl+S on
| | 04:31 | Windows and now it will start playing,
the next time I view this PDF. Right now
| | 04:38 | it's not going to play it because
remember it was set to Play on Page Turn.
| | 04:42 | So the next time, I hit this page, it
will start playing continuously even if I
| | 04:46 | move from one page to the next. In
general, I would probably import longer
| | 04:51 | pieces of music like a whole song
into my PDF, that's a little bit more
| | 04:55 | pleasant then listening to the
same thing over and over again.
| | 04:58 | But the only problem with that is that
whenever I go back to this page, I might
| | 05:02 | be looking through a presentation but
as soon as I go back to this page that
| | 05:06 | song will start playing from the
beginning again. Acrobat doesn't know how to
| | 05:11 | just keep playing something
even when I come back to this page.
| | 05:14 | Nevertheless, adding a sound track to
your PDF is a great way to bump up the
| | 05:19 | quality of a presentation and to
make your audience really happy.
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