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InDesign CS4: Interactive Documents and Presentations

with Michael Ninness

In InDesign CS4: Interactive Documents and Presentations, Adobe product manager and designer Michael Ninness shows print designers how to use InDesign by itself and in conjunction with Acrobat and Flash Professional to lay out and design a wide range of digital documents. Michael provides a tour of digital publishing trends, showing real-world examples of what can be achieved through InDesign. He creates a slide presentation with transitions and live hyperlinks, and then builds an interactive portfolio that can be used with prospective clients. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Configuring a custom InDesign workspace for designing digital documents
Building slide navigation buttons for interactive presentations
Adding reflection effects to images within a presentation
Using InDesign to build an interactive mood board
Creating an interactive digital spiral-bound portfolio
Using InDesign and Flash Professional to build and animate a digital magazine
Adding a video file to an interactive document

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author: Michael Ninness
subject: Business, Presentations, Design, Web, Digital Publishing, PDF, Projects
software: InDesign CS4
level: Intermediate

duration: 4h 57m
released: Aug 11, 2009

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Introduction 2m 41s

Introduction 1m 34s

Using the exercise files 1m 7s

1. Trends in Digital Publishing 52m 22s

From print to web 3m 0s

From web to print 3m 31s

Print plus digital: Newspapers 5m 6s

Print plus digital: Magazines 3m 42s

Digital print replicas 6m 31s

User-generated content 2m 54s

Self-publishing: Print 5m 4s

Self-publishing: Digital 3m 41s

Digital catalogs 1m 40s

Digital magazines: iGIZMO and iMOTOR 5m 22s

Digital magazines: VIVmag 6m 33s

Digital magazines: FLYP 3m 40s

Digital portfolios: Studio Q 1m 38s

2. Setting Up InDesign for Designing Digital Documents 11m 43s

Customizing the workspace 4m 15s

Working in pixels 1m 51s

Other helpful preference changes to make 1m 45s

Creating an RGB color palette 3m 52s

3. Creating a Slide Presentation 57m 19s

What we're going to build 1m 43s

Choosing a document size 1m 21s

Adding layers to stay organized 2m 46s

Creating a title slide master page 2m 57s

Adding placeholder text 2m 44s

Creating auto page numbers 3m 51s

Adding placeholder slide navigation buttons 3m 39s

Creating a content slide master page 5m 39s

Creating paragraph styles 6m 2s

Overriding master page items 2m 56s

Duplicating and moving pages 1m 44s

Redefining a paragraph style 3m 3s

Creating navigation buttons 5m 22s

Customizing the buttons for the first and last slide 2m 29s

Applying page transitions 2m 23s

Adding hyperlinks 2m 39s

Testing hyperlinks before exporting 1m 34s

Exporting to PDF 4m 27s

4. Advanced PDF Presentations 35m 22s

Setting initial view options with Acrobat Professional 3m 20s

Adding a button to enter Full Screen mode 6m 52s

Adding a tool tip to a button in Acrobat Professional 2m 21s

Creating bookmarks in InDesign 7m 46s

Making a button to go to a specific page in a PDF 8m 16s

Creating "remote rollovers" with Show/Hide Button 6m 47s

5. Creative Effects for Presentations 13m 29s

Adding a drop shadow 2m 7s

Creating a reflection effect for placed images 5m 23s

Creating the sense of a timeline with page transitions 5m 59s

6. Creating an Interactive Mood Board 41m 18s

What we're going to build 3m 43s

Using Proportional Place to scale images while placing them 2m 26s

Placing multiple files as a grid of images 3m 33s

Adding the URL hyperlink 1m 26s

Assigning actions to the navigation buttons 2m 4s

Using groups to create different button state appearances 5m 44s

Creating a button that hides itself when clicked 4m 48s

Toggling the visibility of multiple objects with one button 4m 0s

Creating buttons to hide and show strokes 6m 24s

Creating buttons to hide and show color values 3m 27s

Adding the Interactive Page Curl option for Flash (SWF) Export 3m 43s

7. Creating a Digital Portfolio 33m 9s

What we're going to build 1m 17s

Starting a document with a double page spread 6m 41s

Creating the illusion of a book with a cover 5m 38s

Adding the spiral-bound image to the edges 4m 27s

Adding the illusion of a gap between the open pages 4m 8s

Creating a clipped button to close the book 6m 39s

Applying a subtle drop shadow Object Style 4m 19s

8. Creating a Digital Magazine with InDesign and Flash 35m 19s

Exporting a SWF prototype for a Flash developer 3m 51s

Handing off the InDesign layout by exporting to XFL 2m 52s

Opening the XFL file in Flash CS4 Professional 3m 23s

Adding a stop action to the first frame 2m 37s

Animating the masthead with a Motion Preset 3m 24s

Testing the animation and preventing it from looping 1m 59s

Creating an invisible button to go to another page 4m 19s

Creating a button to return to the first page 2m 52s

Creating the remaining buttons 4m 29s

Adding a video to the digital magazine 3m 46s

Exploring the final "developer" version of the digital magazine 1m 47s

9. InDesign to Flash Production Tips 14m 37s

The Combine Textfields extension 5m 39s

Avoid ligatures if you want to edit text later in Flash 4m 0s

Using JPEG pass-through for better image quality 4m 58s

Conclusion 37s

Goodbye 37s

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