WelcomeIntroduction| 00:04 | Hello, I am James Fritz, and welcome to
InDesign CS5 Interactive Documents and Presentations.
| | 00:10 | Like most designers, I have been
overwhelmed by the demands of learning new
| | 00:13 | software and techniques.
| | 00:14 | If you have been struggling with
the design limitations of presentation
| | 00:17 | software--like PowerPoint or Keynote--
or been confused by the complexities of
| | 00:21 | creating interactive documents with
Flash, this is the course for you.
| | 00:24 | We'll be using InDesign with Acrobat
Pro and Flash Professional to create a
| | 00:29 | series of projects, including a
presentation, a micro site, and an
| | 00:33 | interactive catalog.
| | 00:35 | The beginning of the series is
a little different than most.
| | 00:37 | It includes a few examples of what kinds
of digital documents are being produced
| | 00:41 | right now with InDesign.
| | 00:42 | I will walk you through all the steps
needed to create a compelling presentation,
| | 00:46 | with animated introductions, a custom
navigation system, and page transitions.
| | 00:51 | Next, I'll teach you how to build a
micro site with navigation buttons, sound hotspots,
| | 00:56 | (Bees buzzing.)
| | 00:58 | and interactive maps.
| | 01:00 | Finally, I'll pass along a lot
of tips throughout the course,
| | 01:03 | tips that will help you create and edit
your digital documents just as easily as
| | 01:07 | you work with print documents.
| | 01:09 | Our future is digital.
| | 01:10 | It's time to get onboard and
build an amazing design project.
| | 01:13 | Let's take a look at InDesign CS5
Interactive Documents and Presentations.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | If you are a premium member of the
lynda.com Online Training Library, or if
| | 00:04 | you're watching this tutorial on a DVD,
you'll have access to the exercise files
| | 00:08 | used throughout this title.
| | 00:09 | After downloading or copying them from the DVD,
place them on your desktop for easy access.
| | 00:14 | Inside that folder are all of the chapters.
| | 00:16 | If I click on one of the chapters,
I have subfolders for each exercise.
| | 00:20 | Inside that subfolder is the InDesign
asset, and the main folder is a links
| | 00:24 | folder that contains links
for all of our InDesign files.
| | 00:27 | If you are a monthly subscriber or
an annual subscriber to lynda.com, you
| | 00:31 | don't have access to these files, but you can
follow along from scratch with your own assets.
| | 00:35 | Now, let's get started.
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1. Trends in Digital DesignInteractive documents: Born Magazine| 00:00 | One of the best examples of what you can
create with InDesign CS5 is Born Presents.
| | 00:04 | Design agency Belle & Wissell set out
to develop an electronic publication to
| | 00:09 | celebrate the 14 years of Born Magazine.
| | 00:11 | This article explains Belle &
Wissell's experience of using InDesign to
| | 00:14 | create this project.
| | 00:15 | By taking advantage of InDesign's
new interactive features, their print
| | 00:18 | designers were able to expand their
skills into the interactive realm while
| | 00:22 | using tools they already know.
| | 00:22 | As you scroll down on this page,
there is a link that we can click on to
| | 00:26 | launch Born Presents.
| | 00:28 | After the page loads, we'll see the
cover of Born Presents with a series of
| | 00:31 | dots that slowly fade into the number of
projects and contributors that worked on this project.
| | 00:36 | We can click on the button in the lower
right-hand corner to navigate to the next page.
| | 00:41 | As we navigate through this project,
we'll start to see more interactivity, such
| | 00:44 | as a video and rollover buttons.
| | 00:51 | This spread is one of the most interesting.
| | 00:53 | We have a series of covers with
rollovers that let us click, see a larger
| | 00:56 | version, and close them.
| | 00:59 | At the top of the page is a chart.
| | 01:01 | As we roll over each of the topics, the
chart updates to show the percentage of
| | 01:05 | the covers that cover this topic.
| | 01:07 | The other side of the spread has windows
that pop up and fade away as you move over them.
| | 01:11 | They are links that bring you to a
case study on another page, and as we
| | 01:15 | navigate to the last page of the
document, we'll see the numbers slowly fade away.
| | 01:18 | What makes Born Presents such a great
example is that you can download the full
| | 01:22 | InDesign source files from Adobe's web site.
| | 01:25 | Let's take a look at them.
| | 01:27 | As you navigate through the document,
you'll be able to take it apart and see
| | 01:30 | exactly how the files were made.
| | 01:31 | For example, this chart is actually a
multi-state object with different states
| | 01:37 | that are triggered by buttons on the page.
| | 01:39 | Don't worry if you don't know
exactly what this means yet.
| | 01:41 | We'll learn how to create these
types of effects later in the scores.
| | 01:45 | Think of this as another exercise
that you can take apart and learn how it
| | 01:47 | was created.
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| Annual report case study: Unitus| 00:00 | Unitus is a nonprofit organization that
fights global poverty by helping people
| | 00:05 | with micro-financing.
| | 00:06 | Like all public organizations, they are
required to provide an annual report.
| | 00:10 | They have forgone printing and
mailing the reports and instead are producing
| | 00:13 | them digitally as printable
PDFs in an interactive SWF.
| | 00:16 | Both of these were
produced in part with InDesign.
| | 00:18 | On this page, we can find links to
Unitus's annual reports over the years.
| | 00:21 | Let's take a look at their
Flash annual report for 2008.
| | 00:24 | The 2008 Annual Report was
produced with InDesign CS4.
| | 00:28 | It began its life in InDesign and
was transferred to Flash where the
| | 00:31 | interactivity was added.
| | 00:33 | In CS5, we could re-create most of what
we see here without having to use Flash.
| | 00:37 | On the right-hand side, we have a
navigation system with a series of buttons.
| | 00:40 | When we click Begin, it will
take us through the document.
| | 00:43 | As we click the arrows, it will
bring us to various pages within the PDF.
| | 00:47 | Here we have a play button to watch a movie.
| | 00:51 | (Male Speaker: I just got back from a trip to Kenya,
which was very much focused on of the regions)
| | 00:58 | (Male Speaker: in which Jamii Bora is
working, and that is the coffee-growing area.)
| | 01:02 | As we navigate through, we can
go and jump to a specific area.
| | 01:05 | Let's take a look at the results.
| | 01:06 | On the results page, we have an animated chart.
| | 01:11 | When I click on the link, I'll see
the chart slowly appear over time.
| | 01:14 | This could easily be created with InDesign.
| | 01:16 | I can click the Close button,
and let's take a look at one more.
| | 01:19 | This chart shows client growth over time.
| | 01:23 | I can mouse over any of these buttons
and focus on just that particular area.
| | 01:26 | The upper right-hand corner has a link to
download the print edition of their PDF.
| | 01:30 | The PDF version of their annual report has
the same appearance as the Flash web site.
| | 01:34 | Because Unitus used InDesign, they
are able to design their annual report
| | 01:37 | once and reuse it for many different mediums.
| | 01:40 | By the end of this course, you should be
able to do this with your own projects.
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| Self-publishing| 00:01 | Another growing trend is the ability
for people to self-publish their work.
| | 00:04 | In the past, if you wanted to produce your
own book or magazine you have to either
| | 00:08 | be independently wealthy or
sign a contract with the publisher.
| | 00:11 | Today, the Internet provides a
wide variety of resources to help you
| | 00:14 | publish your own work.
| | 00:16 | This first site is called The Book Designer.
| | 00:18 | It gives you advice to help you build
better books, and helps you with your
| | 00:20 | own self-publishing.
| | 00:22 | The next site is issuu.
Think of it as YouTube for magazines.
| | 00:25 | There are over 250,000
publications a month that are produced here.
| | 00:28 | As a customer, you can read any of the
magazines on the site that you want for free.
| | 00:32 | Let's take a look at a couple.
| | 00:33 | Let me go to Publications and check
out what's most popular of all time, and
| | 00:37 | let's look at this bike Magazine.
| | 00:40 | At the bottom, we have a nice rollover
that let's us jump to a particular page.
| | 00:44 | If we want to zoom in, we can click on it,
and as you move your mouse around, you
| | 00:48 | can pan and take a look at the page.
| | 00:50 | This might get hard to read.
| | 00:51 | At the top, we have a control system,
but let's just switch to a hand so we can
| | 00:54 | manually drag around.
| | 00:56 | If we need to zoom in or out, we have a nice
slider, and then we can navigate to the next page.
| | 00:59 | If we like, we can even forward it to a friend.
| | 01:02 | As a designer or producer of a
magazine, you can upload a regular PDF to
| | 01:06 | issuu, and it will be added to the
site where this navigation system will be
| | 01:09 | overlaid on top of it.
| | 01:11 | You can leave your magazine on the site for
others to read, or you can also keep it private.
| | 01:14 | If you wish to keep it private, you
can even embed it on your own web site.
| | 01:17 | The next web site that I like
to talk about is Lonny magazine.
| | 01:20 | Lonny magazine is published by Michelle
Adams and Patrick Klein, who worked at a
| | 01:24 | publication that recently closed.
| | 01:26 | Rather than try to find new work, they
decided to create a magazine all on their own.
| | 01:29 | They produce the entire magazine start to
finish themselves, and host it on their web site.
| | 01:34 | Let's take a look at the magazine.
| | 01:38 | As we navigate to the magazine, there
is links to jump to specific pages.
| | 01:43 | There's also an index that let's
us look at all of the pages at once.
| | 01:46 | Let's go to page 16, and all of these
products have links where we can click to buy them.
| | 01:50 | With the power of sites like these, we
are in new era of publishing that allows
| | 01:54 | people to become their
own independent publishers.
| | 01:56 | Now, anyone with an idea
can publish it with the world.
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| Digital books: iBooks, ePub| 00:00 | Over the last decade, many people have been
eagerly awaiting the maturing of the digital book.
| | 00:04 | While there have been many
different types of book readers, it hasn't been
| | 00:07 | until last year or so that
digital books have become mainstream.
| | 00:11 | Credit can be given to the wide
popularity of the iPad and Kindle devices.
| | 00:14 | The most popular format for
digital books is ePub, which stands for
| | 00:18 | electronic Publishing.
| | 00:19 | InDesign has been able to export
to ePub for the last few versions.
| | 00:22 | Its main purpose is for novels or
very long text-heavy publications.
| | 00:26 | Let's take a look at ePub in action on the iPad.
| | 00:29 | I have the iBooks application open on
my iPad, and I'm going to tap on the
| | 00:32 | "Winnie the Pooh" book to open it up.
| | 00:35 | To navigate, I can use my
finger to turn the page.
| | 00:39 | I can also tap on either side to
go forward and backward quickly.
| | 00:42 | One of the main advantages of ePub is
the ability to re-size and re-flow your
| | 00:46 | text, sort of like a web page.
| | 00:47 | If I tap on the Font icon, I can
increase and decrease the size of my font, and
| | 00:54 | the text will re-flow.
| | 00:55 | If I want to change my font, I
can tap on a different font, and the
| | 00:58 | entire layout will update.
| | 00:59 | I can also change the brightness of the page.
| | 01:02 | I can dim it or increase it.
| | 01:04 | If I'd like to remember where I'm at,
I can add a bookmark, and then if I
| | 01:08 | navigate away from the page, I can go
to my Table of Contents and choose my
| | 01:12 | bookmarks and go back to right where I was.
| | 01:15 | One of my favorite features of
e-books is the ability to search.
| | 01:18 | I'm going to search for "honey".
| | 01:19 | It's going to search the entire book.
| | 01:21 | I can also search Google or Wikipedia.
| | 01:23 | Let's check out this link.
| | 01:25 | ePub is a developing standard.
| | 01:27 | Currently it supports mainly images and
text, but in the future, movies and more
| | 01:31 | interactivity will probably be included.
| | 01:33 | The other popular format
for e-books is the Kindle.
| | 01:36 | Instead of using ePub, it uses the
.mobi format, which is similar ePub. InDesign
| | 01:41 | can also export to this.
| | 01:43 | Let's take a look at the Kindle on the iPad.
| | 01:46 | Using the Kindle on the iPad is very
similar to using iBooks on the iPad.
| | 01:49 | I can just use my finger to go between
the pages, and if I want to change my font
| | 01:54 | size, I can tap and
increase and decrease my font size.
| | 01:57 | I can also change the background color,
and increasing and decrease the brightness.
| | 02:03 | The ability to carry your entire
personal library in a device smaller than a
| | 02:06 | hardcover is a dream come true for book lovers.
| | 02:08 | While digital books are still in their
infancy, you can use InDesign today to
| | 02:13 | create content for these devices.
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| Digital newspapers: Times Reader| 00:00 | For many people, starting their day
with The New York Times is as much a ritual
| | 00:05 | as having that first cup coffee in the morning.
| | 00:07 | For those who love the look and feel
of the print edition but want the
| | 00:09 | immediacy and interactivity of the web
site, the Times Reader application, powered
| | 00:14 | by Adobe AIR, is a wonderful option.
| | 00:16 | The Times Reader application is a free
download from The New York Times web site.
| | 00:20 | If you're not the subscriber, you have
access to the main headlines and a few
| | 00:23 | other articles, but if you are a
subscriber, you can read the entire paper.
| | 00:26 | One of the main problems with using
The New York Times web site is while it's true
| | 00:30 | it has a lot of information, it can
seem cluttered because it has a lot of
| | 00:33 | previous day's information.
| | 00:34 | If you only want today's information,
you can get distracted by reading an
| | 00:38 | article from last week.
| | 00:39 | The Times Reader application, you're
only able to see one day at a time.
| | 00:43 | Right now, I'm looking at Tuesday, October
12, but if I wanted to, I could go and
| | 00:46 | choose up to the past week.
| | 00:48 | We will stay on today.
| | 00:49 | If I want to read any articles, I can
just mouse over and click, and I can
| | 00:53 | change the size of the font.
| | 00:54 | I can make it medium, small,
or even back to large again.
| | 00:58 | If I re-size the page, the
entire article will re-flow.
| | 01:04 | I'm going to bring it back.
| | 01:05 | It also supports slideshows.
| | 01:09 | Let's check out another section.
| | 01:14 | I'm going to look at News In Pictures.
| | 01:17 | Let's take a look at some more
photos. Mm, that looks pretty good.
| | 01:21 | One of my favorite parts of
the paper is the crossword puzzle.
| | 01:24 | Let's try a part of the puzzle. Nine across.
| | 01:26 | If I click on this, it selects that
field for me. _____ Wagner, player on an
| | 01:30 | ultrarare baseball card.
| | 01:32 | I know this one, Honus Wagner.
| | 01:35 | Let's see if I'm right.
| | 01:37 | Check > Current Word. All right, I am right!
| | 01:41 | By using Adobe AIR, The Times is able
to create a Desktop application that
| | 01:44 | marries the readability of the print
world with the timeliness--no pun intended--
| | 01:48 | and interactivity of the digital era.
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| Digital magazines: Wired, iGIZMO, The New Yorker| 00:00 | One of the most interesting
developments around the whole iPad phenomenon is
| | 00:04 | the digital magazine.
| | 00:05 | One of the first magazines on the iPad
was Wired magazine, which was developed in
| | 00:09 | collaboration with Adobe.
| | 00:11 | It was built using an upcoming
technology called the Digital Magazine Solution.
| | 00:15 | This was the first publication that
was produced entirely using InDesign CS5.
| | 00:19 | Wired Magazine is released every
month on the iTunes store where you can
| | 00:23 | purchase it and transfer it to your iPad.
| | 00:24 | Let's take a look at an issue.
| | 00:26 | The digital magazines have a
unique navigation system.
| | 00:29 | If I want to move between the pages,
I can just slide to go left and right,
| | 00:33 | or even up and down.
| | 00:34 | If I tap on the screen, there's a
scrubby slider at the bottom that lets me jump
| | 00:37 | to any page within the magazine.
| | 00:39 | If I want to go back to the
previous page, we have a Back button.
| | 00:42 | There's a browser in the upper right-
hand corner that gives me a bird's eye view
| | 00:45 | of the entire magazine.
| | 00:47 | Finally, we have a table of contents that
lets me take a look at what's in this issue.
| | 00:52 | Another magazine is iGIZMO.
| | 00:53 | iGIZMO is a digital-only
gadget magazine from the UK.
| | 00:57 | One of the first pages of iGIZMO
shows us how to use the magazine.
| | 01:00 | There is icons that let us know if
there is any special features on the pages.
| | 01:04 | On this page, it looks like there's a 360.
| | 01:05 | I'm going to go down one page, I'm going
to tap the screen, and I can slide back
| | 01:10 | and forth with my finger to
take a look at this device.
| | 01:13 | Let's go to another page.
| | 01:15 | This page has a slideshow.
| | 01:17 | Each time I press a button,
the image and the text changes.
| | 01:19 | Let's check out another one of these.
| | 01:22 | On this page, each time we press the camera,
we get a different picture of the scooter.
| | 01:27 | Let's see what video looks like on this device.
| | 01:28 | I'm going to page-down till we get to this page,
and we have three different videos. Let's play one.
| | 01:33 | (Piers Thurston: Number one. When you're doing your
preparation, think of the lasting impression and the impact
| | 01:38 | (Piers Thurston: that you want to have on your interviewers.
Count three things you want them to know and think about--)
| | 01:44 | The video can be played in line, or
we can tap and view it fullscreen.
| | 01:47 | Finally, let's check out the last page.
| | 01:49 | The last page is letting us know if
there's any articles that we might have missed.
| | 01:52 | If we tap on one, it
brings us back to that page.
| | 01:56 | These magazines are just the beginning.
| | 01:58 | As technology matures, we'll
be seeing more features added.
| | 02:01 | The goal of this course is to develop
your skills to produce something just like this.
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2. Setting Up InDesign for Designing Digital DocumentsSetting preferences for interactive documents| 00:00 | Creating a layout in InDesign is
important, but if you do not set up your
| | 00:03 | preferences correctly, you may find
yourself making manual changes to your
| | 00:07 | preferences endlessly with
every document that you make.
| | 00:09 | InDesign has two types of
preferences: global and local.
| | 00:13 | A global preference is a change
that you make with no document opened.
| | 00:15 | For example, if you want to work in
inches, and you change your preferences
| | 00:18 | into inches with no document opened, every
document you create will always be in inches.
| | 00:22 | But if you make a document and you
realize it's in picas, and then you decide, I
| | 00:26 | want to work in inches, and you
change your preferences to inches with a
| | 00:29 | document opened, that's
considered a local preference.
| | 00:31 | The next document that you
make will be back in picas again.
| | 00:34 | That's why it's best to make changes to
your preferences with no document opened,
| | 00:37 | so it affects every document that you create.
| | 00:39 | We're going to begin by closing our
Welcome Screen and clicking Don't show again;
| | 00:43 | we don't need to see this anymore.
| | 00:44 | And we're going to go to InDesign >
Preferences > General on the Mac, or Edit >
| | 00:48 | Preferences > General on the PC.
| | 00:51 | Inside the Preferences dialog, I'm going
to go down to Interface, and I'm going to
| | 00:54 | disable Enable Multi-Touch Gesture.
| | 00:57 | If your computer supports these
gestures, it can be jarring to accidentally
| | 01:00 | re-size and rotate images
if you don't mean to do it.
| | 01:04 | Next, I'm going to come down to Live
Screen Drawing and change this to Delayed.
| | 01:08 | Live Screen Drawing shows you a
preview of your image as you re-size it.
| | 01:11 | Some people enjoy this feature, but I
feel it slows down your design process.
| | 01:15 | Next, we're going to go to Type, and we are
going to apply leading to the entire paragraphs.
| | 01:20 | This way, if you only hit your cursor
inside the paragraph, the leading will
| | 01:23 | still apply it uniformly.
| | 01:25 | Next, we'll go to Display Performance.
| | 01:27 | Inside Display Performance, we're
going to change our View settings to
| | 01:29 | High Quality for both.
| | 01:31 | This way we'll see high-resolution
graphics whenever we place them in our layout.
| | 01:34 | If you're working with a lot of graphics,
or your machine is a little older, you
| | 01:37 | may want leave this on Typical.
| | 01:39 | We'll change Greek Type Below to zero.
| | 01:41 | This way when you zoom out,
you'll be able to read your text.
| | 01:43 | Next, under File Handling, I am not
going to change these settings, but I
| | 01:46 | want to point them out.
| | 01:47 | If you use Bridge to view your
InDesign files, we can see previews of the
| | 01:50 | pages in our document.
| | 01:52 | We can include more pages if we like,
but realize this will increase your file
| | 01:55 | size for each InDesign document.
| | 01:57 | We can also change the
preview size for each thumbnail.
| | 01:59 | I'm going to leave this alone.
| | 02:00 | And now I'm going to click OK,
and my Preferences are set.
| | 02:03 | One last change I'm going
to make is a Mac-only change.
| | 02:06 | I'm going to go to Window > Application Frame.
| | 02:09 | When we turn the application frame on, the
entire program will sit within one frame.
| | 02:13 | The application frame makes it much
easier to move the entire application
| | 02:16 | around, and prevents you from clicking
and losing focus of your application.
| | 02:20 | Remember, when you set up your global
preferences, it will only be set up for
| | 02:23 | documents that you're going to be creating.
| | 02:25 | If you're opening other people's
documents, these documents will have whatever
| | 02:28 | preference settings
that the other user had set.
| | 02:30 | Therefore, it's important to remember
what your favorite settings are so you can
| | 02:33 | make your changes much more easily.
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| Customizing the workspace| 00:00 | It seems like every new version of
InDesign adds more and more panels.
| | 00:03 | And with all of its new interactive
features, CS5 has almost 50 panels.
| | 00:07 | The easiest way to manage all these panels
is to save to their location as a workspace.
| | 00:11 | Right now, we're working
in the Essential workspace.
| | 00:14 | I'm going to come up to the top of
the screen and click on Essentials and
| | 00:17 | change it to Interactive.
| | 00:20 | Interactive is the default
workspace for working with interactive
| | 00:22 | documents inside CS5.
| | 00:24 | We're going to customize this and
make it look a little bit better.
| | 00:27 | The first thing I'm going to do
is remove the unnecessary panels.
| | 00:29 | I'm going to come down to this Library
icon, click and drag this off, and close it.
| | 00:35 | Next, I'm going to re-size this
panel to make it a little shorter and
| | 00:38 | then expand this panel.
| | 00:39 | I'm going to grab the Page
Transitions and drag it down here,
| | 00:43 | I am going to put Preview at the top, and
then I am going to combine some of these.
| | 00:48 | I'm going to put the Timing
underneath Animation, Object States underneath
| | 00:52 | Timing, Media underneath Object States,
and finally, Buttons underneath Media.
| | 00:58 | I'm going to grab Hyperlinks and
put that here, followed by Bookmarks.
| | 01:06 | I will grab Swatches.
| | 01:07 | I don't need Gradient,
| | 01:09 | so I'm going to grab that and remove it.
| | 01:11 | We can remove Stroke and Color.
| | 01:15 | Next, I am going to reorder Pages and layers.
| | 01:19 | I'm going to grab Pages and put
it right underneath the bottom.
| | 01:22 | I'm going to put layers in the front.
| | 01:26 | Now I'll go to Window > Object & Layout >
Align, grab the Align panel that put
| | 01:32 | that above Swatches, and
I will close Pathfinder.
| | 01:35 | I'll go to Window > Effects, and we
will put Effects right over here.
| | 01:41 | And finally, let's add the Styles.
| | 01:43 | Window > Styles > Character Styles,
Paragraph Styles, and finally Object Styles.
| | 02:02 | Now let's customize the Pages panel.
| | 02:05 | From this Panel menu, I am going to
go down and choose Panel Options.
| | 02:07 | I'm going to changes Pages to Large,
turn off Show Vertical, Masters is Extra
| | 02:13 | Small and turn off Show
Vertical, and I'll click OK.
| | 02:19 | Next, I am going to go to Preview and
re-size this to make it a little larger.
| | 02:23 | This way, when we preview our
document, we can see a nice big preview.
| | 02:25 | Now that we have finished, let's save it.
| | 02:29 | I'm going to click on
Interactive and choose New Workspace.
| | 02:32 | You can call this whatever you like, but I'm
calling mine 'Interactivity,' and then click OK.
| | 02:40 | I already have a workspace with this
name, so I'm going to replace it, and
| | 02:43 | now we are finished.
| | 02:49 | Now when you're working, if you
accidentally move your panels around, you can
| | 02:51 | go up to the Interactivity, and choose
Reset, and it will go back to exactly
| | 02:55 | the way that it was.
| | 02:56 | Managing the InDesign interface can
seem like quite a challenge from the sheer
| | 02:59 | number of panels, but having a
workspace set up for each type of task will help
| | 03:03 | you move from project to project with ease.
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| Understanding intent and presets| 00:00 | The first step towards
making a document is to create it,
| | 00:03 | but if you quickly skip over to options
in the New Document window, you may find
| | 00:06 | yourself making changes at a later date.
| | 00:08 | To make a document, we're going
to go to File > New > Document.
| | 00:12 | We can also hit Command+N, or Ctrl+N on the PC.
| | 00:14 | Inside the New Dialog window, you
can see there are a lot of options.
| | 00:18 | Let's break down what we see here.
| | 00:19 | One of the first options we see is Intent.
| | 00:22 | This is new in CS5.
| | 00:24 | If we plan on creating a print
document, we'll leave it at Print.
| | 00:26 | Because we're creating onscreen
documents, like presentations and interactive
| | 00:29 | documents, we're going to choose Web.
| | 00:32 | When we choose Web, you'll
see the units change to pixels.
| | 00:35 | You didn't notice right now, but
inside the Swatches panel, all the swatches
| | 00:38 | switch from CMYK to RGB.
| | 00:40 | That's because this type of document is
going to end up onscreen, not on paper.
| | 00:44 | Another thing that change when we
switch to Web is Facing Pages got turned off
| | 00:47 | and our orientation is now landscape.
| | 00:49 | Under Page Size, I could choose letter,
but because we are going to be designing
| | 00:53 | for the screen, we want to
choose a screen resolution.
| | 00:55 | I recommend that you design
for the final output medium.
| | 00:59 | Don't design a document that's too
large because you don't want to have to
| | 01:02 | scale it down later.
| | 01:03 | I'd rather have to scale something up.
| | 01:05 | But in my opinion, it's best
to design for the final output.
| | 01:07 | I am going to choose 1024 x 768.
| | 01:10 | 1024 x 768 is a common screen
resolution that most computers can support.
| | 01:15 | Next, we have Margins and Columns.
| | 01:17 | I am going to leave this one for now.
| | 01:18 | But if I click on More Options at the
bottom, we also have our Bleed and Slug.
| | 01:22 | Because we are designing for
onscreen, there is no need for bleed.
| | 01:25 | We might use a slug for notes.
| | 01:26 | We'll discuss that in a later chapter.
| | 01:27 | If I plan using all these options at a
later date, I don't want to have to write
| | 01:31 | all of them down and put them on a Post-it note.
| | 01:33 | I might throw that note away, and who
knows? Maybe I'll forget something.
| | 01:36 | It's much better to save this as a preset.
| | 01:38 | So if I click Save Preset, I
can call this Presentation.
| | 01:45 | Now, if I ever change any settings,
and I want to go back to what my
| | 01:49 | settings used to be, I can choose my
preset Presentation, and it puts it
| | 01:52 | the way it's supposed to be.
| | 01:54 | This way, I won't forget an important step.
| | 01:56 | In fact, I can share these
presets with other users.
| | 01:58 | If I click OK to create the document, I
can go to File > Document Presets > Define.
| | 02:04 | Then I can select that
preset and save it as a file.
| | 02:08 | Then on another user's machine, I could
click Load, and load that same preset file.
| | 02:12 | Once you have your document set up the
way that you like, don't forget about the
| | 02:15 | presets that we made.
| | 02:16 | Sharing them with others is a great
way to ensure a seamless production of
| | 02:19 | documents for everyone.
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| Working with images| 00:00 | When designing for print, we
use CMYK for images and color.
| | 00:03 | But when we're creating digital
documents, we need to use RGB because our
| | 00:06 | ultimate destination for these
documents will be on the computer screen.
| | 00:10 | By default, when there's no document opened
| | 00:12 | and we go to our Swatches panel,
| | 00:13 | you'll see that there are CMYK images in here.
| | 00:16 | But if we make a new document--I am
going to File > New > Document--and we
| | 00:20 | change our Intent to Web, and click OK,
you'll see they all switch to RGB.
| | 00:25 | There's no need to have to worry
about changing these beforehand.
| | 00:27 | Let's say we make a brand-new color
swatch, and it happens to be CMYK.
| | 00:31 | I am going to change its
color to something like this.
| | 00:36 | If we want to convert this back to RGB,
all we have to do is double-click and go
| | 00:40 | to Color mode, and
change it to RGB and click OK.
| | 00:43 | Something else to look out for
is our Transparency Blend Space.
| | 00:46 | By going to Edit > Transparency
Blend Space, we want to be sure we're
| | 00:50 | using Document RGB.
| | 00:51 | The Transparency Blend Space helps
you avoid color mismatches when you use
| | 00:55 | transparency effects inside your document.
| | 00:57 | Because our document is going to end
up onscreen, we want the Blend Space to
| | 01:00 | render correctly into RGB.
| | 01:02 | We also have to pay attention to our images.
| | 01:04 | I am going to deselect and close this.
| | 01:06 | Let's bring in an image.
| | 01:07 | I am going to go to File > Place, or
Command+D or Ctrl+D on the PC, and I'm
| | 01:12 | going to go into my Links folder.
| | 01:13 | Inside my Place dialog box, I am
going to scroll down and select bird.jpg.
| | 01:17 | Now, I could use a TIFF or EPS, but
JPEGs work just fine for onscreen.
| | 01:21 | I am going to click Open and then
click and drag and place this image.
| | 01:26 | Now, when I go to my Links panel and
look inside the Link Info, you'll see the
| | 01:30 | Color Space is CMYK.
| | 01:32 | CMYK is useful for printing, but if this is
going to be going onscreen, it needs to be RGB.
| | 01:36 | Now, if I leave it at CMYK, and I
output it to a PDF or a SWF file, InDesign
| | 01:41 | will convert it for me.
| | 01:42 | But I prefer to have Photoshop do the
conversion, because it can do a better job.
| | 01:46 | So to convert it myself, I am going
to go to the Panel menu, choose Edit
| | 01:49 | With > Adobe Photoshop.
| | 01:53 | Inside Photoshop, I am going
to go to Image > Mode > RGB.
| | 01:57 | Now, I can go to File >
Save, and close the image.
| | 02:02 | Back inside InDesign, you'll see
it's updated, and now it's an RGB image.
| | 02:06 | When we're designing for digital
documents, it's going to end up onscreen, which
| | 02:09 | means we can use a smaller resolution.
| | 02:12 | Normally for print, we want around 300
DPI, but for onscreen, it only has to
| | 02:16 | be 72 PPI, which is pixels per inch, so we
can get away with using smaller file size.
| | 02:20 | You can use larger ones if you like,
but they are going to be downsampled when
| | 02:23 | you export to your final output.
| | 02:25 | Well, it may seem strange to work with
RGB if you're used to only working with
| | 02:29 | CMYK, don't let it bother you
because they really aren't that different.
| | 02:32 | I think you'll find that over time
working in RGB will seem as natural as CMYK.
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| Installing scripts| 00:00 | One of my favorite
features of InDesign are scripts.
| | 00:02 | They are tiny little programs that
automatically perform repetitive tasks that
| | 00:07 | would otherwise be a lot of manual work.
| | 00:09 | To install a script, we are going to
go to Window > Utilities > Scripts.
| | 00:14 | We can also hit Command+Option+F11
on the Mac, or Ctrl+Alt+F11 on the PC.
| | 00:20 | We want to install our scripts inside
the User folder in the Script panel.
| | 00:23 | Right now, I don't have any installed.
| | 00:24 | I am going to right-click the User
folder and choose Reveal in Finder on the
| | 00:27 | Mac, or Reveal in Explorer on the PC.
| | 00:29 | On my Desktop, I have two
scripts that I am going to install.
| | 00:32 | I am not providing these
scripts inside the exercise files.
| | 00:36 | I downloaded these from the
web site indesignsecrets.com.
| | 00:39 | You can also find more scripts at the
Adobe Exchange and then search for InDesign.
| | 00:43 | I am going to select these scripts and
drag them on top of the Scripts Panel folder.
| | 00:48 | Now that I've got them installed, I can go
back into InDesign, and they're ready to use.
| | 00:52 | When you're ready to run one, all you
have to do is double-click on that script.
| | 00:55 | We are going to talk about
these two scripts in a later movie.
| | 00:58 | Inside the Application folder,
InDesign ships with a couple of scripts.
| | 01:00 | I'll open up Samples, and
then I have two folders:
| | 01:04 | on the Mac, I've got AppleScript and
JavaScript and on the PC, VBScript and JavaScript.
| | 01:09 | Inside the JavaScript folder,
there is a wide variety of scripts.
| | 01:12 | We are going to be using the
AnimationEncyclopedia script in a later movie.
| | 01:16 | If we want to find out more
information about this script, or any of these
| | 01:19 | scripts, we can go into our Help system.
| | 01:20 | Let's go to Help > InDesign Help.
| | 01:27 | I am going to click on Adobe Reference only,
so I am only searching the Help system.
| | 01:31 | I am going to type in "scripts".
| | 01:33 | I am going to click on
the second link, Scripting.
| | 01:41 | At the bottom, we can find more
information about each of these scripts.
| | 01:44 | Using scripts may sound complicated,
but if you think of them as extra
| | 01:47 | features inside InDesign, you'll be
happy to find out that they're only a
| | 01:50 | double-click away.
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3. Presentation File Format Options and TipsComparing PDF and SWF presentations| 00:00 | The two main ways to present
from InDesign are SWF or PDF.
| | 00:04 | Each format has its own
advantages and disadvantages;
| | 00:07 | therefore we need to figure out
which is the best fit for presentation.
| | 00:10 | For PDF presentations one of the
advantages is the fact that it's printable.
| | 00:14 | So if you want to be able to print out
the copy of your presentation to give to
| | 00:17 | your audience, you could do it straight
from the PDF that are presenting from.
| | 00:21 | It is also searchable.
| | 00:22 | So if you are trying to find something
on a specific page, you can bring up the
| | 00:25 | Find dialog and look for
what you're trying to find.
| | 00:28 | Bookmarks are supported, so if have a longer
presentation, you can jump to a particular area.
| | 00:32 | It's also more accessible.
| | 00:34 | So for people that use screen-reading devices
they will be able to access your presentation.
| | 00:39 | Finally, it has more media support.
| | 00:40 | It supports legacy media files
such as AVI and MOV, in addition to the
| | 00:44 | Flash video formats.
| | 00:45 | A negative aspect of the PDF
presentation is the lack of animation support.
| | 00:49 | While it is possible to get animation
to work inside a PDF, it is a lot more
| | 00:53 | difficult than inside a SWF file.
| | 00:55 | Finally, you must present from the
Adobe Reader or Acrobat Professional.
| | 00:59 | You can't present from just
any run-of-the-mill PDF program.
| | 01:02 | For a SWF presentation, it
supports most of Acrobat's interactivity.
| | 01:06 | It also supports all of the animation
that you can do inside InDesign directly
| | 01:10 | without having to jump through any hoops.
| | 01:12 | You can also present from a stand-
alone Flash player or inside a web browser.
| | 01:16 | Finally, it supports the fun Page curl effects.
| | 01:19 | A negative of the Flash player is
the fact that you have to use the Flash
| | 01:22 | plug-in or the Flash p layer.
| | 01:23 | If you don't have it installed on your
computer, you're not going to be able
| | 01:25 | to present with it.
| | 01:26 | You also can't use any legacy media.
| | 01:29 | So if you do have any older video
file formats, they're going to have to be
| | 01:31 | converted to Flash video formats
before you can give your presentation.
| | 01:35 | PDF isn't necessarily better than SWF,
and SWF isn't necessarily better than PDF.
| | 01:39 | Each has their own advantages and disadvantages.
| | 01:41 | Now you may be wondering
which file format should you use.
| | 01:44 | It really boils down to what
is your presentation all about.
| | 01:47 | If you have a lot of animations, SWF is
the answer for you, because it supports
| | 01:51 | the native animations from InDesign.
| | 01:53 | But if you want your presentation to
be printable, or more accessible, you
| | 01:56 | probably should be using a PDF.
| | 01:57 | Knowing how you intend to present
your presentation before you begin is a
| | 02:01 | powerful asset, since you can design
your document with an end file type in mind.
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| Presenting from InDesign: Presentation mode| 00:00 | InDesign has many different screen
modes, like Normal, Preview, Bleed, or Slug.
| | 00:04 | A brand-new mode inside CS5 is the
Presentation mode, which allows you to give
| | 00:08 | an impromptu presentation right at your desk.
| | 00:11 | To switch to Presentation mode,
we have a few different options.
| | 00:14 | Inside our Tool panel, I can press and hold
at the bottom and switch to Presentation.
| | 00:19 | I can also go to View > Screen Mode >
Presentation, or I can press the keyboard
| | 00:26 | shortcut Shift+W. Inside Presentation
mode, our multimedia will not work, like
| | 00:32 | animations and buttons.
| | 00:34 | To go to the next page, we can click
our left mouse button, press the Right
| | 00:38 | Arrow key or the Page Down button.
| | 00:41 | To go to a previous page, we can right-
click, press the left arrow, or Page Up.
| | 00:46 | To go to the end of the document,
we can press End or Home to go to the
| | 00:50 | beginning of the document.
| | 00:51 | Right now, there is a black background.
| | 00:53 | But if we hit W, we can get a white
background, and G for gray background.
| | 00:57 | I am going to hit B again to go back to black.
| | 00:59 | When we are finished with our
presentation, we can hit Escape to leave it.
| | 01:03 | If I would like to create a self-running
slideshow, I am going to go to Window >
| | 01:08 | Utilities > Scripts.
| | 01:10 | Then I can run the SlideShow.jsx.
| | 01:14 | To learn to install a script, please
refer to our previous video in this course.
| | 01:18 | To download this script or find
out more information, please visit
| | 01:21 | www.gilbertconsulting.com.
| | 01:24 | Keith Gilbert wrote this amazing script.
| | 01:26 | To run the script, we are
going to double-click at it.
| | 01:28 | The dialog will ask us, how many
seconds do we want in-between each slide?
| | 01:32 | I am going to put three seconds.
| | 01:33 | I could choose to loop at the end, if I
wish, but I don't need to do that right now.
| | 01:37 | Pay attention that I have to press the Escape
key twice in order to close this presentation.
| | 01:41 | I am going to click OK.
| | 01:43 | The presentation will begin, and every three
seconds the slide will pass to the next slide.
| | 01:48 | When you are finished with the presentation,
you can hit the Escape key twice to leave.
| | 01:53 | Presentation mode is not specifically
meant for giving presentations, but if
| | 01:56 | you want to quickly show off your work,
it is useful way to hide distracting
| | 02:00 | elements of the UI.
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| Presenting a SWF| 00:00 | There are two different ways that you
can present a SWF: the stand-alone Flash
| | 00:04 | player projector, or web browser.
| | 00:06 | Regardless of which method you
choose, be sure that you have the necessary
| | 00:09 | software installed before
you begin your presentation.
| | 00:12 | To present from the stand-alone
Flash player projector, you first have to
| | 00:15 | download it from Adobe's web site.
| | 00:18 | On this page, you will need to scroll
down and download the player projector for
| | 00:21 | Windows, Macintosh, or Linux.
| | 00:25 | After installing the projector, you can open
up and use SWF file to give a presentation.
| | 00:29 | To present in Full Screen mode, you
can go to View > Full Screen, or hit
| | 00:33 | Command+F or Ctrl+F on the PC.
| | 00:35 | To navigate inside our document, we
can use the buttons that we've created
| | 00:38 | inside InDesign to go forward or backward.
| | 00:41 | If we would like to use keyboard
shortcuts, we can click on the presentation and
| | 00:44 | press right arrow to go
forward or left arrow to go backward.
| | 00:48 | When you're done with the presentation,
you can hit Escape to leave fullscreen.
| | 00:55 | If you would like to be able to
present your presentation without the Flash
| | 00:57 | player projector, you can create a
stand-alone projector by going to the File
| | 01:01 | menu and going to Create Projector.
| | 01:03 | If you do this, your projector will
only work on the platform that you're on.
| | 01:06 | So if you are on a Mac, you will be
able to create a projector that you can
| | 01:09 | double-click to run your
presentation without having the Flash player
| | 01:12 | projector installed.
| | 01:13 | But it won't work on a PC.
| | 01:14 | You will have to do this on a PC
using the Flash player projector.
| | 01:18 | To present from a web browser, you just
have to have the Flash player installed.
| | 01:22 | You can just open up the HTML file that
was exported from Adobe InDesign CS5.
| | 01:26 | Inside you can use the navigation to
go forward and backward, or the keyboard
| | 01:32 | shortcuts that we learned earlier to navigate.
| | 01:34 | You will notice that you can't go in
Full Screen mode, and there is a gray
| | 01:38 | background around your presentation.
| | 01:40 | Presenting from a web browser may seem
more convenient, but in my opinion it's
| | 01:44 | better to present from a stand-alone
Flash player projector, since it allows you
| | 01:47 | to run your presentations in Full Screen mode.
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| Presenting a PDF| 00:00 | InDesign has had the ability to
export PDFs from its very first version.
| | 00:04 | When most people think of PDFs
they think of print, but they are also
| | 00:07 | wonderful for presentations.
| | 00:09 | If you are going to be giving a
presentation from a PDF, you have to be sure
| | 00:12 | that you are using the free
Adobe Reader or Acrobat Pro.
| | 00:15 | To download a free copy of the Adobe
Reader, you can visit Adobe's web site.
| | 00:18 | When you are giving a presentation
inside Adobe Reader or Acrobat Pro, you should
| | 00:22 | begin by going to the View
menu and going to full screen.
| | 00:24 | You can also hit the keyboard shortcut
Command+L on the Mac or Ctrl+L on the PC.
| | 00:30 | To navigate inside the PDF, we can
use the navigation buttons that we
| | 00:33 | created inside InDesign.
| | 00:35 | We can also click our mouse
anywhere on the page to go forward and
| | 00:39 | right-click to go backward.
| | 00:42 | The Arrow keys on the keyboard will let us go
forward with the Right Arrow key or down arrow.
| | 00:46 | We can press the Up Arrow key
or Left Arrow key to go backward.
| | 00:49 | The End button brings us to the end of
our presentation. The Home button brings
| | 00:53 | us to the beginning of a presentation.
| | 00:55 | When you finish with the
presentation, you can hit Escape to leave.
| | 00:58 | Not all PDF programs will honor the
effects and buttons inside a presentation.
| | 01:02 | Remember that you need to use Acrobat
Pro or Adobe Reader for your presentation
| | 01:06 | to ensure that your effects will work.
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| Creative tip: Practice your presentation| 00:00 | Even the most amazing presentations will
fall short if you've never practiced it before.
| | 00:04 | It's important to do practice runs
of your presentation multiple times to
| | 00:07 | understand when and where to click, the
timing of your animations, and what are
| | 00:10 | you going to be saying on each and every slide.
| | 00:13 | Inside our presentation, I have a
navigation system in the lower right-hand corner.
| | 00:16 | I should practice to see how this
buttons work and interact with my document
| | 00:20 | before I give my presentation.
| | 00:21 | For example, this button
means "go to the next page."
| | 00:25 | By clicking I go to the next page.
I can also go to the last page in my
| | 00:28 | document, previous page, and
the first page of my document.
| | 00:32 | When I am giving a presentation, I
recommend that you keep your mouse near
| | 00:36 | the navigation system,
| | 00:37 | because if your mouse is way off in the
other corner and you are ready to go to
| | 00:40 | the next page, it can be distracting to
your audience to have to manually move
| | 00:44 | your mouse down and try to
find where the button is.
| | 00:46 | In fact, I like to keep my mouse on the
next page button so all I have to do is
| | 00:50 | click to go to the next page.
| | 00:54 | If your slide has a lot of animations
that take a long time, you have to be
| | 00:57 | prepared to talk or narrate
while your animations are coming in.
| | 01:00 | You don't necessarily want to lot of dead
air while you're giving your presentation.
| | 01:04 | You also shouldn't be
reading directly from your slide.
| | 01:07 | It's okay to read what's on it, but if
you only read what's on the slide it's
| | 01:11 | not very interesting.
| | 01:12 | You need to elaborate about what's going on.
| | 01:15 | On the next page, I have a
series of bullets appearing.
| | 01:17 | By knowing how long this takes, I can be
prepared to talk about each bullet as they arrive.
| | 01:22 | By knowing more information for
each of these particular bullets, I can
| | 01:25 | elaborate out them if anyone has
any questions from the audience.
| | 01:30 | On another page, I have another type of event.
| | 01:33 | For this page, the bullets
don't appear automatically.
| | 01:36 | I have it set as an event of a mouse click.
| | 01:38 | So, by clicking I know that
this next bullet will show up,
| | 01:41 | I can talk about it, and take much time as I
need, click again, talk about the next point, and
| | 01:46 | then when I am ready I can
click and go to the last point.
| | 01:49 | If your presentation contains a video
and you are presenting from the Flash
| | 01:52 | player projector, beware of a serious bug
when you're presenting in Full Screen mode.
| | 01:57 | In Full Screen mode, when you get to a
video it will not appear correctly, and it
| | 02:01 | will be hard to give you a presentation.
| | 02:02 | I recommend that you just present
from either the Flash player and stay not
| | 02:06 | fullscreen, or present from a web browser.
| | 02:09 | To play a video, I can just click this button--
| | 02:12 | (Music playing.)
| | 02:15 | and control my video. Finally,
you should practice your speech.
| | 02:18 | If you know that your speech is going
to be about an hour long, have a little
| | 02:22 | more material than an hour, because
sometimes when get nervous you talk a little
| | 02:25 | faster, and you might end early.
| | 02:27 | Even with the best practice, your
presentation may not always be perfect.
| | 02:30 | But by knowing your material inside and
out, giving your presentation will become
| | 02:33 | second nature to you.
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4. Creating a Simple PDF or SWF Slide PresentationWhat we're going to build| 00:00 | Before we dig into the nuts and
bolts of building a presentation,
| | 00:03 | let's preview what we are going to
be creating over the next few movies.
| | 00:06 | Since InDesign allows you to create
presentations for both PDF and SWF,
| | 00:10 | let's take a look at both.
| | 00:12 | If you are going to be presenting a PDF,
you should present it in either Acrobat
| | 00:15 | Professional or the free Adobe Reader.
| | 00:17 | I am inside Acrobat Professional, and I
am going to go to View > Full Screen Mode.
| | 00:23 | I could also hit Command+L, or Ctrl+L on the PC.
| | 00:27 | Inside Full Screen mode, I'll be hiding
distracting elements from the UI, and
| | 00:30 | you'll be able to see screen transitions.
| | 00:32 | In the lower right-hand corner, I have a
series of navigation buttons that allows
| | 00:36 | me to go forward and
backward throughout the document.
| | 00:40 | You'll notice that I have a transition
that occurs between each particular slide.
| | 00:47 | If I jump to the end of the
presentation, I have a series of hyperlinks that
| | 00:51 | brings us to a web site.
| | 00:52 | I'll allow the security warning, and I can
find out more information on the web site.
| | 00:59 | Switching over to the SWF presentation
inside the Flash player, I am going to go
| | 01:03 | to Full Screen mode by going to View >
Full Screen, or hitting Command+F, or Ctrl+F
| | 01:06 | on the PC, and I have the
exact same navigation system.
| | 01:11 | But you'll notice that I've got
animations on every single spread.
| | 01:18 | Both of these presentations were
created from the exact same InDesign file.
| | 01:22 | Now that we have seen what we can
make with InDesign CS5, let's get started
| | 01:26 | building this simple presentation.
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| Previewing your layout with the Preview panel| 00:00 | While it was possible to create basic
interactivity in previous versions of InDesign,
| | 00:04 | it was difficult to preview how well it worked.
| | 00:06 | In order to test your document, you had
to either export your layout to PDF or SWF.
| | 00:11 | InDesign CS5 has a brand-new panel
called the Preview panel, which can let you
| | 00:15 | preview your document directly in
the program without having to export.
| | 00:18 | On the opening page of our presentation,
you'll see that on the words "explore"
| | 00:23 | and "California." In the lower right-hand
corner, there's an icon with a few round circles.
| | 00:28 | These round circles mean that there is
animation on these particular frames.
| | 00:32 | If I select one of them, you'll
see there's a small green line that's
| | 00:35 | showing the motion path.
| | 00:37 | That means that the word "California"
will be moving up, and the word "explore"
| | 00:41 | will be moving down.
| | 00:42 | In a later video, we'll discuss how
to create these types of animations.
| | 00:46 | Since this page will be animating, we
want to preview what it looks like,
| | 00:50 | so we are going to be using the Preview panel.
| | 00:52 | To get to the Preview panel, I want
to be sure that I am working in my
| | 00:55 | Interactivity workspace that I made in
an earlier movie; otherwise I can go to
| | 00:58 | Window > Interactive > Preview.
| | 01:01 | I can also use the keyboard
shortcut Command+Shift+Return or Ctrl+
| | 01:06 | Shift+Enter on the PC.
| | 01:07 | I'm going to go to the Preview panel
and press the Play button, and you'll see
| | 01:16 | that the animation plays immediately.
| | 01:19 | What's happening is InDesign is
quickly writing a temporary SWF file in the
| | 01:22 | background and rendering it inside this panel.
| | 01:25 | You can resize this panel as large or
small as you like by going in the lower corner.
| | 01:32 | If you work with two screens, you can
drag this panel and put on the other
| | 01:35 | screen and have a fullscreen preview
of your document while you are working.
| | 01:38 | I recommend that you use the
keyboard shortcut Command+Shift+Return, or
| | 01:42 | Ctrl+Shift+Enter in the PC, to open and
close this panel because we'll be using
| | 01:45 | this panel frequently throughout the course.
| | 01:48 | To close the panel, I'll just hit
Command+Shift+Return or Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
| | 01:51 | When we use a keyboard shortcut to
open up the Preview panel by default it
| | 01:55 | previews the spread.
| | 01:57 | But if there's more than one page, we
might want to preview the entire document.
| | 02:00 | In the lower right-hand corner,
there's a few different buttons. By default,
| | 02:03 | it's on Preview Spread.
| | 02:04 | We could also preview the entire document or
preview just a selected item on the spread.
| | 02:09 | If you want to preview the entire
document, there is a keyboard shortcut.
| | 02:12 | I can press Command+Option+Shift+Return
on the Mac or Ctrl+Shift+Enter on the PC.
| | 02:17 | Let's try that shortcut.
| | 02:22 | Depending on the number of pages that you have
in your document, this may take a few moments.
| | 02:26 | But now I can use my navigation
buttons and preview the entire document.
| | 02:29 | There are few other
controls for the Preview panel.
| | 02:35 | Inside the Preview panel's panel
menu, we can choose Test in Browser.
| | 02:40 | This will export the SWF temporarily
in the background and open it inside a web
| | 02:43 | browser for you to test.
| | 02:50 | Back inside InDesign, there are
few other settings we can change.
| | 02:53 | Inside the Panel menu, we can
choose Edit Preview Settings.
| | 02:57 | Here we can control the SWF Export
Settings, but we will discuss these
| | 03:00 | settings in a later video.
| | 03:03 | One final place that we can preview our
document are in a few different panels.
| | 03:07 | Inside the Animation panel, there is a
button in the lower left-hand corner that
| | 03:10 | will open the Preview panel.
| | 03:13 | Our Timing panel has the same
button, as well as our Button panel.
| | 03:18 | Being able to test and preview your
document inside InDesign is an invaluable
| | 03:22 | tool when you are creating digital documents.
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| Creative tip: KISS (Keep It Super Simple)| 00:00 | I'm sure that at some point in your
life you've sat through a bad presentation.
| | 00:04 | While there's no way to ensure that every
presentation will be knock-your-socks-off amazing,
| | 00:08 | there are few simple design
guidelines that can help you create
| | 00:11 | better presentations.
| | 00:12 | Whenever you are designing a presentation,
it's best to keep the KISS principle in mind.
| | 00:17 | KISS stands for Keep It Super Simple.
| | 00:19 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is
quoted a saying "less is more" and with
| | 00:23 | presentations that's absolutely true.
| | 00:25 | You don't want to be putting too much
information on a presentation; otherwise
| | 00:29 | you are not going to be
able to read what's onscreen.
| | 00:31 | If you're the one giving the presentation, you
can talk and add information that is relevant.
| | 00:35 | You don't need to read the
entire slide like a teleprompter.
| | 00:38 | If you feel like you need to
add more information, add it.
| | 00:41 | Here's a sample
presentation, with a title slide.
| | 00:43 | This title slide is very
complicated, with too much information.
| | 00:47 | The title is lost, and it's hard to
find, and it's distracting to the viewer.
| | 00:49 | If you were to look at this presentation,
you really wouldn't know what it's about.
| | 00:53 | Eventually, you might find the words
"Explore California," but there are so many
| | 00:56 | pictures it gets lost inside the slide.
| | 00:59 | If you have to include all of this
information, try breaking up into a
| | 01:01 | few different slides.
| | 01:03 | Have a big headline slide with just a
headline and maybe a photo and then put
| | 01:06 | the remaining images on separate slides.
| | 01:08 | Let's take a look at a
better version of the cover. Ah!
| | 01:12 | Much better.
| | 01:13 | We have a large photo with negative
space for our headline text at the top.
| | 01:17 | From a distance, you'll be able to read
this no problem and know exactly what it says.
| | 01:21 | Let's take a look at another page with text.
| | 01:23 | This page has way too much information.
| | 01:25 | I can't read all of this,
especially from a distance.
| | 01:28 | I can't make heads or
tails of what's going on here.
| | 01:30 | There is "Desert to sea," some small
white text I can't read, and then this crazy
| | 01:35 | box with all of this text in here.
| | 01:37 | For a presentation, no one
can follow what's going on.
| | 01:39 | You really want to limit
what you're putting on the page.
| | 01:42 | For the bullets, we might want to move
this information to a separate slide.
| | 01:45 | We can just put the relevant topics, and
we don't have to put all of the sentences.
| | 01:48 | You could read that yourself from notes.
| | 01:50 | As for the type, you might want to
increase its size. The headline could be at
| | 01:54 | least 50-point and for the body text
or the subhead maybe about 30-point.
| | 01:58 | You can always go bigger and maybe a
little smaller, but you don't want to get
| | 02:01 | it too small; otherwise someone from the
other side of the room wouldn't be able
| | 02:03 | to your read your text.
| | 02:05 | We also have too much text over here.
Having an entire paragraph, I can't
| | 02:09 | really read all of this.
| | 02:10 | You might want to limit
it to just a few sentences.
| | 02:12 | Let's take a look at a
cleaner version of this.
| | 02:14 | Ah! That's much better.
| | 02:16 | Now, we can see the text, and we
can read the headline and the subhead.
| | 02:19 | It's readable from a distance,
and it's clear and to the point.
| | 02:21 | Now, let's explore the effects.
| | 02:23 | We are going to learning how to create
amazing animations and effects in this
| | 02:26 | title, but we need to restrain
ourselves from using them too much.
| | 02:31 | Looking at this, someone pressed
every single button that's in the program.
| | 02:35 | Just because something's in the
program, doesn't mean you should use it.
| | 02:37 | If you make everything bold, nothing is bold;
| | 02:40 | animation effects should
be treated the same way.
| | 02:42 | Use them when they need to be used in
an appropriate manner, but don't use them
| | 02:46 | for the sake of using them.
| | 02:47 | Here is a better version.
| | 02:49 | We have duration, cost, and departure
slowly fade in. Nice and tasteful, and it's
| | 02:53 | direct to the point.
| | 02:54 | We don't have to wait a few
moments for everything to coming.
| | 02:57 | It happens very quickly, and we are ready to go.
| | 02:59 | Remember that these are guidelines.
| | 03:01 | Just because I mentioned that
headlines should be at least a certain size,
| | 03:04 | doesn't mean that you can
never make them smaller.
| | 03:06 | As with most guidelines of design,
they are meant to be broken once you
| | 03:09 | understand why they exist.
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| Setting up a presentation with layers| 00:00 | Let's get started creating a
new document for our presentation.
| | 00:03 | We should be working in our custom
interactive workspace that we created in
| | 00:06 | an earlier chapter.
| | 00:07 | After creating our document, we will
set up layers to separate our content in
| | 00:11 | order to manage our file.
| | 00:12 | The first thing we are going to do is go
to the File menu and go to New > Document.
| | 00:16 | You could also hit
Command+N or Ctrl+N on the PC.
| | 00:20 | Inside this dialog, let's change the
Intent from Print to Web, since we are going
| | 00:24 | to be creating a presentation
that's going to be displayed onscreen.
| | 00:27 | When we choose Web, it also changes our
units of measurement to pixels, because
| | 00:30 | pixels is what is an onscreen measurement.
| | 00:32 | Our swatches will also
be in RGB instead of CMYK.
| | 00:35 | We are going to change our number of pages to 8.
| | 00:37 | We also want to make sure
Facing Pages is turned off.
| | 00:41 | The size that we are
going to choose is 1024 x 768.
| | 00:45 | This is a common size of most
projectors, and we can always scale up, but
| | 00:48 | it's hard to scale down.
| | 00:49 | So I recommend you to choose a size
that's going to be the smallest size that
| | 00:52 | you would possibly project at.
| | 00:55 | For our Margins, we are going to
set 30 pixels for all the way round.
| | 00:58 | Then we are going to go to More Options,
and we are going to change our Slug for
| | 01:02 | 300 pixels on the right.
| | 01:04 | A slug is a predetermined area of the pace
board we can choose to include when we output.
| | 01:09 | For this we are putting a slug on the
right-hand side as a placeholder for our notes.
| | 01:12 | We will click OK to make our document.
| | 01:15 | Now that our document is made, we need
to create layers to organize our content.
| | 01:20 | Right now, we only have one layer.
| | 01:21 | Let's rename this layer "Guides".
| | 01:23 | We will double-click on it,
and we will type in "Guides".
| | 01:26 | Now for the next few layers, I am
going to show you few different ways that
| | 01:29 | we can make guides.
| | 01:30 | Let's come down and press the New Layer button.
| | 01:32 | We will double-click on layer 2,
and we will call it "Background".
| | 01:35 | For the next one, it will be "Text".
| | 01:39 | Let's go on the panel menu and choose New Layer.
| | 01:41 | Now we can type in "Text".
| | 01:42 | If I want to create one for images, I
can drag this down to duplicate the layer,
| | 01:48 | and then I can double-
click and call this "Images".
| | 01:51 | But I recommend if you do duplicate a
layer, you change its color so you don't
| | 01:55 | get confused in your layout.
| | 01:56 | I am going to change this one to a nice magenta.
| | 02:01 | Then finally, my favorite way to make a
layer is by holding down Option or Alt
| | 02:04 | and I click on the New Layer button.
| | 02:06 | The dialog will pop up, and I can
type in "Navigation" and click OK.
| | 02:10 | When you find yourself making additional
layers, such as PDF or SWF, animation or
| | 02:15 | even notes, it's not a
problem adding more layers.
| | 02:17 | It helps you keep your documents organized.
| | 02:20 | Now let's learn how these layers work.
| | 02:21 | We are going to go to File > Place, and
inside our Links folder I am going to
| | 02:27 | select the first link, hold my Shift key, and
go down, and we are going to grab five images.
| | 02:31 | I will click Open.
| | 02:32 | Then with my loaded cursor I am going
to hold down Command+Shift on the Mac or
| | 02:37 | Ctrl+Shift on the PC, click
and drag, and draw out a grid.
| | 02:42 | With these images selected, I am
going to change their fitting to Fill
| | 02:45 | frame proportionally.
| | 02:46 | Now you will see that of these
images are on the Navigation layer.
| | 02:50 | They have a dark blue, and you can
see Navigation has a dark blue, and this
| | 02:54 | little square represents that
these items are on that layer.
| | 02:57 | By grabbing this square, I can
move them down to the Image layer.
| | 03:00 | If I want to see each of these
individual images in my Layers panel, I can open
| | 03:04 | up this layer and see all of the images.
| | 03:07 | Each of these are the file names of the image.
| | 03:09 | If I want to rename them, I can click
on that particular name, click and hold,
| | 03:13 | and then type in the name that I want.
| | 03:15 | We will type in barrel.
| | 03:18 | If I want to hide this image, I can
press the little eyeball to hide it.
| | 03:21 | If I want to show it again, I
will press the same eyeball.
| | 03:24 | If I want to hide multiple ones, I can
click and hold my mouse and click and
| | 03:27 | drag across all of them.
| | 03:28 | Then I can click and drag to bring them back.
| | 03:31 | If I want to hide all of the images on
this layer except for this one, I can
| | 03:34 | Option+Click or Alt+Click on that
eyeball, and they will all go away.
| | 03:36 | If I Option+Click or Alt+
Click again, they'll all come back.
| | 03:39 | The same is true for locking.
| | 03:41 | Locking prevents me from editing the image.
| | 03:43 | If I click here, I can lock that image.
| | 03:45 | I can click and hold and lock all of them.
| | 03:48 | Click and hold to bring them back.
| | 03:49 | Or if I Option+Click or Alt+Click, it
will lock all of them but that one.
| | 03:53 | If an image is locked in the layout, you
will see a small lock icon on the image.
| | 03:58 | If I click on this, I can
unlock it from the layout.
| | 04:01 | Let's draw a rectangle.
| | 04:02 | I am going to go over to a toolbar and
grab the Rectangle Frame tool, click and
| | 04:05 | drag, and draw out a rectangle.
| | 04:07 | Let's change its fill color to a solid
black and then select our Selection tool.
| | 04:12 | Now let's give this a name.
| | 04:14 | You could see here it says "rectangle".
| | 04:15 | I am going to call this "black rectangle".
| | 04:17 | Now if I want to put this on the
Navigation layer, if I will close this layer, I
| | 04:26 | can grab this little square and drag
it up to put it on the correct layer.
| | 04:29 | This way I can move items in-between layers.
| | 04:31 | Now one last feature that I want to talk
about inside the Layers panel is a preference.
| | 04:35 | Right now, this rectangle
is on the Navigation layer.
| | 04:38 | If I cut it to the clipboard and go to
the Image layer and paste, it's going to
| | 04:41 | show up on the Image layer.
| | 04:43 | But what if I want it
stay in the Navigation layer?
| | 04:45 | This might cause a problem.
| | 04:46 | So what we are going to do is I am
just going to do a few undos to get back
| | 04:49 | to where I was before.
| | 04:50 | Then I am going into Layers panel
menu and choose Paste Remembers Layers.
| | 04:55 | Now that I have this turned on, when
I cut this to the clipboard, it was on
| | 04:59 | that Navigation layer.
| | 05:00 | Even if I go to another layer and paste, it
will go back to whatever layer it came from.
| | 05:05 | I recommend you to turn this
preference on with your documents to prevent you
| | 05:08 | from moving things to the wrong layer.
| | 05:10 | It may seem like a lot of work to
create layers and keep everything properly
| | 05:13 | named, but by setting up everything
correctly in the beginning of a document's
| | 05:17 | life, you'll really save yourself
a lot of trouble later down the road.
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| Creating a navigation system| 00:00 | In order to let you move from slide to
slide, it is crucial to create a simple
| | 00:04 | and efficient navigation system.
| | 00:06 | We are going to put our
navigation system on the master page.
| | 00:09 | A master page is a special page that
automatically applies information to
| | 00:13 | specific pages in a document.
| | 00:14 | We are going to begin by going to
the A-Master page in our document.
| | 00:18 | Inside our Pages panel,
double-clicks on A-Master.
| | 00:20 | Now, let's rename the A-Master to
something a little more specific.
| | 00:25 | Mouse over the words "A-Master", right-
click or Ctrl+Click your mouse and choose
| | 00:29 | Master Options for "A-Master".
| | 00:32 | We are going to leave the A,
but we are going to name this "Nav".
| | 00:36 | Now that we are in on the Nav
master, we need to create the buttons.
| | 00:39 | Click and hold down the Rectangle
tool and choose the Polygon tool.
| | 00:42 | When you click and drag, you might have
a hexagon or a different shape, but we
| | 00:45 | are just going to change a number of sides.
| | 00:47 | In previous versions of InDesign, you could
use the arrow keys to change a number of sides.
| | 00:52 | But in CS5, if you try to use the arrow
keys, you might start adding more shapes.
| | 00:56 | Well, to change this
behavior, press the Spacebar.
| | 01:00 | When you tap the Spacebar, it
changes to the old way of working.
| | 01:03 | When you use the Down button, it
will change the numbers side down.
| | 01:06 | If you use the Up button, it adds more sides.
| | 01:08 | We are going to go down to
three sides to draw a triangle.
| | 01:12 | After drawing the triangle, I want you
to swap the stroke and fill and switch to
| | 01:16 | your Selection tool.
| | 01:17 | We are going to move it to the center of the
page and then most to the corner and rotate.
| | 01:22 | Hold the Shift key to rotate in
90-degree increments until we get it on its side.
| | 01:27 | Now, let's resize this to a smaller size and
place this in the lower right-hand corner.
| | 01:32 | Let's change its color from 100% black to
15% gray. Click on Tint and type in 15%.
| | 01:37 | Now, let's zoom in so we can see this closer.
| | 01:41 | To help soften this triangle, we are
going to go to Object > Corner Options to
| | 01:45 | give it rounded corners.
| | 01:46 | We'll put in a five-pixel
rounded corner, and we'll click OK.
| | 01:51 | Let's move this to the side because we've
finished creating our Next Page graphic.
| | 01:54 | Now we have to create our Last Page graphic.
| | 01:57 | Hold down your Option or Alt
key and drag a copy to the right.
| | 02:00 | Now, we have to add a rectangle to
make it look like it's the last page.
| | 02:03 | I am going to click and hold the switch
to the regular Rectangle tool, and we'll
| | 02:07 | draw a rectangle the
same height as the triangle.
| | 02:09 | Now, we'll switch to our
Eyedropper tool and sample the formatting.
| | 02:16 | You can see it picked up the
rounded corners and the same color.
| | 02:19 | Let's group these two objects.
| | 02:22 | Now we have a Next Page button and the
Last Page button, but we want to create a
| | 02:25 | Previous Page button and a First Page button.
| | 02:27 | We'll hold the Shift key and select
both of them. Make sure your reference
| | 02:30 | point is in the middle-left. Then Option
or Alt+Click the Flip Horizontal button.
| | 02:34 | This will put a mirrored copy of
them to the left of the images.
| | 02:38 | We can drag this over to separate them,
and let's mouse over so we can see.
| | 02:42 | Now, I want to separate
these graphics from our layout.
| | 02:46 | Let's choose the Rectangle tool and click
and drag a rectangle larger than all of them.
| | 02:51 | Let's swap this stroke and fill and
give them a nice 45% tint background.
| | 02:56 | We are going to go to Object > Arrange > Send
to Back to move them all the way to the back.
| | 03:01 | We'll grab our Selection tool and resize
it so it's a nice appropriate distance.
| | 03:05 | Now, let's add a rounded corner.
Object > Corner Options. We'll put a five-
| | 03:16 | pixel rounded corner.
| | 03:21 | With all of these selected, let's
move it to the lower right-hand corner
| | 03:24 | and preview the layout.
| | 03:27 | If it looks too large, we can
always make it smaller, but I think it's
| | 03:29 | appropriate right now.
| | 03:30 | We can close the Preview panel.
| | 03:31 | Now, let's create functional buttons.
| | 03:34 | I am going to select the Next
graphic and open the Button panel.
| | 03:37 | I'll click on the appearance Normal to
create a button, and I am going to name it "Next".
| | 03:44 | I want to give it the Action, so when the
user clicks on it, it goes to the next page.
| | 03:48 | We are going to add an appearance to
let you know when you roll over the button.
| | 03:51 | So we'll click on Rollover, and we are
going to change it fill to 100% black.
| | 03:56 | Let's leave its appearance at Normal, and now
let's repeat the process for the other buttons.
| | 04:00 | Let's select the Last Page button
and add the action Go to Last Page.
| | 04:07 | We'll name it "Last", and
we'll add a rollover of 100%.
| | 04:16 | We'll put it back to normal, and then we'll
repeat the process for the remaining two.
| | 04:19 | This will be the Previous page.
| | 04:22 | We'll name it "Previous"
and add a rollover of 100%.
| | 04:31 | Then finally, First page and
rollover of 100%. Now, let's test.
| | 04:45 | As you can see, they work.
| | 04:47 | As we roll over, each of them change.
| | 04:49 | If we had extra pages in the document with
different content we'd be able to see that.
| | 04:53 | Whenever you find yourself creating new
interactive content, it's a good idea to
| | 04:57 | get in the habit of testing
it with the Preview panel.
| | 04:59 | This way if something that you have
created isn't working properly, you can go
| | 05:02 | back and fix it while it's fresh in your mind.
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| Creating a title and content slides| 00:00 | Just about every page of
InDesign has a tiny letter on it.
| | 00:03 | This means it is connected to a master page,
| | 00:05 | similar to how PowerPoint
and Keynote have master slides.
| | 00:09 | We have already created a navigation
master that we worked on in the previous
| | 00:13 | video, but now let's create
a title and a content slide.
| | 00:16 | Let's begin by creating another master page.
| | 00:18 | I am going to go to our Pages
Panel menu and choose New Master.
| | 00:21 | We're going to base it on the
A-nav, which we made earlier.
| | 00:26 | Let's name it "Title".
| | 00:27 | We'll make one more.
| | 00:30 | Go to the Panel menu. Choose New Master.
| | 00:33 | We'll base it on the A-nav,
and we'll call it "Content".
| | 00:35 | Now, let's go back to the title master.
| | 00:42 | On the title master, we're going
to select the background layer, grab
| | 00:46 | the Graphic Frame tool,
| | 00:47 | and we're going to click and drag
and draw a background frame.
| | 00:52 | Let's lock that layer.
| | 00:54 | This way, we have a frame ready to put
our background graphic in, but we don't
| | 00:57 | have to accidentally select it.
| | 00:59 | Now that we've finished the background,
let's create some text frames for our headlines.
| | 01:02 | I'm going to go to the text layer, grab my
Type tool, and click and drag a large text frame.
| | 01:08 | Let's type out headline, and then
we'll come over to our Paragraph Styles.
| | 01:12 | Now, there are already some paragraph
styles made in here, which I've made earlier.
| | 01:16 | To learn more about paragraph styles,
please watch David Blatner's InDesign
| | 01:19 | CS5 Essential Training.
| | 01:21 | I'm going to select Headline, and
apply the paragraph style Title - 1st half.
| | 01:25 | I'll grab my Type tool, I'll click and
drag, and draw another large text frame,
| | 01:30 | and I'm going to type out "subhead", apply
the paragraph style. Title - 2nd half.
| | 01:36 | With my black Selection tool, I
can position these in the nice
| | 01:38 | tasteful appearance.
| | 01:40 | Finally, I'll grab my Type tool,
click and drag, and draw a large frame,
| | 01:44 | right-click my mouse, and
choose Fill with Placeholder Text.
| | 01:46 | I don't need most of this text, so I'm
going to click and drag and remove most of it.
| | 01:51 | Now, I'll grab my Selection tool, go
over to Object Styles, and click on the
| | 01:57 | object style, Intro Text.
| | 01:59 | If all the text doesn't fit, I can come
in here and delete some of the extra text.
| | 02:02 | Looks like I need to get rid of
a little more. There we go.
| | 02:06 | That looks good.
| | 02:07 | Grab my Selection tool, and
I'll place this at a good position.
| | 02:10 | Now, my title slide is complete, and
we can move onto the content slide.
| | 02:14 | I am going to come over to the
content master page. Double-click.
| | 02:17 | I am going to unlock the background
layer, select it, and draw another
| | 02:21 | large graphic frame.
| | 02:28 | I'll relock that layer, go to the Image
layer, grab my Rectangle tool, and click
| | 02:34 | and drag, and draw a large rectangle.
| | 02:35 | I'm going to remove the stroke
and apply a 35% gray background.
| | 02:44 | Next, I'll go to Object > Corner Options.
| | 02:47 | I'm going to unlink the middle, and
I'm going to put a rounded 30-pixel
| | 02:52 | corner on opposite sides.
| | 03:00 | Next, with the Rectangle tool, I'm
going to draw a rectangle that comes in from
| | 03:03 | the upper-left corner.
| | 03:04 | I will remove the stroke and
apply a 55% tint background.
| | 03:11 | Next, I'm going to go to the text layer.
| | 03:14 | Now unfortunately, when I created my
layers, I put the text underneath the
| | 03:17 | images, when in reality, text
should always be above your images.
| | 03:20 | So I'm going to grab the text layer,
and drag it above the image layer.
| | 03:22 | Now, I'm going to lock the image layer,
grab my Type tool, and draw a large
| | 03:27 | text frame to fill in the background.
| | 03:30 | Inside this frame, I'm going to
type in "subhead", return, "bullet".
| | 03:36 | I'll select subhead, go to Paragraph
Styles, and apply the Subhead paragraph style.
| | 03:42 | I'll select bullet, go inside my
Paragraph Styles, and apply the style Bullet Copy.
| | 03:46 | I can select both of these, copy it to the
clipboard, and then paste it in a few more times.
| | 03:53 | Next, with my Type tool, I'll click and
drag, draw one more frame up here, and
| | 03:57 | type in "Tour Info" and finally,
apply the paragraph style Tour header.
| | 04:03 | With my black Selection tool, I can move this
over and position this at the correct place.
| | 04:08 | Now, this master page is complete.
| | 04:10 | We can apply these masters to our document.
| | 04:12 | I'm going to double-click to go to
page 1, and now I can click and drag and
| | 04:16 | apply the title page to page 1.
| | 04:17 | I can apply another title to page 2,
content to page 3, and title to page 4.
| | 04:23 | Now, as I scroll through this document,
I can see how all of the pages change.
| | 04:29 | Master pages make it easy to
keep your layouts consistent.
| | 04:32 | If you need to change the position of
something, or put something on a certain
| | 04:35 | page, they'll update across your layout
on every page that they're applied to.
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| Overriding master page items| 00:00 | Now that we've created the masters,
let's begin to place content on these pages.
| | 00:04 | If I try to select this text,
I can't seem to grab it.
| | 00:08 | The reason is it's a master page item.
| | 00:10 | You notice these small dots?
| | 00:12 | These means it's connected to the
master page, and it isn't currently editable.
| | 00:15 | I'm going to hold Command+Shift on the
Mac, or Ctrl+Shift on the PC, and click
| | 00:19 | on each of these frames.
| | 00:22 | Now that they are overridden, I can
edit them or delete them if I wish.
| | 00:25 | I'm going to double-click in, and I'm
going to type in "CALIFORNIA" and "explore".
| | 00:34 | Let's change their colors.
| | 00:35 | I'll select explore, go to my
swatches, and choose Explore Pink.
| | 00:41 | Let's select CALIFORNIA and choose Explore Gray.
| | 00:44 | I will grab my Selection tools, and I will
move this around to position this better.
| | 00:53 | Next, I hold Command+Shift or
Ctrl+Shift on the PC, override this frame, and
| | 00:57 | then deselect, select it again, and
delete it because I don't need it.
| | 01:01 | Next, I need to add an image for the background.
| | 01:04 | Now, you might me tempted to override
this background frame and then place a
| | 01:06 | graphic in it, but there
is another way to do this.
| | 01:08 | I'm going to go to File >
Place and grab goldengate.jpg.
| | 01:16 | With my loaded cursor on the
pasteboard, you'll notice that there are
| | 01:19 | two straight lines:
| | 01:20 | there is one vertical and one horizontal.
| | 01:22 | This means that it's going
to make a brand-new frame.
| | 01:24 | But when I mouse over a frame that's
connected to a master page, you'll see it will
| | 01:28 | have the curved lines on either side.
| | 01:29 | The curved lines on either side of the
paintbrush means it's going to override
| | 01:33 | the master page frame and
place the graphic inside it.
| | 01:36 | I'll click and it goes inside.
| | 01:37 | Now I can mark this background frame,
so I don't have to accidentally grab it.
| | 01:41 | Now our title page is done,
and it looks really nice.
| | 01:45 | Let's move on to the third page.
| | 01:48 | On the third page, I need to
override a quite of few frames.
| | 01:50 | Now, rather than doing them one by one,
I'm going to hold down the same shortcut
| | 01:54 | command--Shift on the Mac or Ctrl+Shift
on the PC--but I'm going to click and
| | 01:57 | drag to select the items
that I want to override.
| | 01:59 | When I release, all of these items are override.
| | 02:02 | The background graphic wasn't
overridden because that layer was locked.
| | 02:05 | I'm going to unlock that layer, deselect,
and then we are going to place ocean.
| | 02:11 | I can click on that frame, and it goes
inside, and now I can relock that layer again.
| | 02:18 | Let's select the background graphic and
change its color to Desert Green, Tint
| | 02:25 | 100%, and then this other
graphic to Desert Tan, Tint 100%.
| | 02:34 | I'm going to select the text. I'm going to
change it to "DURATION", "1 week", "COST",
| | 02:48 | "$2500/person", and
"DEPARTURE", "01/13/10 and 07/04/10".
| | 03:05 | I'll select all of this and make it be Paper.
| | 03:12 | If you want to override everything on
the spread, you can also do this from
| | 03:15 | the Page Panel menu.
| | 03:16 | Be careful overriding everything
because sometimes you may not want to.
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| Setting page transitions| 00:00 | When we view our presentation
fullscreen in Acrobat, or any view size in Flash,
| | 00:05 | the shift between each
page can be pretty abrupt.
| | 00:07 | To help soften the shift, we
can create page transitions.
| | 00:11 | We're going to begin by selecting page
1 and right-clicking our mouse and choosing
| | 00:15 | Page Transitions > Choose.
| | 00:19 | Inside this dialog, we are presented
with a range of options. When we mouse over
| | 00:23 | each icon, we'll see a graphic
representation of what the transition would be.
| | 00:27 | So we have Comb, Box, Blinds, Fade, and so on.
| | 00:32 | You will notice says Page Turn says
SWF Only. This means that this transition
| | 00:36 | will only work when the export to Flash.
| | 00:38 | I'm going to choose Fade for
the first page and click OK.
| | 00:42 | Next, we'll go to page 2, and this time I'm
going to open the Page Transitions panel.
| | 00:47 | If you don't have this panel open, go to
Window > Interactive > Page Transitions.
| | 00:53 | Inside this panel, I'm going to
choose Push, Down, and Medium.
| | 00:58 | If I want to apply this to every
single page, I could hit this icon.
| | 01:02 | Next, we'll go to page 3, and I want to
apply Fade to all of the odd pages,
| | 01:09 | so I'm going to hold down Command or
Ctrl and select the remaining odd pages.
| | 01:17 | With these page is selected, I'll go
to the Transition panel and choose Fade.
| | 01:22 | Next, I'll select the
remaining even pages and choose Push.
| | 01:32 | Now that I have my transitions
finished, let's preview our document.
| | 01:35 | We're going to go to File > Export >
Adobe PDF (Interactive). We'll place this on
| | 01:42 | our Desktop and click Save.
| | 01:44 | Inside this dialog, we want to make sure
we say View After Exporting for all of
| | 01:48 | the pages and Page Transitions
we want to choose From Document.
| | 01:52 | This way the PDF will pick up all
the transitions that we set up.
| | 01:55 | If we'd want to override them,
we could say None or to a
| | 01:58 | specific transition.
| | 01:59 | We'll click OK, and our PDF will open.
| | 02:05 | Next, we'll go to View > Full Screen mode,
and we can use our navigation system
| | 02:11 | to navigate between the pages.
| | 02:14 | As we go between each page, we'll be
able to see the transition in action.
| | 02:18 | Keep in mind that the transitions that
you choose for a page will be the effect
| | 02:22 | that happens when you navigate to that page.
| | 02:24 | For example, if you choose Fade on the
first page, you'll only see this when you
| | 02:28 | navigate to that page.
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| Creating hyperlinks| 00:00 | We can easily create hyperlinks to web
sites or e-mail by using the Hyperlinks panel.
| | 00:04 | On this slide, I have a list of tours
for Explore California that I want you to
| | 00:09 | click on to visit the web
site for more information.
| | 00:11 | On the pasteboard in our document, I
have two different hyperlinks that
| | 00:14 | we're going to be using.
| | 00:16 | I'm going to select the first
one and copy it to the clipboard.
| | 00:19 | Next, I'm going to select Backpack
California, open the Hyperlinks panel, and paste
| | 00:24 | in the URL, and hit Enter or Return.
| | 00:26 | Now I've created a hyperlink to this
web site for the text "Backpack California."
| | 00:31 | If I want to control the options for
this hyperlink, I can double-click on the
| | 00:34 | words "Backpack California".
| | 00:36 | Inside the options, I
could change its Appearance.
| | 00:39 | If you have a visible rectangle,
you might want to make it invisible.
| | 00:42 | We could also apply a character
style if we like. We can click OK.
| | 00:46 | The rest of these links are going to
link to the same page on our web site, since
| | 00:49 | these pages are still under development.
| | 00:51 | I'm going to copy this URL to the
clipboard, select California Calm, and paste it in.
| | 00:57 | Since the rest of these items are
going to the same URL, there is a different
| | 01:01 | technique that we're going to use.
| | 01:02 | When I select Cycle California,
inside the URL there is a dropdown menu,
| | 01:07 | and you can choose the URL that we made earlier.
| | 01:09 | I will repeat this for the rest.
| | 01:12 | Finally, I want you'll be able to send
any questions that you have about the
| | 01:15 | tours to a specific e-mail address.
| | 01:17 | With "questions?" selected, I'm going to
go into the Hyperlink Panel menu and
| | 01:20 | choose New Hyperlink.
| | 01:21 | Now I'm going to choose Link To > Email.
| | 01:25 | I'm going to type in the e-mail address:
info@explorecalifornia.org. The Subject
| | 01:37 | will be "Questions", and we'll click OK.
| | 01:40 | Now let's preview our hyperlinks.
| | 01:44 | We'll open up the Preview panel, and
inside the panel, we can click on any of the
| | 01:49 | hyperlinks to see if they work.
| | 01:52 | Let's go back into the layout and try another.
| | 01:59 | If you try to test your hyperlinks
inside a PDF or SWF file, you might get
| | 02:03 | a security warning.
| | 02:04 | This way inside the Preview panel we can
avoid having to deal with any security warnings.
| | 02:08 | When we click on "questions?"
| | 02:10 | it will launch our default e-mail application.
| | 02:14 | Inside your e-mail application, it will
compose a new e-mail to the address that
| | 02:17 | we specified, with the subject that we typed.
| | 02:20 | Hyperlinks don't have to be used just
for e-mail and web sites; they can also be
| | 02:23 | used for links within a document.
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| Using the slug for notes| 00:00 | When we created this document, we
included a slug off to the right-hand side.
| | 00:04 | We're going to use this area to
keep our presenter and audience notes.
| | 00:08 | On the right-hand side of our page,
we're going to grab our Type tool and click
| | 00:12 | and drag and draw a large text frame.
| | 00:14 | Inside here I can enter any notes that are
relevant for this particular slide as a presenter.
| | 00:18 | For example, on the first page I'm
going to enter "Don't forget to mention the
| | 00:22 | coupon code 'explorecal10' for 10% off your order".
| | 00:27 | After entering this, I'm going to select the
frame and apply the object style Notes.
| | 00:38 | Now that I've created presenter notes,
let's create another layer for audience notes.
| | 00:42 | Now I'm going to hide this layer and
Option+Click or Alt+Click to create a new
| | 00:46 | layer and type in "Audience Notes".
| | 00:52 | On this layer, I'm going to use my
type tool, click and drag, try another text
| | 00:56 | frame, but this time I'm just going to
hit Enter quite a few times and then
| | 01:02 | select all these enters, go to your
Control Panel's menu and choose Paragraph Rules.
| | 01:10 | Move it out of the way and click
Preview, and we're going to add a rule
| | 01:13 | below and turn it on.
| | 01:16 | Next, with all of these selected, we're
going to go into Space After and increase
| | 01:21 | the amount of space after,
until it fills up the page.
| | 01:26 | Now your audience would have a
space to keep track of notes as you're
| | 01:28 | giving your presentation.
| | 01:29 | If I want to print out this
presentation and include the notes, I would go to
| | 01:34 | File > Print. In the Print dialog, I'm
going to go into Setup, and I'm going to
| | 01:39 | choose Scale To Fit.
| | 01:41 | Next, I'm going to go to Marks and
Bleed and then turn on Include Slug Area.
| | 01:46 | This way the slug area
is included when I output.
| | 01:49 | That way when I print out my
presentation my notes are included for the audience
| | 01:53 | so they have a place to
keep track of their own notes.
| | 01:55 | Before you print, don't
forget to check your layers.
| | 01:58 | If you have the wrong layer active, you
may find yourself wasting a lot of paper.
| | 02:02 | In addition, you can create custom
print preset for presentations that
| | 02:06 | includes your slug area.
| | 02:07 | Now that we have finished creating a
simple presentation, we can move on to some
| | 02:11 | more advanced techniques in the next chapter.
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5. Adding Advanced PDF Presentation OptionsAdding a Full Screen button with a tool tip| 00:00 | Presenting in Full Screen mode let's
you see your page transitions and hides
| | 00:03 | distracting elements of the UI.
| | 00:05 | To make it easier to enter fullscreen,
we're going to add a button that lets
| | 00:09 | you to enter and exit fullscreen from a PDF.
| | 00:12 | To create a Full Screen button, we're
going to go to the master page called
| | 00:14 | A-Nav. Let's double-click.
| | 00:17 | Next, we're going to place a snippet.
| | 00:18 | I'm going to go to File > Place, and
inside my Links folder, I have a snippets
| | 00:23 | directory, and I'm going to select
fullscreen_button.idms and click Open.
| | 00:30 | With my loaded cursor, I'm going to click
and put this in the lower left-hand corner.
| | 00:34 | I'm just going to move this down here.
| | 00:36 | Next, I'm going to zoom in
so we can see this closer.
| | 00:41 | With this graphic selected,
let's go over to our Button panel.
| | 00:44 | If you don't have the Button panel showing,
you can go to Window > Interactive > Buttons.
| | 00:48 | Let's convert this into a button.
| | 00:51 | We're going to click on Normal, and
we're going to name it "Fullscreen".
| | 00:57 | Now we need to add Action so when you
click on it you can go into Full Screen mode.
| | 01:00 | We're going to click on
Actions > PDF Only > View Zoom.
| | 01:06 | The zoom level that we're
going to choose is Full Screen.
| | 01:09 | This action will only work inside a PDF.
| | 01:11 | It will not work inside a SWF.
| | 01:12 | Now let's create a rollover
appearance for this button.
| | 01:15 | I'm going to click on Rollover,
go to the button, and double-click.
| | 01:21 | With the background of this object
selected, I'm going to my Fill and choose black.
| | 01:26 | Then I'm going to go to
my Stroke and choose black.
| | 01:32 | Next, I need to select the arrow.
| | 01:33 | I'm going to deselect, select the button
again and then double-click to select the arrow.
| | 01:39 | With the arrow selected, I'm going to
change it to fill the paper, and now
| | 01:44 | I'm going to deselect.
| | 01:45 | Let's select the button again and
change its appearance to Normal.
| | 01:50 | If we open our Preview panel, we can
quickly preview to see if the Button's
| | 01:53 | appearance is working.
| | 01:54 | When we mouse over the button,
it looks like it's working.
| | 01:58 | We can close the panel.
| | 02:00 | Now that we have the button
finished, let's add a tooltip.
| | 02:02 | A tooltip is a little pop-up window that
lets you know the purpose of the button.
| | 02:06 | If you have a lot of buttons in your
presentation, that can be confusing. But by
| | 02:10 | adding tooltips, we know exactly what they mean.
| | 02:12 | With this button selected, we're
going to go to our Button panel, inside the
| | 02:16 | panel menu, and choose PDF Options.
| | 02:21 | I'm going to type in "Click to enter
and leave full screen mode" because we can
| | 02:24 | press this button to enter
and leave Full Screen mode.
| | 02:30 | Let's create some
tooltips for the other buttons.
| | 02:33 | This is the First Page button.
| | 02:34 | We'll go to the Buttons Panel
menu and choose PDF Options.
| | 02:39 | Let's type in "Go to first page".
| | 02:44 | This is the Previous Page button.
| | 02:45 | We'll go to the Button Panel
menu and choose PDF Options.
| | 02:54 | The next button will be "Go to next
page", and finally, "Go to last page".
| | 03:09 | Now that we have all these buttons
finished, let's export to an interactive PDF.
| | 03:13 | File > Export > Adobe PDF (Interactive),
on our Desktop. We'll click Save, we'll
| | 03:20 | View it After Exporting, and click OK.
| | 03:22 | Now looking at our PDF, when we mouse
over one of the buttons it'll say, "Go to
| | 03:30 | next page," "Go to last page," and "Click
to enter and leave full screen mode."
| | 03:38 | When you click the button to enter Full
Screen mode, Acrobat will display a warning.
| | 03:42 | We can click Remember my choice for
this document, and then we'll never have to
| | 03:45 | see this warning again. Let's hit Yes.
| | 03:49 | Now in Full Screen mode my tooltips still work.
| | 03:52 | I could give my presentation, and I
can click and leave Full Screen mode.
| | 03:57 | Tooltips are a great way to convey a
button's meaning, but they don't have to be
| | 04:00 | used just for regular buttons.
| | 04:02 | If you're giving a presentation with
a lot of images, you could create a
| | 04:04 | button that's invisible, and on that button
add a tooltip that tells you about that image.
| | 04:09 | That way, during the presentation if you
forget what to say, you can always mouse
| | 04:12 | over that picture, and the
tooltip can give you a reminder.
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| Creating PDF bookmarks in InDesign| 00:00 | If you've ever viewed a really long PDF
document, like a manual or a book, you
| | 00:04 | might've come across the Bookmark
panel in Adobe reader or Acrobat.
| | 00:08 | If you're looking for a certain part of
a PDF, it is valuable to quickly get
| | 00:12 | to that area that you want to
read just by clicking the bookmark.
| | 00:15 | While it's possible to create
these bookmarks in Acrobat Pro,
| | 00:18 | it is far easier to create them inside InDesign.
| | 00:20 | Let's get started creating some
bookmarks inside this presentation.
| | 00:24 | We're going to begin by
opening up the Bookmarks panel.
| | 00:27 | If you don't have this Bookmark panel open,
you can go to Window > Interactive > Bookmarks.
| | 00:32 | What we're going to do is we're
going to select the word "explore", and
| | 00:36 | we're going to press New.
| | 00:38 | Inside it names it "explore",
the text that was selected.
| | 00:41 | I want to name this Explore California.
| | 00:43 | Now let's make a bookmark for the next page.
| | 00:48 | I'm going to double-click on page 2,
select Desert To, and make a new bookmark.
| | 00:54 | It's going to put the text "Desert to" in,
and I'm going to change this to Desert to Sea.
| | 00:58 | I'm going to copy this text to the clipboard.
| | 01:04 | When I go to page 3, I'm going to
select Tour Info, make another bookmark, and
| | 01:08 | I'm going to paste in Desert to Sea in
front of it, because this is the Tour
| | 01:13 | Info for Desert to Sea.
| | 01:14 | Now I'm going to repeat this
process for the rest of the pages.
| | 01:24 | Now that we have all these bookmarks
finished, let's organize them with a
| | 01:27 | process called nesting.
| | 01:29 | Nesting is the process of putting the
bookmarks inside each other in little
| | 01:32 | groups, so they're a little more organized.
| | 01:33 | I'm going to grab Desert to Sea and
drag it inside Explore California and
| | 01:37 | then Desert to Sea: Tour Info
and put that inside Desert to Sea.
| | 01:40 | I'm just going to repeat this process
and keep putting the Tour Info inside the
| | 01:44 | one that's above it.
| | 01:46 | This way we can dial it down to get to
the Tour Info, but if we don't need to
| | 01:49 | see the Tour Info, it's
not going to be on our way.
| | 01:57 | Now, I have all the bookmarks nested.
| | 01:58 | I can collapse them all and just see
Explore California for the presentation.
| | 02:02 | But if I open it up I can see all of
the sections and if I need to go to the
| | 02:05 | Tour Info, I can see it.
| | 02:06 | Now these bookmarks will be useful
inside the PDF, but they also can be used
| | 02:10 | inside the InDesign layout.
| | 02:11 | If I want to jump to a page, I can
just double-click on the bookmark, and
| | 02:15 | it brings me to that page.
| | 02:17 | Now that these are finished,
let's export to an interactive PDF.
| | 02:21 | File > Export > Adobe PDF
(Interactive), to our Desktop.
| | 02:27 | We'll click Save. We'll make sure View PDF
After Exporting is turned on. We'll click OK.
| | 02:34 | Now that we're inside Acrobat, we have
access to our bookmarks, but we don't
| | 02:38 | see them right away.
| | 02:39 | If you were to going to give this PDF to
someone else, they might not realize
| | 02:41 | that you have bookmarks.
| | 02:43 | Using Acrobat professional, we can set up
the initial view of the document to always
| | 02:46 | display the bookmarks.
| | 02:47 | We're going to go to File > Properties
> Initial View, and change the Navigation
| | 02:54 | tab to Bookmark panel, and click OK.
| | 02:58 | I'm going to open this right now, and when
I save this PDF, the next time I open it
| | 03:05 | the Bookmark panel will be open immediately.
| | 03:07 | If I want to jump to any of the pages,
just like inside InDesign, I can click on
| | 03:10 | the bookmark, and it brings me to the page.
| | 03:13 | Having your Bookmarks panel open is a
great way to encourage people to use
| | 03:16 | them inside your PDF.
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| Using a button to go to a specific page in a PDF| 00:00 | In this version of my presentation,
I've created an alternate title slide.
| | 00:04 | I want to click on each icon to go to that page.
| | 00:06 | In order to do this, I'm going to
create buttons for every thumbnail.
| | 00:10 | Let's begin by selecting the first slide.
| | 00:12 | With this selected,
let's go to our Button panel.
| | 00:14 | I'm going to create a Normal and Rollover state.
| | 00:16 | On the Normal state, I'm going
to change the opacity to 40%.
| | 00:22 | Next I'm going to name it p2, because when I
click on this, I want to go to the second page.
| | 00:28 | Now, I want to add an action
to go to the second page.
| | 00:30 | By clicking on Actions, and I choose Go To
Page, you'll see it's under SWF only, but
| | 00:35 | I want it to be PDF and SWF.
| | 00:37 | So instead of choosing Go To Page,
I'm going to choose Go To Destination.
| | 00:43 | When you choose Go To Destination, I
have a few destinations available, and one
| | 00:47 | of them is Explore California.
| | 00:49 | The reason I have some destinations
available is because I made bookmarks earlier.
| | 00:53 | Now if I have already created bookmark
inside my document, I would have access
| | 00:56 | to every single page.
| | 00:58 | But if you haven't done that, don't worry.
| | 01:00 | I'm just going to make one for this first page.
| | 01:03 | Next, I'm going to repeat
the process for the next two.
| | 01:05 | I'll go to Normal, Rollover,
add a Normal state, 40% opacity.
| | 01:13 | Let's name it p3 to go to third page,
Go To Destination, Desert to Sea.
| | 01:21 | This slide, same thing.
| | 01:23 | We'll go to Normal, 40% opacity,
| | 01:28 | we'll give it a name--p4--and the Action, Go
To Destination, Desert to Sea: Tour Info.
| | 01:34 | But I don't have any more
destinations for these buttons.
| | 01:37 | Now, if you don't have any, don't
worry. There's another way to do this
| | 01:40 | without creating bookmarks.
| | 01:42 | Let's close this panel and deselect.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to go to page 5. Instead of
making a bookmark, I'm going to put my
| | 01:50 | cursor in front of the t, in "taste of".
| | 01:54 | Inside my Hyperlink panel, I'm going
to go into the Hyperlink Panel menu and
| | 01:58 | choose New Hyperlink Destination.
| | 02:00 | I'm going to choose Text Anchor, and I'm
going to type out what I want that anchor to be.
| | 02:09 | Creating a text anchor is very
similar to creating a bookmark.
| | 02:11 | Now, I want to go back to page 1.
| | 02:13 | I'm going to create a button for this page.
| | 02:19 | Let's add 40% opacity.
| | 02:28 | We'll name it p5, and we'll add the
action, Go To Destination, and Taste of
| | 02:35 | California is there for us to choose.
| | 02:39 | Now that I have this finished,
let's make a PDF and test.
| | 02:42 | Let's put this on our Desktop, Adobe PDF
interactive, View After Exporting. We'll click OK.
| | 02:55 | Now each of these thumbnails has a
nice rollover effect, and when I click on
| | 02:58 | them, we go to that page.
| | 03:01 | If you've already created bookmarks, adding
buttons to go to specific page is pretty simple.
| | 03:05 | However, if you don't have any
bookmarks, creating text anchors is a nice
| | 03:09 | work around.
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| Using animation inside a PDF presentation| 00:00 | A new area of InDesign CS5 is
the ability to create animation.
| | 00:04 | In another chapter, we'll learn how to do
this. But for now I want to address how
| | 00:07 | we can use animation inside a PDF.
| | 00:10 | On the first page of this presentation,
let's take a look at the animation.
| | 00:13 | I am going to preview this
spread with the Preview panel.
| | 00:16 | As you can see, "explore" and
"California" fade in slowly.
| | 00:20 | Let's take a look at this inside a PDF.
| | 00:21 | I am going to close this
panel, and go to File > Export.
| | 00:25 | On my Desktop, I am going to save
it as Adobe PDF (Interactive). p1.pdf.
| | 00:32 | I am going to change the range to Page 1.
| | 00:35 | I am going to view it
after exporting, and click OK.
| | 00:41 | As you can see in the PDF, it's static.
| | 00:43 | Unfortunately, InDesign cannot pass
along this information into a PDF directly,
| | 00:47 | but we do have a simple workaround.
| | 00:48 | Let's close this and go back into InDesign.
| | 00:52 | Back inside InDesign, we have to create a
couple of guides to line up the animation.
| | 00:56 | I am going to go to my Guides layer and
draw out a couple of guides to the left
| | 01:00 | and right edge of this animation.
| | 01:06 | Next, I am going to put one
at the bottom and the top.
| | 01:09 | Now I am going to hold Shift and select
both of the animated elements, and I am
| | 01:14 | going to go to File > Export.
| | 01:18 | In Export, I am going to go to
Flash Player (SWF), p1.swf, and click Save.
| | 01:25 | Inside my dialog, I want to be on
Selection, and I don't need an HTML file, and
| | 01:29 | I want to be scaled at 100% with a
transparent background. I'll click OK.
| | 01:34 | Next, I am going to hide the text
layer and create a brand-new layer by
| | 01:38 | Option+Clicking or Alt+
Clicking the New Layer button.
| | 01:41 | We'll name this "SWF" and click OK.
| | 01:44 | Now that we are on this layer, we're
going to go to File > Place. On our Desktop,
| | 01:49 | we are going to grab p1.swf and click Open.
| | 01:54 | With my loaded cursor, I am going
to place this where the guides meet.
| | 01:57 | Next, I am going to open the Media
panel and choose Play on Page Load.
| | 02:02 | Let's preview the
animation with the Preview panel.
| | 02:06 | Looking at the animation inside the
Preview panel, you can see that it plays
| | 02:09 | correctly, but it's at the wrong position.
| | 02:11 | Let's move the play SWF
file into the correct position.
| | 02:14 | We'll close the panel. With the
Selection tool we'll select the play SWF and
| | 02:18 | move it up slightly.
| | 02:20 | Next, let's preview it inside our
Preview panel, and now it's placed in
| | 02:25 | the correct position.
| | 02:26 | We'll close the panel.
| | 02:27 | Now that we are finished, let's
export this to a PDF and take a look.
| | 02:30 | We're going to go to File > Export.
| | 02:34 | This time, we'll call it presentation.
| | 02:35 | I am going to change the format
to Interactive PDF and click Save.
| | 02:43 | We'll put the range to 1-2--
| | 02:45 | we don't need the entire
presentation right now--and click OK.
| | 02:47 | Now when we are looking at this,
you're probably thinking, "Wait a minute.
| | 02:54 | This isn't working!"
| | 02:55 | Well, we can fix this.
| | 02:56 | There is a little bug that's happening
when you export to an interactive PDF.
| | 03:00 | Unfortunately, InDesign doesn't
transfer the PDF correctly into Acrobat.
| | 03:04 | In order to fix this, we have to the
manually select the play SWF and turn on the
| | 03:07 | transparent background.
| | 03:08 | We can go to our Tool panel, right-click
or Ctrl+Click and choose Advanced Editing.
| | 03:13 | We're going to grab the Select
Object tool and select the play SWF.
| | 03:18 | Right-click or Ctrl+Click your mouse
and go to Properties, and we are going to
| | 03:21 | change Appearance to
Transparent background, and click OK.
| | 03:24 | We can close this panel, and
we'll select the Hand tool.
| | 03:29 | Now let's go to the next page and come back.
| | 03:33 | Now the animation plays correctly.
| | 03:35 | Unfortunately, this isn't as
smooth as you would expect.
| | 03:38 | It is a workaround, but
hopefully it will fix this in the future.
| | 03:40 | But what happens if we've
a lot of play SWF files?
| | 03:43 | This entire process would
become pretty tedious quickly.
| | 03:46 | Luckily, there is a workaround
that will help automate the process.
| | 03:49 | I am going to close this PDF--I don't
need to save it--and back inside InDesign,
| | 03:53 | I am going to delete what we made.
| | 03:54 | I don't need this layer, and I
can turn off the Guides layer.
| | 04:00 | We are going to turn text back on.
| | 04:03 | We're going to use a script
to help automate this process.
| | 04:05 | Because we have animation on every
single page, I don't want to have to manually
| | 04:08 | export each animated element, place
it back in, export to a PDF, and then
| | 04:13 | manually change the transparent
background inside Acrobat Professional.
| | 04:16 | That's way too much work.
| | 04:17 | We are going to go to
Window > Utilities > Scripts.
| | 04:22 | Inside our Scripts panel, I have a
script called SWFPresenter.jsxbin. You can
| | 04:28 | download the script for free
from www.automatication.com.
| | 04:33 | To learn how to install a script, you
can watch a previous video in this course.
| | 04:37 | When we run this script, it's going to
automatically export the contents of each
| | 04:41 | page into a SWF and then place the
SWF back inside our layout for us.
| | 04:45 | It's a big time saver.
| | 04:46 | I am going to double-click, and it's
going to ask me, where do I want to
| | 04:49 | keep all of my SWFs?
| | 04:51 | On my Desktop, I am going to make a
New Folder called "swfs", press Create, and
| | 04:56 | then I'll click Open.
| | 04:58 | Inside the Export dialog, I am going to
choose All Pages, scale it 100%, with the
| | 05:03 | transparent background, and click OK.
| | 05:07 | Now, it's doing the work for us.
| | 05:09 | Now that the script is complete,
we can close the Script panel.
| | 05:12 | You'll see there is brand-
new layer called swf.presenter.
| | 05:16 | What we can do is turn off all of the
other layers inside the document, and
| | 05:20 | you'll see that there is a
play SWF on every single page.
| | 05:22 | If I go to the Media panel and select the SWF,
you'll see it is set to Play on Page Load.
| | 05:27 | Now that this is complete, we can
export to an interactive PDF; File > Export.
| | 05:33 | We'll choose the Desktop. We'll leave
the same name, Presentation, Adobe PDF
| | 05:37 | (Interactive). We can replace this file.
We'll choose the entire document, and
| | 05:43 | View After Exporting, and we'll click OK.
| | 05:54 | Inside the exported PDF, I can use my
navigation system to go through the entire
| | 05:57 | document and see all of
the animations inside my PDF.
| | 06:02 | This script is a huge time saver if
you have lots of animation for your
| | 06:04 | presentation and you want
to present it inside a PDF.
| | 06:07 | For more information about the script,
please visit Martino da Gloria's web site
| | 06:11 | at www.automatication.com.
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| Exporting your presentation to interactive PDF| 00:00 | When you're finished with your
presentation, and it's time to create a PDF, we
| | 00:03 | need to go to File > Export.
| | 00:08 | Underneath Format, we have
two different PDF options:
| | 00:11 | there is Print and Interactive.
| | 00:12 | If you're only going to be creating a
PDF that was going to be printed, we would
| | 00:15 | choose Print. But because this has
transitions and buttons and other interactive
| | 00:19 | elements, we want to choose Interactive.
| | 00:21 | I'll choose the Desktop and click Save.
| | 00:25 | Let's take a look at our options.
| | 00:26 | At a top for Pages, we can choose
All the pages or a specific range.
| | 00:31 | If I choose a range, I can
limit what pages are included.
| | 00:33 | For example, if I only
want page 1, I'll choose 1.
| | 00:36 | But if I want to narrow this down, I could
say 1-5, and include page 7, and then 11-13.
| | 00:44 | For now, I am going to choose All.
| | 00:45 | I like to view the PDFs after exporting,
just to get one more chance to look at
| | 00:50 | it to find out if there are
any problems with the file.
| | 00:53 | Including the thumbnails is useful for
navigating the document inside the PDF,
| | 00:56 | but it does add to its file size.
| | 00:59 | Creating Acrobat layers will transfer your
layer structure from InDesign into Acrobat.
| | 01:03 | For most presentations, this isn't
needed, but if you are creating a more
| | 01:06 | complicated document with forms,
this might be useful to you.
| | 01:09 | Creating a tagged PDF
gives your document structure.
| | 01:12 | This is useful for people with
disabilities, who have screen reading devices
| | 01:15 | dictate the PDF back to them.
| | 01:17 | The View is the initial view
when you first open your PDF.
| | 01:20 | I like to choose Fit Page.
| | 01:22 | The reason is, if you have a very large
PDF and a tiny screen, you don't want to
| | 01:26 | have to zoom to see the PDF.
| | 01:28 | This way, no matter what the size of the
PDF, or your monitor, it will always fit.
| | 01:34 | Layout has a few different options.
| | 01:36 | Single Page means you can
only see a single page at a time.
| | 01:39 | Single Page Continuous allows you to
scroll and see the gap in-between the pages.
| | 01:43 | Two-Up allows you to see 2 pages at
once, like a spread, and Two-Up Continuous
| | 01:47 | allows you to see the gap
in between those two pages.
| | 01:49 | I am going to choose Single Page.
| | 01:52 | If you want your PDF to open up in
Full Screen mode, we can set this option.
| | 01:55 | That way when it opens up inside Acrobat,
you'll be able to see the PDF in Full
| | 01:59 | Screen mode initially.
| | 02:00 | We can also have it flip every few
seconds, if you want to create a self-
| | 02:03 | running presentation.
| | 02:04 | I don't need this right now,
so I am going to turn that off.
| | 02:08 | If you have any page transitions in
your document, you can include them from
| | 02:11 | InDesign to Acrobat.
| | 02:13 | You can also override them here. If you
decide that you don't want any in the
| | 02:15 | resulting PDF, we can disable that, or
we can override and create all of our
| | 02:19 | transitions to fade.
| | 02:21 | For now, I am going to
leave it at From Document.
| | 02:24 | Under Buttons and Media, I
want to include everything.
| | 02:27 | I could include their appearance,
but then they wouldn't be functional.
| | 02:30 | I'd want them to be
functional, so I am going to Include All.
| | 02:33 | Under Image Handling, I am
going to leave it at JPEG.
| | 02:35 | This will result in a smaller PDF.
| | 02:38 | If you want the best quality PDF, we
could leave it at JPEG 2000, but the file
| | 02:42 | size will get larger.
| | 02:43 | Automatic lets InDesign
determine what is the best choice.
| | 02:46 | I am going to leave it at JPEG.
| | 02:48 | For JPEG Quality, we have
varying degrees of control.
| | 02:51 | I am going to leave it at Medium for now.
| | 02:54 | If our PDF is going to be presented
only onscreen, I'll the Resolution at 72,
| | 02:57 | but if it's going to be printed, I
can increase it to 144, even 300.
| | 03:02 | Keep in mind, if you only have lower
resolution graphics, this will not
| | 03:05 | increase the resolution of your pictures.
| | 03:09 | Security allows me to put
security inside the PDF.
| | 03:11 | I can require a password for you to
would be able to open up the document to
| | 03:15 | keep prying eyes away.
| | 03:17 | I don't need that right now,
so I am going to turn that off.
| | 03:20 | I am a fan of the Permissions Password.
By putting a permissions password on,
| | 03:24 | you can prevent people
from printing your document.
| | 03:26 | You can also stop them from making
any changes with Acrobat Professional.
| | 03:30 | If you want to be mean, you can disable
copying of text, of images, and other content.
| | 03:34 | But just be aware, most people expect
to be able to copy text from a PDF, and
| | 03:38 | it'll be quite annoying to them.
| | 03:40 | I'll leave this enabled, and I don't
need a password right now, and click OK.
| | 03:44 | Now that I have finished my Export
options, I'll click OK to create the PDF.
| | 03:50 | Now my PDF is finished, and I
am ready to give my presentation.
| | 03:54 | If your presentation has any
interactive elements--like buttons, videos, or
| | 03:57 | transitions--you'll have to
use the Interactive Export.
| | 04:00 | If you try to use the Print PDF
Export, those elements will not be
| | 04:04 | included inside the PDF.
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| Creating a PDF Portfolio presentation| 00:00 | When you create a presentation, the main goal
is to provide a file that will be presented.
| | 00:05 | However, sometimes you need to create
printable version of your presentation for
| | 00:09 | people to take with them, or to take notes.
| | 00:12 | A problem that might occur is when
you use animation inside your PDF.
| | 00:15 | If you have animations, each page might
not printable in the way that you want.
| | 00:20 | I have two versions of our PDF: an
animated version and a static version.
| | 00:24 | Let's take a look at each.
| | 00:25 | The animated PDF has
animations at every single page.
| | 00:27 | It's pretty interesting.
| | 00:28 | If I come over to the static PDF, nothing
happens, and it's page after page after page.
| | 00:35 | The problem is if I try to print an
animated PDF, each page might not output correctly.
| | 00:40 | If we combine both of these into a PDF
portfolio, we can have the best of both
| | 00:44 | worlds: a printable version of our
PDF and an animated version of our PDF.
| | 00:48 | To create a PDF portfolio, you
have to use Acrobat Professional.
| | 00:51 | I am going to go to File > Create PDF Portfolio.
| | 00:56 | Let's start by clicking Add Files.
| | 00:59 | We are going to grab
animated and static and click Open.
| | 01:03 | Now that I both of these selected,
there are quite a few different options
| | 01:09 | for the PDF portfolio.
| | 01:10 | We are going to switch the List view, and we
can put in a description next each of these.
| | 01:17 | In Description, next to Animate, I'm going
to type in "Use this for the presentation".
| | 01:24 | For the static, I am going
to type in "Print this PDF".
| | 01:27 | You can see from the file size that the
animated PDF is much larger than the static PDF.
| | 01:30 | I am going to skip over the
rest of the PDF portfolio options.
| | 01:34 | For more information on portfolios,
check out the Acrobat Pro Essential Training
| | 01:38 | Series on lynda.com Online Training Library.
| | 01:40 | We will click Publish and then Save.
| | 01:44 | We will save this to our Desktop, and we
call this "presentation", and click Save.
| | 01:51 | Now I am going to close this
and close both of these PDFs.
| | 01:56 | When I double-click on it, and when
it opens up, you'll see we have two
| | 02:00 | thumbnails: the static and animated.
| | 02:02 | We have the description for "Use this
for the presentation" and "Print this PDF."
| | 02:05 | When I double-click on animated.pdf,
I am ready to give my presentation.
| | 02:11 | Remember, if you create a PDF
portfolio, you'll have to open it in Adobe
| | 02:15 | Reader 9 or higher.
| | 02:17 | Creating PDF portfolios are a great
way to combine static and animated PDFs
| | 02:21 | for your presentations.
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6. Building the Presentation as a Complex SWF FileExploring the Animating Encyclopedia Script| 00:00 | Trying to decipher all of the
possibilities of animation inside InDesign can
| | 00:03 | seem overwhelming, especially if
you've never worked with animation before.
| | 00:07 | To get an overview of what is
possible with animation, it is a good idea to
| | 00:11 | explore the AnimationEncyclopedia
script that is included with InDesign.
| | 00:14 | The script was written by the engineers at
Adobe to show us what is possible with animation.
| | 00:19 | To run the AnimationEncyclopedia
script, we are going to go to Window >
| | 00:23 | Utilities > Scripts.
| | 00:26 | Inside the Script panel, we are
going to open up Application > Samples >
| | 00:29 | JavaScript, and then double-
click on AnimationEncyclopedia.
| | 00:33 | In a few moments, InDesign will
automatically build the document that we can run
| | 00:38 | to explore all the animation properties.
| | 00:40 | I no longer need this panel,
| | 00:41 | so I am going to close it.
| | 00:42 | Let's go to the first page and on the
Animation Properties page, let's open up
| | 00:46 | the Preview panel to take
a look at what's possible.
| | 00:48 | I am going to press Play.
| | 00:50 | Each time we click on this page, we'll
see a different property of animation.
| | 00:54 | This is our motion path where
something is moving across the page.
| | 00:58 | Rotation allows an object to rotate.
| | 01:01 | Opacity makes it fade in or fade out.
| | 01:05 | Scaling can make something larger or smaller,
and Combination can do any or all of the above.
| | 01:14 | The Color Fade is a little tricky.
| | 01:15 | I'll explain that one in a moment.
| | 01:18 | The last one moves along a curved path.
| | 01:20 | Let's close this panel and explore.
| | 01:21 | When I select Motion Path, you
will see a green line show up.
| | 01:25 | This means this object is
going to move along that path.
| | 01:28 | With Rotation, I see the exact same green line.
| | 01:30 | In order to control the rotation,
I have to open the Animation panel.
| | 01:34 | Inside the Animation panel, I can
see that it's rotating 270 degrees.
| | 01:39 | If I select Scale, you'll see that
it's scaling to 20% of its current size.
| | 01:44 | Combination is adding quite a few of the
options, but Color Fade is a little tricky.
| | 01:49 | I want to move this rectangle over slightly.
| | 01:51 | Now when I preview this and I click,
pay attention to the color fade.
| | 01:56 | You will see the blue rectangle slowly fade
in while the magenta rectangle faded away.
| | 02:03 | This created the illusion of a color change.
| | 02:05 | Finally, the Motion Path with a Curve,
you will see there is a curved path
| | 02:09 | that it moved along.
| | 02:10 | Let's look at the next page.
| | 02:12 | This page is all about animation events.
| | 02:14 | An event is what triggers an animation.
| | 02:16 | The first event is On Page Load;
| | 02:18 | that means as soon as I being up
the Preview panel this rectangle will
| | 02:21 | animate immediately.
| | 02:24 | Next is On Page Click.
| | 02:25 | As soon as I click anywhere
on the page, it will rotate.
| | 02:28 | On Click Self means I click on the animation.
| | 02:31 | I can click again and again.
| | 02:33 | On Roll Over is when I touch it.
| | 02:38 | On Button Event means if I click on
a different button, it will animate.
| | 02:42 | So if I click on the screen
button, the other one animates.
| | 02:46 | On State Load of Multi-State Object
means when I click on this button, another
| | 02:50 | object will become
visible from a previous state.
| | 02:52 | We will discuss multi-state
objects in the later video.
| | 02:59 | Animations Events are also
controlled by the Animation panel.
| | 03:04 | If I select this rectangle and I go to
the Animation panel, you will see the
| | 03:07 | event is On Page Load.
| | 03:09 | I could change it here, and I could even add
a secondary, On Page Load and On Page Click.
| | 03:14 | I'll leave it On Page Load for right now.
| | 03:17 | Let's look at another page.
| | 03:18 | The Additional Animation Properties and
Settings is a little more complicated.
| | 03:22 | Let's take a look at Additional
Animation Properties and Settings.
| | 03:25 | Inside the Animation panel, we can
control the duration--which is how long the
| | 03:28 | animation takes--and the speed--which
can slow down an animation--and the play
| | 03:32 | count--how many times we want it to
animate, and we can even loop it.
| | 03:36 | Visibility can hide an object before
or after its animation, and the Origin
| | 03:40 | controls where the
animation occurs. Let's Preview.
| | 03:44 | Duration: 2 seconds only.
It will last for 2 seconds.
| | 03:46 | The .5 seconds is very quick.
| | 03:48 | Ease In and Ease Out will slow down
the animation at the beginning and end.
| | 03:52 | Play Twice will have the animation rotate twice.
| | 03:55 | Loop is continuous, meaning it will never end.
| | 03:58 | Hide Until Animated had the object
visible until the animation was complete.
| | 04:01 | Hide After Animating was the
opposite and the final two controlled the
| | 04:05 | reference point for rotation.
| | 04:06 | Let's look at page 4.
| | 04:08 | Page 4 has the Animate Options: From
Current Appearance, To Current Appearance,
| | 04:12 | and To Current Location.
| | 04:13 | Now I'll be honest with you:
these three are a pretty confusing.
| | 04:16 | It took me a while to figure these out.
| | 04:18 | Before we preview them, let's
take a look at them on the page.
| | 04:22 | Animate From Current Appearance means
it's going to start however it is now
| | 04:25 | but end somewhere else.
| | 04:27 | Animate To Current Appearance means
this is its final location and appearance.
| | 04:31 | Animate To Current Location will bring the
animation to a stop at this spot. Now, let's Preview.
| | 04:38 | That was pretty quick.
| | 04:39 | If you need watch it again, you can hit
the Play button to watch it a second time.
| | 04:45 | You can see From Current Appearance
started on the left and moved to the right
| | 04:49 | and got larger. Animate To Current
Appearance started on the right and moved
| | 04:52 | to left and got smaller while Animate To
Current Location did not change its appearance;
| | 04:57 | it just moved from a
different spot to this location.
| | 04:59 | Page 5 has the Timing panel.
| | 05:01 | The Timing panel controls
the order of our animations.
| | 05:04 | We can group them and delay them.
| | 05:05 | Inside the Timing panel, there are three groups:
| | 05:08 | the A group, the B group, and the C
group--just like we see on the page.
| | 05:11 | The A group has lines connecting them,
which means all of these objects are
| | 05:14 | going to play together.
| | 05:15 | The same with B and C.
| | 05:17 | If I go to the B group, you will see
it has a delay of 1 second, followed by
| | 05:21 | delay of half second, and finally
a delay by a third full second.
| | 05:24 | This means each object in the B group
will wait a moment before it animates.
| | 05:29 | Every object in the C
group has the exact same delay.
| | 05:32 | Let's preview what's this spread looks like.
| | 05:35 | If that went too quick for you, you can
always hit the Play button and play it again.
| | 05:38 | You can see that A group played
immediately and the B group has a slight delay
| | 05:42 | where one played after another. Because each
object in the C group had the same small delay,
| | 05:46 | it looked like a quick chain reaction.
| | 05:48 | Let's close this panel and
take a look at page number 6.
| | 05:51 | Page 6 is about a scripted animation.
| | 05:53 | This is a very complicated animation
that we can't do ourselves inside InDesign.
| | 05:57 | In order to access this type of
complicated script, you will have to write your
| | 06:00 | own script or have someone write one for you.
| | 06:02 | Let's preview what this looks like.
| | 06:03 | You can see that this object
went through multiple changes.
| | 06:06 | It started as this rectangle, rotated
multiple times, changed its opacity, and
| | 06:11 | finally came back to a
resting spot where it began.
| | 06:14 | This isn't currently possible with the
controls that we have inside in InDesign.
| | 06:17 | Taking the time to deconstruct all of
the animation properties will go a long way to
| | 06:21 | helping you realize the effect
that you're trying to create.
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| Using the Animation panel| 00:00 | One of my favorite new features of
InDesign CS5 is the addition of animation.
| | 00:04 | Adding animation to objects in your layout
as is easy as changing the color of a frame.
| | 00:09 | We're going to begin by opening up
the Animation panel. I am going to go to
| | 00:11 | Window > Interactive > Animation.
I'm going to a select "Duration 1 week," and if
| | 00:16 | I wanted to I could change the name of the
object here, but I'm going to go to Preset.
| | 00:20 | Presets are motion presets from Flash;
think of them as canned animations.
| | 00:23 | The top ones are the basic
animations and the bottom ones are the more
| | 00:26 | advanced animations. Let's choose Grow.
| | 00:29 | When I choose Grow and mouse over the
butterfly, you'll see the butterfly grow slightly.
| | 00:33 | If I want to see this animation again, I
can mouse over and see the animation again.
| | 00:38 | Now if you've been using InDesign for
quite a few years, this butterfly might
| | 00:40 | look familiar to you. The reason is this
was the icon for InDesign up until CS2.
| | 00:45 | Let's choose another preset. We're going to
choose Move and Scale > Move Right and Grow.
| | 00:49 | Next, we have an event.
| | 00:50 | An event is a trigger to cause the animation.
| | 00:53 | Right now, it's set to On Page Load. That means
when this page loads we'll see the animation.
| | 00:57 | We could choose On Page Click if we
wanted to see this animation when the user
| | 01:00 | clicked on the page. We'll
leave it On Page Load for now.
| | 01:04 | Next, we have Duration.
| | 01:05 | Duration is how long the animation takes.
| | 01:07 | If I increase the Duration,
it will slow down my animation.
| | 01:10 | I'm going to increase the duration to 2 seconds.
| | 01:12 | You can think of this Play as repeat.
Do I want to this animation to repeat or
| | 01:16 | play at number of times?
| | 01:17 | Right now, it set at 1, which means the
animation will occur once and then stop.
| | 01:21 | If I want it to play multiple
times, I could increase the number.
| | 01:24 | If I choose Loop, it will play endlessly.
| | 01:26 | Under Speed, I can add easing.
| | 01:28 | Easing will slow down the animation at
the beginning or end of the animation.
| | 01:32 | We'll leave it at From Preset.
| | 01:34 | Underneath Properties, I have Animate.
Inside Animate, there is three different
| | 01:38 | options: From Current Appearance, To
Current Appearance, and To Current Location.
| | 01:42 | Now, these threes may seem confusing.
Well, let's take a look at each of them.
| | 01:46 | When I From Current Appearance, let's
look at our object. There is a green motion
| | 01:49 | path, which is displaying the
direction that this object is going to move.
| | 01:53 | Right now, my motion preset says move
right and grow. Because animate is set
| | 01:57 | from current appearance, it's going to
start at this state, and it's going to end
| | 02:00 | larger and to the right.
| | 02:02 | Let's preview the animation.
| | 02:03 | You can see the object started small, moved to
the right, and ended large, just like we said.
| | 02:08 | Let's try some of the other options.
| | 02:10 | Instead of From Current Appearance,
let's choose To Current Appearance.
| | 02:15 | When you choose To Current Appearance
it was hard to tell, but you'll see the
| | 02:18 | arrow on the motion path spun around.
| | 02:20 | That means it reversed the animation.
| | 02:22 | When I preview this, you'll see that it
started large and to the right and shrank
| | 02:26 | and moved to the left.
| | 02:27 | You can think of To Current
Appearance as the opposite of From Current
| | 02:30 | Appearance. To Current
Location moves the motion path.
| | 02:35 | If I look at From Current Appearance,
you can see how the motion path started at
| | 02:38 | the center of the object,
and it moves to the right.
| | 02:41 | If I change it to To Current Location
that same motion path was moved to the right.
| | 02:46 | Let's preview the animation.
| | 02:49 | The animation started from the left
and move to the right and grew large.
| | 02:52 | Out of the three animation properties,
From Current Appearance is the one you'll
| | 02:56 | probably be using the most.
| | 02:58 | If you ever get confused by what each
of these mean, you can always choose one
| | 03:01 | and preview it with the Preview panel.
| | 03:03 | Next, we have Rotation.
| | 03:04 | Rotation will spin the object
during the duration of the animation.
| | 03:08 | We can choose where it rotates
from from our reference point here.
| | 03:11 | Scaling can change the size of your
object you can make it larger or smaller.
| | 03:14 | Because our preset has a
Grow involved, this number is large.
| | 03:17 | If you don't want the scaling to be
proportional, you can uncheck this link.
| | 03:21 | Opacity allows you to fade the
animation in or fade the animation out.
| | 03:25 | And finally, Visibility: we can hide the
animation before or after the animation.
| | 03:29 | Learning the basics of the animation
panel is a great first step into the
| | 03:32 | world of interactivity.
| | 03:34 | Take some time to experiment with this
panel, and before you know it, you'll be
| | 03:36 | creating your own presentations.
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| Animating a list| 00:00 | When you play an animation, by default
it is set to On Page Load, and all of the
| | 00:04 | animations are played in the
order that they are created.
| | 00:07 | We can get more control over our
animations by changing the events or using the
| | 00:11 | Timing panel to set up our animations.
| | 00:13 | On this first page, we have three
different items in this list that I want to appear.
| | 00:16 | So I'm going to hold the Shift key and
select all three of them, and go to my
| | 00:20 | Animation panel and
change the preset to Fade In.
| | 00:24 | Let's preview what this looks like.
| | 00:26 | You can see that each item
fades in, one after another.
| | 00:29 | Now that was a little quick.
| | 00:30 | Let's see if we can change that.
| | 00:32 | I'm going to deselect and
open up the Timing panel.
| | 00:34 | Inside the Timing panel, I have
all of the animations on the page.
| | 00:37 | I'm going to select cost and departure,
and I'm going to delay them by one second.
| | 00:42 | That means as soon as duration is
done playing, cost would be delayed one
| | 00:46 | second and then departure will be
delayed one second as soon as the cost
| | 00:49 | animation is finished.
| | 00:51 | Let's preview. Duration, Cost, and Departure.
| | 00:57 | That's much more tasteful appearance,
and it slows it down so it's not as hectic.
| | 01:01 | Using the Timing panel, I'm
able to delay each animation.
| | 01:04 | If this was a self-running
presentation, having each item appear one after
| | 01:08 | another would be what you would like.
| | 01:09 | Now if I'm the one giving the
presentation, I may not want each item to
| | 01:12 | appear immediately.
| | 01:13 | I might want to talk about Duration for
a while, and then a little while later
| | 01:17 | Cost, followed by Departure.
| | 01:18 | I don't know how long I'll be talking
about each particular item, so I can't
| | 01:22 | set a specified delay.
| | 01:23 | Therefore I'm going to be
trying a different method.
| | 01:25 | I want to change the event for each item.
| | 01:27 | Let's close to Preview panel,
and let's go to another page.
| | 01:30 | Let's go to page 2, and I'm going to hold
the Shift key and select all three list items.
| | 01:35 | I'm going to go to the Animation panel,
and I'm going to choose the preset
| | 01:38 | Fly in from Bottom.
| | 01:41 | This time instead of Page Load, I am
going to change the event to On Page Click.
| | 01:46 | When I choose On Page Click,
it adds it to On Page Load.
| | 01:49 | I don't want it to be both, so I need to
come back here and turn off On Page Load.
| | 01:54 | Now it would only says On Page Click.
| | 01:56 | Let's preview the animation.
| | 01:58 | Because these items are listed as On Page
Click, nothing will occur until I click my mouse.
| | 02:03 | I could talk as much as I like until
I'm ready to talk about the next item.
| | 02:06 | When I click my mouse, Duration will come in.
| | 02:10 | When I'm ready to move onto the next item,
I'll click my mouse, and the next item comes in.
| | 02:14 | Finally, when I'm ready for
the last item, I'll click again.
| | 02:17 | By changing the events for animations,
we can either have a slideshow that will
| | 02:20 | play automatically when you load a page,
or you can control it for each bullet.
| | 02:24 | On Page Click is a great way to spread
out your information over the course of
| | 02:26 | a slide.
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| Designing an alternate navigation| 00:00 | Earlier, we learned how to create a
simple button navigation system to go
| | 00:03 | forwards and backwards in
a document using buttons.
| | 00:06 | One of the main advantages of using
Flash is the ability to create unique and
| | 00:09 | different types of navigation.
| | 00:10 | We're going to begin by going
to the navigation master page.
| | 00:13 | I am going to double-click on A-Nav.
| | 00:15 | On the bottom of this page, we have
the shell of a navigation system.
| | 00:18 | We're going to go to the upper left-
hand corner of this guide and click and
| | 00:22 | drag a rectangle frame.
| | 00:23 | While we're still holding out our
mouse button, we're going to hit the Right
| | 00:26 | Arrow key seven times.
| | 00:29 | So it creates eight equal frames.
Then we'll press the up arrow to make another row.
| | 00:33 | Now, we have 16 equal frames. I'm going to grab
my Selection tool and click off to this side.
| | 00:38 | Next, I want to place thumbnail versions
of every single page inside our document.
| | 00:41 | I've already exported the PDF of this
document. I'm going to go to File > Place,
| | 00:47 | and inside my Links folder I am going
to select presentation_thumbnails.pdf.
| | 00:53 | I'm going to hold down my
Shift key and click Open.
| | 00:55 | This will give me my Import Options, and
I'm going to choose all for all of the pages.
| | 01:03 | Now with my loaded cursor, I'm going
to go to each single frame and click.
| | 01:08 | When you get to the end of the first row,
start on the bottom left of the second row.
| | 01:15 | Now that I have all these thumbnails
placed, let's scale them down so they fit
| | 01:18 | inside these frames.
| | 01:19 | I'm going to hold the Shift key and
select all of these frames and then press
| | 01:24 | Fill frame proportionally.
| | 01:26 | Next, I'll deselect. Our next step is
to create buttons for each of these.
| | 01:30 | I want you to be able to click
on each icon and go to that page.
| | 01:32 | I'm going to select the first one, go to
my Button panel, and click on Normal to
| | 01:37 | create a button, and add a rollover state.
| | 01:40 | Let's give the button the name, "p1" for
page 1, and give it appearance of 40% opacity.
| | 01:45 | We're going to add the Action > Go To
Page, and we'll choose 1. Then let's repeat
| | 01:49 | this process for the remaining buttons.
| | 01:52 | Now that we're done creating our
buttons, let's finish the navigation system.
| | 01:55 | I'm going to select all of the
navigation system, and I'm going to group it.
| | 01:59 | With it grouped, I can close the Button panel,
and I'm going to open the Animation panel.
| | 02:03 | Inside the Animation panel, I'm going
to choose the Preset > Move Left.
| | 02:06 | I'm going to change the Event from On
Page Load to On Roll Over (Self), and I'm
| | 02:12 | going to turn off On Page Load.
| | 02:14 | Next, I'm going to add Reverse on Roll Off.
| | 02:17 | This means when I mouse over the page
navigation system, it's going to move, but
| | 02:21 | when I mouse away, it's going to move back.
| | 02:23 | We'll change the duration to a quarter
of a second, and we're going to change
| | 02:27 | its reference point to the top-middle.
| | 02:29 | After selecting my direct Selection
tool, I'm going to grab the left-hand point and
| | 02:33 | put it at the Y coordinate of 576.
| | 02:36 | Now, I can deselect, and
let's preview the animation.
| | 02:40 | When I mouse over the page, the page
navigation pops up, and I can move around.
| | 02:44 | When I mouse away, it moves back down.
| | 02:46 | Since we're on the master page, we
can't see other pages of the document.
| | 02:49 | I'm going to close the Preview
panel and go to page 1. Now, let's preview
| | 02:53 | the entire document.
| | 02:54 | I'm going to go to File > Export. I'm going
to choose my Desktop, choose the Flash
| | 03:01 | player, click Save, I am going to export
all of the pages, and generate an HTML
| | 03:07 | file, and view it after exporting,
and then I'm going to scale to 50%.
| | 03:11 | Now, let's try the navigation system.
| | 03:17 | I can mouse over and click to go to any page.
| | 03:20 | If I want to go back to a
different page, I can click again.
| | 03:23 | I still have my regular navigation system to
go forward and backward within my document.
| | 03:27 | After creating the system, remember that it
needs to be above everything in your layout.
| | 03:31 | Adding a custom nav is a great way
to make your presentation unique.
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| Creating a multistate object| 00:00 | The Object States panel lets you
create multiple versions of an object.
| | 00:03 | Each of these versions is called a
state. While only one version of a state can
| | 00:07 | be visible at a time, you can use a
button to switch to another state.
| | 00:10 | Inside my layout, I have a layer
called MSO, for Multi-State Object.
| | 00:14 | I'm going to open up this layer,
and you can see I have four different
| | 00:16 | items: explore ca, desert to sea,
taste of ca, and nature watch.
| | 00:21 | If I turn off each of these layers,
you can see each element. I'm going to
| | 00:26 | turn these back on.
| | 00:28 | I'm going to align all these objects.
| | 00:30 | With my Selection tool, I'm going to
select all of them, open up my Align panel,
| | 00:33 | and align them horizontal
center and vertical center.
| | 00:37 | Next, I'm going to align
them centered on the page.
| | 00:39 | I can close this panel. With all these
objects selected, I'm going to create a
| | 00:42 | multi-state object. I'm going
to open my Object States panel.
| | 00:45 | If you don't have this opened, you can go
to Window > Interactive > Object States.
| | 00:51 | With them selected, I'm going
to hit the button to create a new
| | 00:53 | multi-state object.
| | 00:54 | I'm going to name the object "slideshow".
| | 00:57 | Each item on the page that was
selected now becomes its own state.
| | 01:00 | When I click on each state, it becomes
visible. Each state is named already,
| | 01:05 | because I had them named inside my layer panel.
| | 01:07 | Now that I have a multi-state object, I'm
going to use these buttons to go to that state.
| | 01:11 | I'm going to select Explore California
button go to my Button panel and add an
| | 01:15 | action, SWF Only Go To State.
| | 01:18 | I'm going to choose the Object
slideshow, in the State, explore ca.
| | 01:22 | And now, we'll repeat this process.
| | 01:25 | I am going to add an action, Go
To State. This time desert to sea.
| | 01:34 | Go To State, taste of ca, and finally, nature watch.
| | 01:44 | Inside the Preview panel,
we'll see explore California first.
| | 01:47 | The reason is this is the first state
inside a multi-state object. But if I
| | 01:51 | click on desert to sea, it switches
to desert to sea, and I can go back to
| | 01:54 | each of these buttons.
| | 01:55 | Now, you notice I didn't do snowboard California.
| | 01:58 | Let's close the Preview panel and take a look.
| | 01:59 | I purposely hit this particular item.
I'm going to turn on the hidden layer, so we
| | 02:04 | can see snowboard California.
| | 02:05 | I am going to position this
on top of the other elements.
| | 02:08 | If I need to add another item to my multi
-state object, I'm going to stack in on
| | 02:11 | top of the other elements
and then select all of them.
| | 02:14 | Inside my Object States panel, I'm going
to hit the button that says Convert
| | 02:18 | selection to multi-state object.
| | 02:20 | When I do this, it's going
to add it as a fifth state.
| | 02:22 | Now I can select the Snowboard button
and add the action to go to that state.
| | 02:28 | And let's preview to see if they all
work, and they all work as expected.
| | 02:33 | A slideshow is one of the most common
uses for multi-state objects. Well, let's
| | 02:36 | take a look at a few
other options that we can do.
| | 02:39 | What if I need to add another element
to the multi-state object, but I don't
| | 02:41 | want it as its own state? Well, inside my
hidden layer, if I open this up, I have another
| | 02:46 | layer called "banner". I'm going to
select this and cut it to the clipboard.
| | 02:49 | After cutting it to the clipboard, I'm
going to select my multi-state object, open
| | 02:53 | the States panel, and hit the button that
says Paste copied object into selected state.
| | 02:58 | I want to do this,
because it added to that state.
| | 03:00 | Now I can go to each state and pasted in.
| | 03:04 | If you want to transform all the states,
there is a button inside the Object
| | 03:07 | States panel, when I click this, it
allows me to select all of the states, and I
| | 03:11 | can apply any object transformation.
| | 03:13 | I'm going to go to Object > Transform >
Shear and add a 6-degree shear, and you can
| | 03:19 | see each state was sheared.
| | 03:22 | If you want to make a formatting change
on each state, that's either going to be a
| | 03:25 | manual change or change made via style.
| | 03:28 | I'm going to do a few undos to undo that shear.
| | 03:30 | The reason I'm pressing undo multiple
times is I have to step back through
| | 03:34 | each selection of state.
| | 03:35 | Whenever you change a state, it's
considered an action on the page.
| | 03:39 | Another option inside the Object
States panel is Hidden Until Triggered.
| | 03:42 | When I turn this on, it's going to hide the
multi-state object until I press a button.
| | 03:46 | Let's preview the panel
with this action turned on.
| | 03:49 | You can see I currently don't see my
multi-state object. It's waiting for me
| | 03:52 | to click on an item.
| | 03:53 | When I click on a button, it becomes active.
| | 03:55 | This way you can hide your
slideshow until you're ready to start it.
| | 03:58 | Finally, inside the Object States Panel menu,
I can release all of the states to objects.
| | 04:03 | You would do this if you no longer want
your object to be a multi-state object,
| | 04:06 | and you just want them back to normal.
| | 04:08 | When I click this, it's going to warn
me about this process. I'm just going to
| | 04:10 | click OK and dismiss this. And now
it's no longer a multi-state object but a
| | 04:14 | selection of all of my original elements.
| | 04:17 | Multi-state objects are useful for
slideshows, pop-up windows, charts, and more.
| | 04:20 | Start experimenting with multi-state
objects and see what interesting documents
| | 04:24 | you can come up with.
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| Creating a page number indicator| 00:00 | Thumbnails work well when you have a
small number of pages, but if you have a
| | 00:03 | lot of pages it can be difficult
to tell which page you are choosing.
| | 00:07 | Adding a page number that appears as
you move over each thumbnail can make
| | 00:10 | it easier to navigate.
| | 00:11 | We are going to add a page number
to each thumbnail in this video.
| | 00:14 | We are going to start by
going to the A-Nav master page.
| | 00:17 | I am going to double-click.
| | 00:18 | I am going to click and drag and then
select all the page numbers on this page.
| | 00:21 | Opening my Layers panel, you can see I
have a page number for every single page,
| | 00:25 | including a None item.
| | 00:27 | With all of these selected, I am
going to go to my Object States panel and
| | 00:30 | create a new multi-state object.
| | 00:33 | Now I have a state for every single page,
but what I need to do, on State 17, is
| | 00:37 | rename this "None" and drag this to the
top. And now I'm going to go down to the
| | 00:42 | bottom of my page and double-click
to select the first page thumbnail.
| | 00:45 | Inside my Buttons panel, I am going to
change my event to On Roll Over. Next, I'll
| | 00:50 | add an action that says Go To State.
| | 00:52 | This way when I roll over the
thumbnail for page 1, the page 1 will show up.
| | 00:57 | Next, I have to add a roll off to
make that page number disappear.
| | 01:00 | I am going to choose Actions > Go To State, None.
| | 01:04 | Let's preview to make sure this works.
| | 01:06 | Open the Preview panel, and I can
mouse down to my Page Navigation. And as I
| | 01:10 | move over the thumbnail
for page 1, page 1 appears.
| | 01:13 | When I move away, it goes away.
| | 01:15 | Let's do one more button.
| | 01:16 | I am going to close this panel, double-
click to select the second button, go to
| | 01:20 | the Button panel, add the event, On Roll
Over, we'll add the Action Go To State,
| | 01:25 | State 2, On Roll Off, Go To State, None,
| | 01:32 | and now I'll continue to do
this for the other 16 buttons.
| | 01:35 | Now that we've finished all of our buttons,
let's go to page 1 and preview our animation.
| | 01:38 | I am going to double-click to go to page 1,
and then we'll open up our Preview panel.
| | 01:43 | When I mouse over the page navigation
and I mouse over any of the buttons, you
| | 01:47 | can see the page numbers pop up.
But when I move away, they fade away.
| | 01:51 | Adding page numbers to your
presentation is another tool for simple navigation.
| | 01:55 | They allow you to quickly and
decisively find the slides you need when you
| | 01:58 | need them.
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| Animating an opening page| 00:00 | Sometimes it's a good idea to wow your
audience at the beginning of your presentation.
| | 00:03 | Let's create a complex animation at the
start, to get the audience's attention.
| | 00:07 | Using a variety of InDesign's tools, we
can create this effect without having to
| | 00:11 | write a single line of code.
| | 00:12 | I am going to begin by
selecting all of these placed images.
| | 00:16 | These are thumbnails of every
single page in a presentation.
| | 00:18 | I am going to go to the Animation
panel and go to Preset > Move and Scale >
| | 00:24 | Move Right and Grow.
| | 00:25 | I am going to change the scale
percentage to 450% in both the Width and Height.
| | 00:29 | I am going to change the
Animation to To Current Appearance.
| | 00:33 | I am going to deselect
and select the first image.
| | 00:35 | When I turn On Show Animation Proxy,
I'll see a preview of where the
| | 00:39 | animation will begin.
| | 00:40 | I want this to begin filling up the
entire screen, so I am going to click to
| | 00:44 | select the motion path, switch to my
Direct Selection tool, and align this at
| | 00:49 | the center of the page.
| | 00:50 | The pink lines that you see are the smart
guides that help you with your alignment.
| | 00:54 | Let's preview the animation.
| | 00:55 | I can see the first slide
animated the way that like.
| | 01:04 | Now I need to change the motion
path for the rest of these images.
| | 01:06 | I am going to switch to my Selection
tool and then continue the process.
| | 01:13 | Now that I finished animating these,
let's preview our animation again. Each of
| | 01:20 | the images are starting at the center
of the screen and going into their position.
| | 01:23 | But I don't want them to
come in this straight order;
| | 01:25 | I want more of a random effect.
| | 01:27 | For that, I am going to open the Timing panel.
| | 01:29 | Inside the Timing panel, I can see I have
each of them appearing one after another.
| | 01:33 | Let's put these in a different order.
| | 01:35 | I don't want to have any numbers that are
sequential next to each other. Now, let's preview.
| | 01:39 | There--a nice random appearance of our pictures.
| | 01:45 | This complicated animation may take some
time, but by using Smart Guides to help
| | 01:49 | you with alignment it shouldn't be too
hard to get his animation pixel-perfect.
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| Using Page Turn vs. Page Curls| 00:00 | If you have explored the various
transitions inside InDesign, you might have
| | 00:04 | noticed that there is a SWF
only transition called Page Turn.
| | 00:06 | There is also a feature with a
similar name called Interactive Page Curl.
| | 00:10 | While these two features sound similar,
| | 00:12 | there are some differences
that you need to understand.
| | 00:14 | Inside our layout, I have a page
transition applied to all of our pages.
| | 00:18 | Let's open our Page Transition panel.
| | 00:20 | You can see there is a
transition called Page Turn (SWF Only).
| | 00:23 | Let's export this to SWF and take a look.
| | 00:26 | I am going to File > Export.
| | 00:28 | On my Desktop, I am going to
choose Flash Player. Click Save.
| | 00:32 | I am going to make sure I choose all
of the pages, generate an HTML file,
| | 00:36 | view it after exporting,
| | 00:40 | we'll scale it to 75%,
| | 00:40 | we'll include the paper color,
and we are going to set the Page
| | 00:42 | Transitions, From Document.
| | 00:45 | We don't need to use the Interactive
Page Curl right now, and we will click OK.
| | 00:49 | Inside your browser, we can use our page
navigation buttons to go to the next page.
| | 00:53 | As you go to the next page, the transition
will create an effect like a page turning.
| | 00:58 | If I go back, it turns the other direction.
| | 01:01 | This is a good transition to use if
you want your document to have the
| | 01:04 | appearance of a book.
| | 01:05 | Let's take a look at the Interactive Page Curl.
| | 01:07 | I am going to close this
and go back into InDesign.
| | 01:09 | I am going to export again: File > Export.
| | 01:13 | I am going to replace the file and choose Save.
| | 01:16 | I am going to leave all the settings
the same, except for this time I don't
| | 01:20 | want to include any transitions, but I am going
to turn on Interactive Page Curl and click OK.
| | 01:27 | Inside the web browser, in the lower
right-hand corner, when you mouse over, you
| | 01:31 | are going to see the page will start to peel up.
| | 01:33 | I can click and drag to turn the page.
| | 01:40 | From either side, I am
able to turn back and forth.
| | 01:44 | If you click and drag, you can
almost rip the piece of paper off.
| | 01:49 | Be careful using the Interactive Page
Curl and the Page Turn at the same time
| | 01:53 | because it might be hard to reach the
navigation buttons if you have Interactive
| | 01:56 | Page Curl on top of them.
| | 01:57 | While the Page Curl and Turn effects are
fun, be sure that they don't interfere
| | 02:01 | with the content and
navigation of your presentation.
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| Exporting your presentation to SWF| 00:00 | After finishing the design of your
presentation, you need to export it to a SWF.
| | 00:04 | Let's take a look at our various export options.
| | 00:07 | Inside our finished presentation,
we are going to go to File > Export.
| | 00:12 | We are going to make sure we choose the
Flash player, and we'll save it to the Desktop.
| | 00:16 | Let's take a look at all of the options.
| | 00:18 | If we had an object on our page selected,
we could export just that selection.
| | 00:21 | But for a presentation, we
should export all of the pages.
| | 00:23 | Now if you wanted to narrow it down, you
could choose a specific subset of pages.
| | 00:27 | For example, I could choose pages 2-5, 8,
and 11-16, but for now, I am going to
| | 00:35 | choose all of the pages.
| | 00:37 | If I am going to be presenting from
a web browser, I want to be sure to
| | 00:39 | generate an HTML file.
| | 00:41 | But if I am going to be presenting from the
Flash projector player I don't have to do this.
| | 00:44 | For now, I am going to leave this on.
| | 00:46 | If you've designed your presentation in
its final output size, you should choose
| | 00:49 | 100%; otherwise you can
scale it up and down accordingly.
| | 00:52 | We can also scale it to fit a
specific dimension if we need it to.
| | 00:55 | If you want to include transitions,
we need to include the background paper
| | 00:58 | color; otherwise we can have it be transparent.
| | 01:01 | If we've included any interactivity, we
should be sure to include it; otherwise
| | 01:04 | if you choose Appearance Only, it won't work.
| | 01:07 | If there are any transitions inside your
document, we can choose From Document so
| | 01:10 | they are included; otherwise we can
override them to choose a specific
| | 01:13 | transition or none at all.
For now, I am going to choose None.
| | 01:16 | If you want to include an interactive
page curl, you can turn this option on now.
| | 01:20 | For more information on this feature,
please refer to the previous video.
| | 01:23 | Inside our Advanced dialog, we have a
few more controls. As I mouse over each
| | 01:26 | option, there will be a description at
the bottom that explains what they are.
| | 01:29 | I usually leave the frame rate alone.
| | 01:32 | If you increase it beyond 24 frames
per second, your animations will be
| | 01:35 | smoother, but your file size will get larger.
| | 01:38 | For Text, I leave it at Flash Classic Text.
| | 01:40 | You can also convert to
outlines and pixels if you wish.
| | 01:43 | We can also rasterize, or flatten our
transparency, but if you do this, the
| | 01:46 | interactivity will no longer work.
And finally, under Image Handling, we can leave
| | 01:50 | the quality on JPEG High
and the Resolution at 72 ppi.
| | 01:54 | This will be suitable for onscreen display.
| | 01:56 | When I finish with these options, you could
click OK and then export your presentation.
| | 02:00 | Now this presentation is a little
large for my computer screen, but on a
| | 02:06 | projector it's at the right size.
| | 02:07 | So I am going scroll down to navigate.
| | 02:09 | I can press the buttons to go between
all of the pages. And as you can see,
| | 02:13 | everything fades in.
| | 02:14 | One last final piece of advice:
before you're ready to give your
| | 02:16 | presentation, don't forget to be
sure that you have the Flash player
| | 02:19 | installed on that computer.
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| Watching out for transitions with animations| 00:00 | Using animation inside InDesign is
fun and page transitions are great,
| | 00:03 | so it makes sense that you would want
to use both of them in your presentation.
| | 00:07 | Let's take a look at what happens when you
combine both animation and page transitions.
| | 00:11 | Here's the finished presentation,
and we're going to go to File > Export.
| | 00:14 | We're going to go to our Desktop and
choose the Flash Player, and we're going to
| | 00:19 | export all the pages, generate an HTML
file, and we're going to scale it at 75%,
| | 00:23 | so we can view it on our screen.
| | 00:25 | We'll make sure we choose From Document
for the page transitions, and we'll click OK.
| | 00:30 | So far, our presentation looks good.
| | 00:31 | It animated the way that we expect.
| | 00:33 | Let's go to the next page. Did you see that?
| | 00:37 | There were some words there, and then they
disappeared, and then they faded back in.
| | 00:40 | Let's go to the next page.
| | 00:43 | Once again, we saw some words, and they
disappeared and then faded back again.
| | 00:48 | This is happening because of the transition.
| | 00:49 | In order for a transition to work,
InDesign has to generate a static image of
| | 00:53 | the page to apply the transition.
| | 00:54 | Unfortunately, there's no other way to put this.
| | 00:56 | We have to avoid transitions if you
have objects animating on the page.
| | 01:00 | Hopefully in a future version of
InDesign this can be worked out.
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7. Creating an Interactive MicrositeWhat we're going to build| 00:00 | Let's take a look at what we're
going to build in this chapter,
| | 00:02 | an interactive microsite.
| | 00:04 | A microsite is a mini web site that
serves a niche purpose and in this case it's
| | 00:08 | a small guide to why we should
move to the city of Meridian.
| | 00:11 | On the first page of this site, we're
going to come down and click on the arrow
| | 00:14 | to go to the next spread.
| | 00:17 | (Rattling of the train)
| | 00:23 | On the Move page, we'll see a
train come in with a sound effect.
| | 00:26 | Next we see an electric vehicle drive up
and then get filled up with electricity.
| | 00:30 | At the bottom we have a small navigation
system that lets us go to the next page.
| | 00:38 | The Live page has a slide show
where we can click to see the different
| | 00:41 | images around town.
| | 00:44 | If we mouse over the Pocket
Mulch we can hear sound effect.
| | 00:46 | (Bzzz. Flies buzzing.)
| | 00:56 | On the Eat page, if we click on the
Truck button we'll see the Twitter handles
| | 01:02 | for local businesses.
| | 01:07 | On the Enjoy page, we have a
sound hotspot with an animation.
| | 01:10 | (Gears grinding)
| | 01:15 | (Hum as map swoops in)
| | 01:19 | And on the last page there's an interactive map.
| | 01:22 | If I click on each of these
buttons, I'll see different routes.
| | 01:25 | And this button shows all of them.
| | 01:28 | If I click on this fork, I get a pop-up window.
| | 01:33 | Now that we've seen what's inside this
microsite, let's get started creating it.
| | 01:37 | If you'd like to explore the finished
version of this document, I've included
| | 01:40 | the City Guide Master File inside this folder.
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| Creative tip: Breaking down a complex animation| 00:00 | Sometimes it's useful to work backwards
when you're trying to create an animation.
| | 00:04 | In this creative tip, we're going to
reverse engineer an animation to learn how
| | 00:07 | it was created and hopefully
inspire you to make your own animations.
| | 00:11 | Let's watch this animation closely.
| | 00:14 | The animation begins with
a pump slowly fading in.
| | 00:17 | Next you see an electrical
vehicle drive in and stop.
| | 00:20 | Then you'll see it get filled up.
| | 00:21 | Finally, we'll see "Charge 'ER Up" rotate up.
| | 00:24 | This may look like a complicated animation,
but it really isn't that hard to create.
| | 00:28 | Let's go back to InDesign.
| | 00:30 | Inside InDesign, let's start with the fuel pump.
| | 00:34 | With the pump selected, I'm going to go
to the Animation panel and choose Fade In.
| | 00:40 | Next I'm going to select the EV Car, go to
the Animation panel, and choose Move Left.
| | 00:51 | You can see from the motion path
that it wants to move to the left.
| | 00:53 | Well I want the car to end up here.
| | 00:56 | I'm going to change the Animation
properties From Current Appearance to
| | 00:59 | To Current Location.
| | 01:00 | That way you can see the motion
path ends where the car currently is.
| | 01:04 | Let's change the Duration to half a
second so the car can drive really fast, and
| | 01:08 | then I'm going to click on the car and
select the motion path and extend it off
| | 01:13 | into the pasteboard.
| | 01:16 | Let's preview our animation
to make sure it's working.
| | 01:20 | Okay, so we have the fuel pump fade
in and then the car driving quickly.
| | 01:24 | Next comes the tricky part.
| | 01:25 | We want the fuel line to appear.
| | 01:27 | Now you may think that the animation
has something to do with the fuel line.
| | 01:30 | In fact, if I select the square and move
it out of the way you can see that it's
| | 01:33 | obscuring the fuel line.
| | 01:35 | I'm going to press Undo and go back.
| | 01:37 | All I have to do is with the square
selected, I'm going to go to my Animation
| | 01:40 | panel and choose Move Right.
| | 01:48 | I'm going to add Opacity to Fade Out, select
the motion path, and just make it a little shorter.
| | 01:55 | Now let's Preview.
| | 01:57 | You can see that the car pulls up
and it gets filled up with fuel quickly.
| | 02:00 | We can slow this down a little bit.
| | 02:01 | I'm going to open up my Timing panel
and I'm going to set a delay on
| | 02:06 | the Reveal Charge Cord.
| | 02:08 | I'm going to bump this up to
0.75 seconds. Let's preview it.
| | 02:14 | Finally, I want "Charge 'ER
Up" to fade up to the pump.
| | 02:17 | I'm going to close the panel, select
Charge 'ER Up, open the Animation panel.
| | 02:23 | From the preset I'm going to
choose Rotate 90 degrees Clockwise.
| | 02:31 | Next I'm going to add an Ease In on the Speed.
| | 02:33 | I'm going to add the property To
Current Appearance, change the reference point
| | 02:39 | to the middle left, add a Fade Out, and
Hide Until Animated. Now let's preview.
| | 02:51 | Woo! That seems like a complex animation,
but in fact it really wasn't that difficult.
| | 02:55 | If you have an idea for a complex
animation, don't let it stop you from
| | 02:58 | experimenting. Just take the time to
break it down into small little pieces.
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| Taming the Timing panel| 00:00 | Creating animations and adding
multimedia to your layouts is important.
| | 00:04 | But if they do not appear in the correct
sequence your project will not be a success.
| | 00:08 | In this video, we're going to learn
to use the Timing panel to set proper
| | 00:11 | playback of the animations on this spread.
| | 00:13 | Let's preview the spread.
| | 00:16 | (Rattling of the train)
| | 00:21 | You can see everything is out of order.
| | 00:22 | We heard a train noise, but there's no train.
| | 00:24 | We see part of pump showing up.
Move finally comes in last.
| | 00:28 | It doesn't make any sense.
| | 00:29 | We have to put this in the right order.
| | 00:31 | For that we're going to use the Timing panel.
| | 00:33 | So open the Timing panel.
The Timing panel lets us control the order of
| | 00:37 | animations on the page.
| | 00:38 | It starts at the top and plays straight down.
| | 00:41 | If we want to change the order
we can just drag them around.
| | 00:43 | I want the Move icon to happen first,
so I am going to drag this to the top,
| | 00:46 | followed by Move.
| | 00:48 | That's going to have this little
animation up appear followed by this one.
| | 00:52 | I want to have it followed by the
Charge Station, then the Train and the mp3.
| | 00:55 | So I'm going to grab the Train and the
train.mp3, but I want both of these to
| | 01:00 | happen at the same time.
| | 01:01 | So by holding the Shift key and
selecting both of them I can press the button
| | 01:05 | that says Play together.
| | 01:06 | This will ensure that they
play at the exact same time.
| | 01:09 | Next we'll have the EV Car, followed
by Reveal and then finely "Charge 'ER UP".
| | 01:15 | I'm going to put a slight Delay
on Charger 'ER Up to a half second.
| | 01:18 | That way it doesn't happen right away.
| | 01:20 | Now to preview this spread we
can just hit the Preview button.
| | 01:26 | (Rattling of the train)
| | 01:31 | There, now it looks like everything is in place.
| | 01:33 | Be sure to test your animation for
each spread and watch it carefully.
| | 01:37 | If you notice that things are happening
out of order or too quickly, the Timing
| | 01:40 | panel will help you
regain control of your spread.
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| Animating on a motion path| 00:00 | So far, we've learned how to create a
series of animations form motion presets,
| | 00:04 | which are pre-built animations
with some configurable options.
| | 00:07 | But what if you want an object to moving
away that isn't listed in the Animation panel?
| | 00:11 | If you want to have direct control over
the path of an object's motion, we can
| | 00:15 | create a motion path.
| | 00:16 | On this page, we're going to grab the
Zoom tool and zoom down to these flies.
| | 00:19 | I want to have these flies
flying around the Pocket Mulch.
| | 00:24 | To do that, we are going
to create a motion path.
| | 00:25 | I am going to grab my Pencil tool and
tap D on my keyboard to switch to my
| | 00:29 | default fill and stroke.
| | 00:31 | This way I won't have a fill,
and I'll have a black stroke.
| | 00:33 | Now for this fly, I am going to
draw a line that I want the fly around.
| | 00:37 | So I am going to start by the fly and
click and drag and just draw a nice little
| | 00:41 | loop from the fly around.
| | 00:44 | Next, I am going to grab my Selection
tool and click and drag to select both
| | 00:47 | the fly and the path.
| | 00:49 | Inside my Animation panel, I am
going to go to the panel menu and choose
| | 00:52 | Convert to Motion Path.
| | 00:54 | The path is now green and the
fly can move along this path.
| | 00:57 | Let's preview the animation. Did you see that?
| | 01:01 | I am going to hit that one
more time. That was quick.
| | 01:06 | That fly moved really fast.
In fact it was going a little too fast.
| | 01:10 | Let's open the Animation panel and
increase its Duration to 4 seconds.
| | 01:14 | Now let's preview it.
| | 01:20 | There we go. That looks a little better.
| | 01:22 | Let's animate the other flies.
| | 01:23 | I am going to grab my Pencil tool again,
and this time for this fly I am going
| | 01:29 | to have him do a loop de loop.
| | 01:33 | With my Selection tool, I am
going to select the path and the fly,
| | 01:36 | and I am going to go to Object >
Interactive > Convert to Motion Path.
| | 01:45 | Let's open the Animation panel and
we'll give him a Duration of 4.5 seconds.
| | 01:51 | For our final fly, I am going to grab the
Pencil and we'll draw a one last loop for him.
| | 01:55 | We'll grab our Selection tool and
select both and we're going to right-click
| | 02:03 | our mouse. Go to
Interactive > Convert to Motion Path.
| | 02:08 | We are going to set this
Duration to 3 seconds. Let's preview.
| | 02:16 | We'll see the first fly around, but the
other two are not flying and then the
| | 02:20 | next one goes, but the other one stopped.
| | 02:22 | They are going one after
another taking turns. How polite!
| | 02:26 | But in reality these flies should be
flying the entire time. Let's fix this.
| | 02:29 | I am going to close the panel and hold
the Shift key and select all of the flies.
| | 02:35 | Inside the Animation panel I am going
to loop their animation so they play
| | 02:38 | continuously, and then finally inside
the Timing panel, with all three selected,
| | 02:43 | I am going to have them all play together.
| | 02:45 | This way all the animations will be playing
at the same time and they will never stop.
| | 02:49 | Let's preview it.
| | 02:51 | Now that we have animated the flies on
a motion path, our next step is to add
| | 02:54 | sound to this animation.
| | 02:55 | In the next video, we'll learn how to
create a sound hotspot that adds the buzz
| | 02:59 | noise when we mouse over the Pocket Mulch.
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| Creating a sound hot spot| 00:00 | Earlier, I demonstrated how to animate
a series of flies along a motion path.
| | 00:04 | While the animation looked good,
| | 00:06 | it would be really
impressive if we added some audio.
| | 00:08 | In order to trigger this audio,
we need to create a sound hotspot.
| | 00:12 | A hotspot, or an invisible button, is
an area of the page that triggers audio
| | 00:16 | when you mouse over it.
| | 00:17 | Now let's import our audio.
| | 00:19 | Your audio should be an MP3.
| | 00:20 | If you have other sources of audio,
you should convert it first into an MP3
| | 00:24 | using iTunes or another program.
| | 00:25 | If you try to import another type of
audio, like a WAV file, InDesign will
| | 00:29 | display a warning telling you that
it won't work inside the Flash Player.
| | 00:32 | So to bring in an MP3, we are going to
go to File > Place and inside our Links
| | 00:38 | folder we have a media folder.
| | 00:39 | In our media folder we are going
to select liveSpread_flies.mp3.
| | 00:46 | With our floated cursor, we are
going to place this on our pasteboard.
| | 00:51 | Since there's no visual appearance to the
audio we can leave it on the pasteboard.
| | 00:55 | To preview the audio, I am going to select
this audio file and go to my Media panel.
| | 01:00 | Inside the Media panel I can
press the play button to listen to it.
| | 01:03 | (Bzzz. Flies buzzing.)
| | 01:08 | Inside the Media panel I have some
other options that control its playback, but
| | 01:12 | I am going to control it via a
button so I don't need to change these.
| | 01:15 | To prevent myself from moving this audio
file, I am going to go to Object > Lock.
| | 01:19 | Now that I have the audio file
placed I need to create a sound hotspot.
| | 01:23 | I am going to grab the Rectangle Frame
tool and switch to the Buttons layer.
| | 01:27 | I am going to draw a rectangle over
the area that I want the hotspot to be.
| | 01:31 | Next, I'll grab my Selection tool
and resize this so this fits better.
| | 01:36 | I am going to go to my Button
panel and convert it to a button.
| | 01:40 | I don't need to add any appearance
because I want this to be invisible.
| | 01:44 | We're going to name the button sound hot spot.
| | 01:46 | We're going to add an
action on the event, Roll Over.
| | 01:53 | On Roll Over we are going to go to
Sound and it's going to find the
| | 01:58 | liveSpread_flies.mp3, and
we're going to choose Play.
| | 02:01 | We're going to add the event On Roll
Off and add the action Sound, Stop.
| | 02:08 | This way when we mouse over the button the
sound begins and when you mouse away it stops.
| | 02:12 | Let's preview.
| | 02:16 | We have the animation with
our flies, and as I mouse over,
| | 02:18 | (Bzzz. Flies buzzing.)
| | 02:22 | it begins and when I mouse away it stops.
| | 02:24 | Creating a sound hotspot adds another
dimension to your document which can be a lot of fun.
| | 02:29 | Be careful not to add audio files that
are too long because when the user moves
| | 02:32 | away the audio will stop.
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| Creating a slideshow with a multistate object| 00:00 | When you design traditional print
documents a large group of images can take
| | 00:03 | up most of your layout. With
interactive documents you can be much more
| | 00:07 | economical with your space.
| | 00:09 | I am going to create a
slideshow with a multi-state object.
| | 00:12 | With my Selection tool, I am going to
click and drag and select these images.
| | 00:16 | Next, I am going to go to my Align panel.
| | 00:19 | If you don't have this open, you can go to
Window > Object & Layout > Align or press Shift+F7.
| | 00:26 | Back in the Align panel I am going to
align my objects to the left edges and
| | 00:30 | then also align them on their top edges.
| | 00:33 | I can close this panel.
| | 00:34 | Now before I create a multi-state
object I want all these images to fade in, so
| | 00:37 | I am going to go to my
Animation panel and choose Fade In.
| | 00:46 | Next, we'll go to our Object States
panel and create a new multi-State object.
| | 00:50 | We'll give the object the name slideshow.
| | 00:53 | Now in order to move from image to
image we have to have buttons to go
| | 01:00 | forward and backward.
| | 01:01 | I am going to deselect
and select this back button.
| | 01:05 | Next, I'll go to my Button panel, and I
am going to add an action, On Release,
| | 01:10 | Go To Previous State.
| | 01:11 | I'll select the next button, go
to the action Go To Next State.
| | 01:18 | Now let's preview our movie.
| | 01:22 | On this page, if I click the next
button it goes to the next image and
| | 01:25 | every time I click it goes
from image to image to image.
| | 01:27 | If I want to go back, I can press to go back.
| | 01:30 | You notice I can continue
forever in either direction.
| | 01:36 | If I want to stop at the beginning of
the list or end of the list, I can go back
| | 01:38 | to my Button panel or add
the action Stop at Last State.
| | 01:42 | This will stop me from
looping with the slideshow.
| | 01:44 | As you can see, a multi-state object
lets you present a lot of information in
| | 01:48 | a much smaller space.
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| Creating a loaded button| 00:00 | Most people think of buttons as a
way to go to the next something, like a
| | 00:03 | page or an image in a slideshow.
Buttons can also be used to trigger
| | 00:07 | animations when you click on them.
| | 00:09 | Let's create a button that will
trigger a series of talk bubbles to appear.
| | 00:12 | At the bottom of this page
I have a small food truck.
| | 00:15 | Let's add the animation to
have each of these bubbles appear.
| | 00:17 | I am going to select these bubbles,
go to my Animation panel, and choose
| | 00:23 | the Preset > Appear. Let's preview.
| | 00:30 | As you can see, each of them
are appearing one after another.
| | 00:32 | But I want them to appear in a
different order and I want them to appear when I
| | 00:36 | click on this button.
| | 00:39 | Let's open the Animation panel. Inside
the Animation panel the Event is set to
| | 00:43 | On Page Load. That's why all of these bubbles
appeared when the page loaded. Let's change this.
| | 00:48 | I am going to turn off On Page Load.
| | 00:51 | Right now, there's no event for them.
| | 00:53 | If I was to preview this
animation, nothing would happen.
| | 00:56 | Instead, we're going to come
over here to this little button.
| | 00:58 | This button is a button trigger.
| | 01:00 | When I click on this, my cursor changes
into a crosshair and I can mouse over a
| | 01:05 | click on any button on the layout.
| | 01:06 | I am going to click on the Food Truck button.
| | 01:08 | As soon as I click on the Food Truck
button, the Button panel will open up and
| | 01:13 | we can see that it's set to On Release,
play all of these animations. Let's preview.
| | 01:21 | Right now, the bubbles are ready to load,
but they are not going to load until I
| | 01:24 | click on the Truck button. Let's click.
| | 01:29 | Each button appears one after another.
| | 01:30 | If I want to change the order of
them, I'll open the Timing panel.
| | 01:33 | I am going to put them in the
order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That's better.
| | 01:39 | To make this more interesting, let's
add a sound effect as each bubble appears.
| | 01:44 | I still have my Truck button selected,
and I am going to go to the Button
| | 01:47 | panel, and I am going to add another Action,
Sound > eatSpread_speechBubble, Option > Play.
| | 01:53 | I am going to repeat this action four
more times. And finally the last one.
| | 02:04 | Now I want this sound to
play after each animation plays.
| | 02:09 | I am going to grab this sound effect
and drag it up so it plays after the
| | 02:12 | Animation (bubble 1).
| | 02:13 | Then I'll go down and
repeat the process for the rest.
| | 02:17 | Now let's test our movie.
| | 02:20 | When I click on the Truck button--
| | 02:22 | (Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh)
| | 02:28 | we hear the sound effect as each bubble appears.
| | 02:31 | We just used button triggers to play in
animation, but they can also be used to
| | 02:34 | stop, play, resume, or
even reverse an animation.
| | 02:38 | Button triggers are just another
way to add interactivity to your
| | 02:41 | InDesign creations.
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| Creating an interactive map| 00:00 | Multi-state objects can take up the same
space for every state, like a slideshow,
| | 00:04 | or they can be used for any
amount of content on a page.
| | 00:07 | This could be useful for different
variations of a design, part of a hot-spot,
| | 00:11 | or even a pop-up window.
| | 00:12 | On this map I have already
created a multi-state object.
| | 00:15 | So I'll grab my Selection tool and
I select this multi-state object.
| | 00:18 | I can go to the Object States panel,
and we can see that there is a different
| | 00:22 | state for every portion of the map.
| | 00:24 | I am going to leave it on All for right now.
| | 00:28 | Over on the left I have a series of
buttons and when I click on the Move button
| | 00:31 | I want to show only the move state.
| | 00:33 | So I am going to double-click to select
this button, open my Button panel, and
| | 00:38 | add an action to Go To State.
| | 00:44 | I am going to choose the state, Move,
and I am going to repeat the process
| | 00:48 | for the other buttons, Go To Eat, Go To State,
Eat, Live, Go To State, Live, and Enjoy, Enjoy.
| | 01:10 | Let's preview.
| | 01:11 | (Hum as map swoops in)
| | 01:18 | Our map comes in, and I can click on
each of the buttons to go to each state.
| | 01:24 | To make this more interesting,
let's add a sound effect.
| | 01:26 | I am going to select this button again,
go to my Button panel, and I am going to
| | 01:32 | add another action for a sound, and
we are going to play the mapClick sound.
| | 01:37 | I am also going to do this to the other buttons.
| | 01:58 | Now let's preview again.
| | 01:59 | (Hum as map swoops in)
| | 02:07 | (Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh)
| | 02:11 | There we have a nice
sound effect for each button.
| | 02:13 | But if I want to see all of them,
we have a little button here that I can
| | 02:16 | choose to add all of them.
| | 02:17 | I am going to double-click
down. Select this button.
| | 02:23 | I am going to add Go To State, All,
and then I'll add an action to play
| | 02:32 | that same sound effect.
| | 02:37 | The last thing I want to do on
this map is add a pop-up effect.
| | 02:40 | I am going to open my Multi-State Objects
and there are two layers that are hidden.
| | 02:44 | I am turn On Empty and Grease Cart.
| | 02:47 | The Grease Cart is a big pop-up window,
but if I scroll up you can see I have an
| | 02:50 | empty frame up here.
| | 02:51 | I am going to hold the Shift key
and select both of them and create
| | 02:54 | a multi-state object.
| | 02:56 | I am going to rename State 1 to None,
and I am going to rename the object pop-up.
| | 03:08 | When I click on this button,
I want to open up the pop-up window.
| | 03:11 | So I am going to go to my Button panel,
add an action, and say Go To State.
| | 03:16 | I am going to choose the pop-up multi-
state object, and I am going to choose
| | 03:21 | the state Grease Cart. Let's preview.
| | 03:24 | (Hum as map swoops in)
| | 03:28 | Now if I click on this button I get
the pop-up window, but I can't close it.
| | 03:33 | There is a Close button, but it's not working.
| | 03:36 | Let's add the Close button.
| | 03:37 | I am going to go back to my multi-state
object, select the None, switch to the
| | 03:42 | Grease Cart State, and then double-
click to select the Close button.
| | 03:45 | I'll open my Button panel and add
an action, Go To State, pop-up, None.
| | 03:52 | Now that will close the pop-up window,
and let's preview for one last time.
| | 03:56 | (Hum as map swoops in)
| | 04:02 | The map fades in.
| | 04:04 | I can click on any of these buttons to see a map,
(whoosh, whoosh) or I can see all of them, and
| | 04:09 | if I click on this, I get a pop-
up window and I can close it.
| | 04:13 | Well, that may have seen like a lot of work.
| | 04:16 | It goes to show the importance
of naming your objects correctly.
| | 04:19 | When everything in your document is
logically organized it makes creating
| | 04:22 | interactive content that much easier.
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| Creative tip: Have fun!| 00:00 | Adding interactivity to a document allows you
to access more information in a variety of ways.
| | 00:05 | Despite this, you should not forget
about the little things, which can make your
| | 00:08 | design be that much more enjoyable.
| | 00:10 | Sometimes is useful to add animation,
use buttons, or even audio just for
| | 00:14 | the sake of having fun.
| | 00:15 | On this page I am going to select this button.
| | 00:17 | We are going to go to the Button panel,
and we are going top add a Rollover state.
| | 00:21 | While we are on the Rollover state I am
going to open up the Button layer, the
| | 00:26 | Bouy_btn layer, the Rollover layer,
and finally I am going to select the Bouy
| | 00:30 | itself by clicking the square.
| | 00:32 | I want to move over, so I can see this,
| | 00:35 | grab my Zoom tool, and zoom in closer.
| | 00:40 | with the buoy selected, I am going
to change its rotation to -17 degrees.
| | 00:45 | Now let's preview this spread.
| | 00:46 | When I mouse over the buoy,
it rotates back and forth.
| | 00:50 | While right now it doesn't have a real
functional purpose, it's kind of fun.
| | 00:53 | If you're working in this page, you
might accidentally mouse over the buoy and
| | 00:57 | see a little animation, and
it will bring a smile to your face.
| | 00:59 | Let's close this panel
and go to the first stage.
| | 01:01 | I am going to zoom up by hitting
Command+0 and the Mac or Ctrl+0 on the PC.
| | 01:07 | Then I am going to grab my
selection tool and select this first gear.
| | 01:12 | With this gear selected, I am going to
the Animation panel and add a Rotation of
| | 01:16 | 180 degrees, a Duration of 6
seconds, and then I am going to loop it.
| | 01:21 | This is going to cause the gear to
loop endlessly, but I don't want it to
| | 01:25 | happen on a page load.
| | 01:26 | I am going to turn this off.
| | 01:27 | What I want to happen is when I mouse
over this area, I want the gear to spin.
| | 01:33 | So I am going to select this button, go
my Button panel, and I am going to add
| | 01:38 | an action On Roll Over.
| | 01:39 | I already have a Roll
Over effect to play an MP3.
| | 01:41 | I am going to add an action, to go to an
Animation. I am going to choose gear 1 and choose Play.
| | 01:49 | Then I'm going to go to Event, On
Roll Off, add an action to Animation.
| | 01:55 | I am going to choose
Animation gear 1 and choose Stop.
| | 02:02 | Let's move over the gear and see what happens.
| | 02:04 | (Gears grinding)
| | 02:05 | You will notice as I mouse over
this button the animation doesn't play.
| | 02:09 | I can hear the audio playing, but it takes a
few moments for the gear to start spinning.
| | 02:13 | What's happening is the audio is about
5 seconds long and we have to wait for
| | 02:17 | that audio to finish playing
before we can see the gear animate.
| | 02:19 | To fix this, we need to use the Timing panel.
| | 02:21 | I am going to the Timing panel, and
you'll see On Roll Over I have the MP3
| | 02:28 | and the gear animation.
| | 02:29 | I am going to select both of these by
holding my Shift key and choose Play Together.
| | 02:33 | Then I am going into On Roll Off,
select both of them and have them
| | 02:37 | play together as well.
| | 02:38 | This way when I mouse over the button,
the animation and audio will play at the
| | 02:42 | same time and when I mouse off,
they will both stop. Let's preview.
| | 02:48 | (Gears grinding)
| | 02:50 | Just as I expected.
| | 02:52 | Trying to understand timing, buttons,
and animations may seem like a lot to grasp,
| | 02:56 | but at the end of the day
don't forget to have some fun.
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8. Creating an interactive Mood BoardWhat we're going to build| 00:00 | A mood board is a style guide that is meant
to share the look and feel of a design project.
| | 00:04 | I recommend that you create a mood
board for all of your design projects that
| | 00:06 | involve more than one person.
| | 00:08 | This particular mood board contains
ideas for masthead, fonts, colors, and
| | 00:11 | graphic treatments for the local
magazine of the city of Meridian.
| | 00:14 | When we refresh this page we
will see the opening animation.
| | 00:19 | It begins with the white from the bottom,
and then each graphical element fades
| | 00:22 | slowly into the page.
| | 00:24 | A masthead study is a slideshow that
shows a variety of logos or masthead ideas
| | 00:28 | that the designer developed
while working on this identity.
| | 00:30 | So we can press the forward and backward
buttons to decide which is our favorite logo.
| | 00:35 | When we go to the next page, we can see
the final logo, which slowly fades away
| | 00:39 | to show its usage on a
variety of magazine covers.
| | 00:44 | The color page shows the color palette of
each color that could be used in the magazine.
| | 00:48 | A subtle animation
introduces us to each color square.
| | 00:51 | We have a button that introduces a stroke
or removes the stroke around each color chip.
| | 00:57 | The Typography page shows a
series of six different fonts.
| | 01:00 | When we click on each font, we can see
what each font would look like in usage.
| | 01:05 | We can also hit the On button to see all
of the fonts and turn them all off again.
| | 01:09 | A mood board is a wonderful way to
convey the mood of a project to others.
| | 01:12 | By adding interactivity you can help
others become more engaged in the process
| | 01:16 | and maybe even have a little fun along the way.
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| Creating the opening transition| 00:00 | I want to start of mood board by
creating a memorable impression that lets the
| | 00:03 | user know that this is not your
run-of-the-mill static document.
| | 00:06 | We are going to create a series of
animations that quickly bring all of our
| | 00:09 | design elements into place
over a short amount of time.
| | 00:12 | We are going to begin our
presentation by selecting the white background,
| | 00:16 | opening the Animation panel, and choosing
the preset Fly in and Blur from the bottom.
| | 00:20 | Next, we are going to set the
Duration to .75 seconds and set the reference
| | 00:23 | point to the top middle.
| | 00:24 | Now we will select our motion path
and then extend it all the way beyond
| | 00:29 | the bottom of the page.
| | 00:29 | Our next step is the banner.
| | 00:33 | The banner has a front and the back.
| | 00:35 | It might be hard to select the back
so if you hold down Command or Ctrl and
| | 00:38 | click, you're able to select the back piece.
| | 00:40 | When you have the back piece selected,
we are going to open the Animation panel,
| | 00:44 | and we are going to choose Fly in from Right.
| | 00:46 | We set its Duration to half a second.
| | 00:49 | We will select the motion path, switch
to a Direct Selection tool, and extend
| | 00:55 | it to the lower right.
| | 00:56 | Switch to the selection tool
and select the banner front.
| | 00:59 | With this selected, go to the
Preset panel and choose Fly in from Left.
| | 01:03 | We will set the Duration to half a second,
switch to the Direct Selection tool, and
| | 01:08 | put it off at an angle the same as the banner.
| | 01:09 | Now let's make the cityscape and logos appear.
| | 01:12 | Using your Selection tool, I am going to Shift
+Click and select as many elements as I can.
| | 01:17 | With these selected, I am going to
change the Preset Fade In. I am going to
| | 01:20 | select the cityscape logo, and I am
going to set the Duration to half a second
| | 01:25 | and the city logo background
to three quarters of the second.
| | 01:28 | Now let's test our animation.
| | 01:35 | Everything animates as expected,
but the timing seems to be off.
| | 01:38 | We are going to adjust the timing in a few
moments after we fix the animation of the clouds.
| | 01:42 | Let's start by selecting the left-hand clouds.
| | 01:45 | With these clouds selected, I will go over
to my Animation panel and choose Move Right.
| | 01:49 | I am going to choose Hide
Until Animated and Loop.
| | 01:52 | I am going to select the first cloud,
set its Duration to 20 seconds, and then
| | 01:56 | select its motion path and extend
it to where the other clouds reside.
| | 02:00 | I will repeat the process on the
second cloud except for changing its
| | 02:03 | duration to 15 seconds.
| | 02:04 | Then I'll extend that motion
path to where the other clouds are.
| | 02:07 | Moving to the right clouds, hold Shift,
grab both of those clouds, set the preset
| | 02:12 | to Move Left, Loop and Hide Until
Animated, I'll select the top cloud, select
| | 02:18 | its motion path, move it to the other
clouds, select that cloud and change its
| | 02:22 | Duration to 18 seconds.
| | 02:25 | The bottom cloud, its motion path to the
other side, and its Duration to 30 seconds.
| | 02:31 | Now that I have my clouds animated, I need to
hide them before they begin their animation.
| | 02:35 | I'm going to grab the Rectangle Frame tool
and draw a rectangle to cover the clouds.
| | 02:39 | I am going to change its Fill to Paper.
| | 02:43 | Then grab my selection tool and Option+
Drag or Alt+Drag a copy to put on top
| | 02:47 | of the other clouds.
| | 02:48 | I am going to hold down my Shift key, grab
both of the frames and group them together.
| | 02:52 | With both of them selected, I am
going to name the group opaque rectangles.
| | 02:55 | I am going to add the animation
preset Appear and Hide Until Animated.
| | 03:02 | Now that I have my animations complete it's
time to set the proper timing for the page.
| | 03:06 | I am going to go to my Timing panel and
I need to reorder everything inside this panel.
| | 03:10 | I am going to select group and banner
by holding the Shift key, and I am going
| | 03:14 | to choose to play them together.
| | 03:15 | I am going to grab banner and
set its Delay to a quarter second.
| | 03:18 | I am going to put cityscape underneath
banner and then opaque rectangles right
| | 03:22 | under the cityscape.
| | 03:23 | I am going to play these two together and
set a Delay of a quarter second on cityscape.
| | 03:28 | I am going to grab Clouds 5 and put
that underneath Logotype 1, grab MAGAZINE
| | 03:33 | CITY GUIDE and put that underneath Clouds 5.
| | 03:35 | Next is button 3 followed by line,
Clouds 1, and finally Left 1 and Left 2.
| | 03:41 | Now for the delays.
| | 03:42 | Magazine needs a quarter
second, Clouds 1 needs 6 seconds.
| | 03:47 | Next, I'll go to the Clouds Left 1 and give
it 2 seconds and Clouds Left 2 needs 6 seconds.
| | 03:55 | Now that we have all the delays set I
am going to select Clouds 5, hold Shift
| | 03:59 | and click on Clouds 2 and
tell them all to play together.
| | 04:01 | Let's preview our animation.
| | 04:05 | Everything comes in as expected.
| | 04:06 | We have each animated element pop in,
and then the clouds will slowly appear.
| | 04:10 | As your animations become more complex,
getting everything to play at the right
| | 04:13 | time may seem difficult, but when you
use the Preview panel you can test your
| | 04:17 | animations until you've
everything timed perfectly.
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| Creating a logo slideshow| 00:00 | On this page of the mood board we are
going to show some variations of the
| | 00:03 | Masthead or logo for a city guide.
| | 00:05 | The conventional approach will be to
list each logo on the page, but having
| | 00:09 | logos next to each other
can be quite distracting.
| | 00:12 | By using a slideshow we can let the
viewer focus on each masthead by itself,
| | 00:16 | before moving to the next one.
| | 00:17 | We are going to begin by
placing the mastheads on the page.
| | 00:20 | We are going to go to File > Place
and inside our Links folder we have a
| | 00:23 | snippets folder where we are
going to select masthead.idms.
| | 00:26 | We are going to place this snippet on
our page and with all of them selected we
| | 00:32 | are going to go to our Align panel, and
we are going to align their horizontal
| | 00:35 | centers and their vertical centers
to stack them on top of each other.
| | 00:38 | Next, we are going to go to the
Object States panel and make new a
| | 00:41 | multi-state object.
| | 00:43 | We'll give it the name slideshow and
then click and drag to align it on the page.
| | 00:48 | Next, let's order these in their correct order.
| | 00:50 | I am going to open up this panel and
then put logotype 1 at the top followed
| | 00:53 | by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
| | 00:56 | Now, we need to program the
buttons to make them work.
| | 00:58 | I am going to select the first button,
go to our Buttons panel, and I am going
| | 01:03 | to add an action that says Go To Next State.
| | 01:05 | Let's go ahead and pick up the slideshow.
| | 01:07 | We will grab the previous button and
repeat the process by Go To Previous State.
| | 01:11 | Now, let's preview our animation.
| | 01:13 | When we click it seems to be working.
| | 01:17 | If we go back it goes to the previous.
| | 01:19 | Now, what happens if we want to
add one more logo to our slideshow?
| | 01:22 | Let's grab our Type tool
and draw out a new text frame.
| | 01:25 | We are going to type out Local, and we
are going to select this and change this
| | 01:29 | to Minion Pro, Bold, and
we'll make the font be 150.
| | 01:36 | Next, we'll grab our Selection tool
and we'll choose Fit frame to content.
| | 01:40 | Now, we'll cut it to our clipboard
and we'll select our multi-state object.
| | 01:44 | Inside the Object States panel we are
going to select Logotype 6 and drag it
| | 01:48 | down to duplicate that particular state.
| | 01:50 | On Logo 6 copy we are going to hit
the star button that says Paste copied
| | 01:55 | objects into selected state.
| | 01:57 | When we do this it's going to
paste in the logo that we made earlier.
| | 02:01 | Now, in this particular state
we need to hide the old logo.
| | 02:04 | We are going to open up the MSO layer,
open up slideshow, Logotype 6 copy, and
| | 02:09 | then hide all of the
layers that don't say local.
| | 02:11 | Now that we have the
state finished, let's preview.
| | 02:16 | As we click through, all of
our logos appear as expected.
| | 02:22 | When you're creating a clickable
slideshow it is important to remember
| | 02:24 | to thoroughly test it.
| | 02:25 | Sometimes you catch little mistakes,
like the buttons are too small or the slides
| | 02:29 | are in the wrong order.
| | 02:29 | It is better to catch the problem now
than when it's too late to make a change.
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| Animating the color palette| 00:00 | When you want to introduce a lot of
new information to your audience, it is a
| | 00:03 | good idea to present it in a
way that is not overwhelming.
| | 00:06 | On this page, we have a large number
of color chips that I want to fade in
| | 00:10 | but not all at once.
| | 00:11 | Using the Timing panel, we can control
the timing of their appearance when we
| | 00:14 | first open the page.
| | 00:15 | We are going to begin by grabbing our
Selection tool, and selecting all of these squares.
| | 00:19 | With all of these squares selected, we
are going to open our Animation panel and
| | 00:23 | change the preset to Fade In.
| | 00:25 | Next, we'll set the Duration to 0.5
seconds. We can close that panel and then
| | 00:30 | we are going to group them.
| | 00:31 | With our group selected, we are going
to go to the Object State panel, make a
| | 00:34 | new object state and add one more state.
| | 00:36 | We'll call our object state "squares,"
and we are going to name the three states.
| | 00:41 | The first one will be
animated, no stroke and stroke.
| | 00:48 | Next we'll deselect, select again,
switch to our Direct Selection tool, open the
| | 00:52 | Animation panel, and change the preset to None.
| | 00:55 | Next, we'll switch to the no stroke
state, deselect, switch to our Selection tool,
| | 01:01 | select the object, switch to the
Direct Selection tool again, open the
| | 01:05 | Animation panel and choose None.
| | 01:09 | The reason we've removed the animation
on these particular states is we don't
| | 01:12 | want them to animate when they become active.
| | 01:15 | Next, we are going to deselect, open the
Object States panel, grab our Selection
| | 01:19 | tool, select the state of stroke,
switch to our Direct Selection tool, and add a
| | 01:24 | 10 pt black stroke to our object.
| | 01:26 | We'll switch back to the animated
state as our default, and then close the
| | 01:31 | Object States panel.
| | 01:32 | Now, let's test our animation.
| | 01:35 | You can see that the
squares are randomly animating.
| | 01:38 | I want to create more of a pattern.
| | 01:39 | Let's open up our Timing panel.
| | 01:41 | Inside our Timing panel,
we don't currently see anything.
| | 01:45 | What we need to do is select our object
and switch to the Direct Selection tool.
| | 01:49 | Now, we are going to see on
state load for animated squares.
| | 01:53 | Let's put these in a different order.
| | 01:54 | We are going to start with 1 followed
by 2, then 4, 5 and 3, then 6, 11, 10,
| | 02:06 | 12, 7, 13, 14, 8 and 15 and 9.
| | 02:18 | Now, let's play some of these together.
4 and 5, 3 and 6, 11, 10 and 12 and 7 and 13.
| | 02:33 | Finally, we are going to
add a delay to a few of them.
| | 02:35 | We are going to select 5, hold down
Command or Ctrl on the PC, 6, 10, 12 and 13.
| | 02:43 | With all of these selected,
we'll set a Delay to 0.1 seconds.
| | 02:47 | Now that I have the timing
finished, let's preview the animation.
| | 02:51 | Now, the color chips appear
in a slow consistent order.
| | 02:55 | Now that the animation is complete,
we need to program our buttons.
| | 02:58 | I am going to grab my Selection
tool and select this first square.
| | 03:01 | This square is going to hide all of our strokes.
| | 03:04 | I am going to open up the Button panel.
| | 03:05 | We are going to add an action that
says Go To State, and we'll the choose
| | 03:10 | square object, no stroke.
| | 03:13 | Next, we'll select the Stroke button,
open the Button panel, and add an action, Go
| | 03:19 | To State and show stroke.
| | 03:24 | Now, let's test the page.
| | 03:25 | The squares slowly appear.
My button shows the strokes and my other
| | 03:28 | button removes them.
| | 03:29 | If you ever find yourself forgetting
what square's which number, you can
| | 03:33 | always double-click its name in the Timing
panel, and it will become selected in the layout.
| | 03:37 | This is useful for fine-tuning your animation.
| | 03:40 | Feel free to experiment with the
timing to create your own version of
| | 03:42 | the animated squares.
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| Combining multistate objects and buttons| 00:00 | On this page, I want to allow you to
be able to see all of the fonts, none of
| | 00:04 | the fonts, or just one of the fonts
depending on how you interact with the page.
| | 00:08 | To do this, we are going to use
multi-state objects combined with a
| | 00:12 | few different buttons.
| | 00:13 | This may seem pretty complicated,
but if you follow closely along, you'll get
| | 00:16 | it to work in no time.
| | 00:17 | Our first step is to create a
multi-state object for all of the fonts.
| | 00:21 | I am going to hold down the Shift Key
and select all of the alphabets, and I am
| | 00:25 | also going to grab this little empty frame.
| | 00:27 | I am going to group all of our objects,
and go to our Object States panel, and
| | 00:31 | make a new multi-state object.
| | 00:32 | I am going to name the object
"fonts," and then I need to create a total of
| | 00:37 | eight states, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
and now I need to name each of these states.
| | 00:48 | The first one will be none, the second
one needs to be all, then Chaparral Pro
| | 00:54 | Bold, Cooper Black, Myriad Pro Bold,
Chaparral Pro, Letter Gothic, and Myriad Pro Regular.
| | 01:23 | Now that we have these named correctly,
we need to have each state accurately
| | 01:27 | represent what we see on the page.
| | 01:29 | For none, we are going to go in and we
are going to double-click and delete all
| | 01:33 | of the frames except for the empty frame.
| | 01:44 | For all, we can leave it alone.
| | 01:47 | For Chaparral Pro Bold, we need to
remove all of them except for Chaparral Pro
| | 01:51 | Bold, and then we need to repeat
the process for the other fonts.
| | 02:01 | Now that we have our multi-state
objects finished, we need to program the
| | 02:05 | buttons to make sure they
go to the correct state.
| | 02:07 | We are going to start with Chaparral
Pro Bold by going to the Buttons panel and
| | 02:12 | adding an action on release to go to a state.
| | 02:15 | We're going to choose the Object > Fonts
and the State will be Chapparal Pro Bold.
| | 02:24 | We're going to add another action for
On Off buttons at the top of the page.
| | 02:29 | We're going to choose Go To State, the Off_
Radial, and I want the state to be Filled.
| | 02:36 | We'll add another action, Go To State.
| | 02:39 | We'll choose the On_Radial,
and we want the State to be Hollow.
| | 02:44 | Now, I am going to repeat
this on the rest of these fonts.
| | 02:50 | Now that the font buttons are finished, we
have to modify the Show and Hide All buttons.
| | 02:54 | We are going to select the Off button,
and we are going to add the action Go To
| | 03:01 | State on the fonts to go to none.
| | 03:05 | The On button, Go To State, fonts, all.
| | 03:15 | Now, let's test our page.
| | 03:17 | When we click on each of these buttons,
the correct font shows, and if I press
| | 03:23 | the On button, they all come on,
and they'll go off with the Off button.
| | 03:26 | As you can see from the layout, multi-
state objects are not just for slideshows.
| | 03:30 | They can be used whenever you want
something to appear different in your layout
| | 03:33 | as the user interacts with
the document in a certain way.
| | 03:37 | As with most aspects of InDesign,
the more you use it, the more uses you
| | 03:40 | will find for it.
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9. Creating an Interactive CatalogWhat we're going to build| 00:00 | Some people think of PDFs as exact
replications of print, and that is sometimes true.
| | 00:05 | However, by adding interactivity to your
InDesign document we can make static pages come alive.
| | 00:10 | Looking at this PDF in Adobe
Reader, I have two navigation buttons on
| | 00:13 | the right-hand side.
| | 00:14 | I can jump to the last
spread and the first spread.
| | 00:18 | When I go to the next spread button
I have a thumbnail preview to go to the next
| | 00:21 | spread, and these buttons carry
out throughout the entire PDF.
| | 00:25 | The second spread has a video
inline, or I can click to activate it.
| | 00:28 | (Music playing)
| | 00:33 | (Male speaker: Welcome to the--)
| | 00:34 | (Music playing)
| | 00:36 | And use the buttons at the bottom to
jump the specific points inside the video.
| | 00:40 | At the bottom of the page there are a
series of controls that let me zoom out
| | 00:44 | and zoom in to the page as well as
print and email this particular PDF.
| | 00:49 | We also have a mini table of contents
that let's me bring to a particular spread.
| | 00:52 | As I go forward in the document, there
is an interactive slideshow where I can
| | 00:59 | click on each of these
buttons to see a particular slide.
| | 01:02 | So if I no longer want to see the
slides, I can press the little Close button
| | 01:05 | and it will close the slide.
| | 01:08 | At the bottom of the page we have
another URL and there are a few other URLs
| | 01:11 | throughout the document.
| | 01:12 | When I click on this link it will launch my
web browser and bring me to that web site.
| | 01:18 | Adding interactivity to your catalog
or any layout is a wonderful way to set
| | 01:21 | your work apart from a
crowded sea of competitors.
| | 01:23 | Now let's get started on creating this catalog.
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| Building an interactive table of contents| 00:00 | A table of contents provides clear
and simple navigation in your document.
| | 00:04 | Unfortunately, since they usually
reside at the beginning of your publication,
| | 00:08 | it can be an inconvenience to
navigate back to find the correct page that
| | 00:11 | you're looking for.
| | 00:12 | Easy access to the rest of your
document via a mini table of contents is only a
| | 00:16 | click away when you use buttons and hyperlinks.
| | 00:18 | Here in our document we're going to
be creating a table of contents for the
| | 00:22 | bottom of our page, and we're
going to go to the A master page.
| | 00:26 | We'll double-click and
we're going to zoom in down here.
| | 00:28 | I'm going to select Explore California
and when I want to happen is when the
| | 00:34 | user clicks on this button they're
going to be jumping to page 2, where
| | 00:37 | Explore California lives.
| | 00:38 | So if I come over to the Button panel,
and I add an Action that says Go To Page,
| | 00:44 | that really wouldn't work,
because this is SWF Only.
| | 00:46 | I want to this action to
work both in SWFs and PDFs.
| | 00:49 | So I am going to be using the
option called Go To Destination.
| | 00:53 | Unfortunately, I don't have any destination
made right now, and I need to create those.
| | 00:57 | To create a destination, I am going
to go over to page 2, and I am going to
| | 01:01 | select the text Explore California,
because this is the spot that I want
| | 01:05 | the destination to be.
| | 01:06 | Inside my Hyperlinks panel menu,
there is an option called New Hyperlink
| | 01:10 | Destination. Because I have my text
selected, Explore California, it's going
| | 01:14 | to populate the field with what I had selected,
and we're going to add this as a text anchor.
| | 01:19 | We'll click OK and then we're going
to repeat this for the rest of them.
| | 01:22 | So if you go to page 4, we'll select
the Desert to Sea, and we'll come in here,
| | 01:26 | and add that as new
hyperlink destination. Click OK.
| | 01:29 | On page 6 we've got the Taste
of California. Sounds tasty.
| | 01:32 | We'll make a new
destination for that. We'll click OK.
| | 01:36 | Page 8.
We'll watch the nature.
| | 01:38 | Come in here. New destination, OK,
and finally Snowboarding, oh yeah!
| | 01:44 | We'll come over here, and we'll click OK.
| | 01:46 | Now that we've got those done, we're
going to go back to our interactive TOC,
| | 01:49 | and we'll scroll down and
select Explore California.
| | 01:55 | At our Buttons panel when we choose the
destination, we have all of them listed.
| | 01:59 | If I choose Explore California, there we go.
| | 02:02 | I am also going to come down to Desert to Sea.
| | 02:05 | We'll add another action Go To Destination.
| | 02:08 | Desert to Sea is the first one.
| | 02:10 | That one is done for us.
| | 02:11 | Taste of California, Go To Destination,
and we'll say Taste of California.
| | 02:18 | And Nature Watch, Go to Destination,
and there is Nature Watch right there,
| | 02:24 | and finally Snowboard California, we can Go
To Destination and Snowboard is right there.
| | 02:34 | Now that I have all of these done,
we need to actually have the button,
| | 02:37 | when I click on this button, for the button to
make the rest of the table of contents appear.
| | 02:41 | So when I click the Contents button,
I am going to add an action that says
| | 02:45 | show and hide these individual buttons.
| | 02:47 | Now not only are these buttons, but the
whole container around them is a button,
| | 02:52 | as well as the Close button.
| | 02:54 | So I need to make the visibility of
these visible when the user would click on
| | 02:58 | the table of contents.
| | 02:59 | So I am going to make the table of
contents California be visible, as well
| | 03:03 | as Nature, Taste of California,
Desert, the close, the contents, and
| | 03:14 | Explore California.
| | 03:15 | When I test this, let's see if this works.
| | 03:18 | I click the button, all this seems to
be working, but I want it to be able to go
| | 03:22 | away by clicking the Close button.
| | 03:24 | So in order for that to work, I need
to select my Close button and I come to
| | 03:29 | the Buttons panel, and I am going to
add another action for Show/Hide Buttons,
| | 03:33 | and we want to make them Hidden.
| | 03:34 | So if I come here, I'm just going to
click twice, so I get to hide that button,
| | 03:38 | and we'll go to the rest of these.
| | 03:39 | We'll hide the contents, the close, and
rest of the TOC buttons. There we go.
| | 03:47 | All of those are done.
| | 03:47 | Let's go to page 2 and preview this.
| | 03:51 | And now we're looking at our page, and
we decide oh, let's go to another page.
| | 03:54 | I will click on here.
| | 03:56 | They all become visible.
| | 03:57 | If I click on one of these,
it would bring me to Explore California.
| | 04:01 | If I click Close, it closes.
| | 04:04 | Be sure to accommodate an area of
your document that will allow the user to
| | 04:07 | clearly see and interact
with your table of contents.
| | 04:10 | You may also want to design your
mini table of contents with enough contrast,
| | 04:13 | so that it can be easily read in
interactive with, regardless of the content
| | 04:17 | that may appear above.
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| Building a navigation system| 00:00 | Every digital document that you
create will ultimately have to utilize
| | 00:03 | a navigation system.
| | 00:05 | By placing a tiny image of each page
on a button, you will let the user see a
| | 00:08 | small thumbnail preview of the next
and previous page as they navigate
| | 00:11 | throughout the document.
| | 00:12 | A document has been designed
within the margins of the document.
| | 00:16 | Outside of that margin is
an area for our buttons.
| | 00:19 | When I select this button, you
can see there is a rollover state.
| | 00:25 | The purpose of the rollover state is to
create a pop-up effect for a preview to
| | 00:28 | the next page and the previous page.
| | 00:30 | Previously to this, I've exported the
entire document to a PDF with spreads.
| | 00:34 | I'm going to double-click
down to select this blank area.
| | 00:37 | We're going to do a File >
Place and grab button-thumbs.pdf.
| | 00:44 | I am going to hold the Shift key, so
we can get access to its import options.
| | 00:47 | And we're going to grab the Range
of 2, to show the second spread.
| | 00:50 | Now let's repeat this
process for the next spread.
| | 00:54 | I am going to double-click
down and do a File > Place.
| | 00:58 | We'll hold the Shift key for button-thumbs,
and we're going to reference the first spread.
| | 01:06 | And then finally the third button,
I am going to double-click down.
| | 01:08 | We'll do a File > Place.
| | 01:11 | We'll hold the Shift key for buttons-thumbs.
| | 01:14 | And for this, we're not
going to reference page 4;
| | 01:15 | we're actually going to be
referencing the 3rd spread, which is 4 and 5.
| | 01:23 | Now that we have those finished, we can
repeat this throughout the entire document,
| | 01:26 | but there is a special area on
page 11 that we have to address.
| | 01:29 | When I go to page 11, you can see
there is still two more buttons here.
| | 01:33 | There is a Next page and a Last page button.
| | 01:36 | These buttons don't do anything, because
there are no more pages, and this could
| | 01:39 | be confusing to you.
| | 01:40 | To remove this, we'll hold Command+
Shift or Ctrl+Shift on the PC to override
| | 01:44 | these buttons, and then we'll just delete them.
| | 01:46 | Now that those are deleted, let's
preview. I'll go to page 2, open our Preview
| | 01:52 | panel, and we have our nice
Next and Previous Page buttons.
| | 01:59 | After implementing your buttons with
previews, you need to remember that if your
| | 02:02 | layout changes, the preview
will not update automatically.
| | 02:04 | Don't forget to export to a new
PDF and then just update your links.
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| Creating PDF-only buttons| 00:00 | When you're using buttons, you may
notice that there are a series of actions
| | 00:03 | labeled PDF Only and SWF Only.
| | 00:05 | This is because there are certain
actions that can only be accomplished by
| | 00:07 | that specific software.
| | 00:09 | You should design your document
with the final export in mind.
| | 00:12 | Inside our document,
I have a layer labeled PDF only.
| | 00:15 | By turning this layer on and off,
you'll see there are three buttons at the
| | 00:18 | bottom of the screen:
| | 00:19 | Zoom in, Zoom out and Print.
| | 00:21 | The reason I have these buttons on
their own layer is because the actions that
| | 00:24 | they perform will only
work inside an exported PDF.
| | 00:27 | I put them on their own layer
because if I want to export this file to a SWF,
| | 00:31 | having these buttons there would be
distracting to the user because they wouldn't work.
| | 00:35 | So if was going to be using this in a
SWF, I could just turn this off and
| | 00:38 | export to a SWF, and I
wouldn't have to worry about it.
| | 00:41 | But I am going to leave it on because
we're going to be talking about these buttons.
| | 00:43 | If I want to select one of these
buttons, it's on a master page.
| | 00:47 | So I need to go to the master page and then
I am going to zoom in down to these buttons.
| | 00:52 | I am going to select the Zoom in button
and I open the Button panel and I am
| | 00:56 | going to add an action for
PDF Only called View Zoom.
| | 00:59 | I am going to change the view from
Full Screen to Zoom In, because that's
| | 01:04 | what the button says.
| | 01:05 | I'll repeat the action for the zoom out.
| | 01:07 | I am going to add an
action, View Zoom, Zoom Out.
| | 01:12 | Now, you would think for print, I
would do the same thing, but unfortunately
| | 01:16 | there is no Print option inside PDF Only.
| | 01:18 | For that, we're going to have
to use Acrobat Professional.
| | 01:21 | Before we go to Acrobat there is one more
option that I want to talk about with the buttons.
| | 01:25 | Inside the Buttons panel menu,
there is an option called PDF Options.
| | 01:29 | In here, we can type in a tooltip.
| | 01:31 | Now, right now, I have it as Print.
| | 01:33 | If I wanted to type something
else, I can put this in here.
| | 01:35 | This way when you open up the PDF inside
Acrobat Professional, when you mouse over
| | 01:39 | the button, you'll have a little pop-
up window that'll tell you exactly what
| | 01:42 | your description is.
| | 01:43 | I've already set these up for all
of these buttons, but if you want to
| | 01:45 | change them, feel free to.
| | 01:46 | Now that we have our buttons
set up, let's export it to a PDF.
| | 01:51 | We're going to choose Adobe PDF (Interactive).
| | 01:54 | I am going to put this on our desktop.
| | 01:56 | We'll leave everything the same.
| | 01:57 | Make sure that the View PDF After
Exporting is turned on and we'll click OK.
| | 02:04 | Inside this PDF, let's test out our buttons.
| | 02:06 | I've got the Zoom out button, which
zooms me out, and I have got the Zoom in
| | 02:09 | button that zooms in.
| | 02:11 | But the Print button isn't currently working.
| | 02:13 | In order to add this attribute, I have
to go to the Control panel at the top of
| | 02:17 | the screen, right-click,
and choose Advanced Editing.
| | 02:19 | I am going to get access to the
Advanced Editing toolbar and I am going to
| | 02:25 | select the Select Object tool.
| | 02:26 | I am going to go down and
select the Print button.
| | 02:30 | I'll double-click to bring up its dialog box.
| | 02:32 | Inside the Actions menu, I am going to
choose execute a menu item and click Add.
| | 02:38 | From here, I'm going to
choose File > Print and click OK.
| | 02:43 | Now, to test this, I'll hit the Hand
button at the top, and I can come down and
| | 02:47 | click on the Print button,
and my Print dialog pops-up.
| | 02:51 | If you know you're going to be
designing for a PDF, you can take advantage of
| | 02:55 | these useful features.
| | 02:56 | Just remember that in order to set up
some of these actions, you'll have to use Acrobat Pro.
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| Using a SWF slideshow in a PDF| 00:00 | In an earlier video, we learned how
to create a linear slideshow that took
| | 00:03 | place from one slide to the next. But what if
you want to control what slide you want to see?
| | 00:08 | Using a different action in our buttons, we
can specify exactly which state we want to show.
| | 00:12 | In order to create our slideshow,
we have to create a multi-state object.
| | 00:16 | I am going to select all of these
images and come over to the Align panel and
| | 00:20 | align them at the top.
| | 00:22 | Now that they are all aligned one on top
of each other, I am going to come to my
| | 00:24 | Object States panel, and I am going to
hit the New Object State button, which
| | 00:29 | creates a new multi-state
object of each of our images.
| | 00:32 | I am going to name this slideshow
and then name each of these states.
| | 00:37 | This is going to be none.
| | 00:39 | This will be goldengates and then
we've got snowboarding and then we've got
| | 00:49 | our biking, our friend the seal, and the birds.
| | 01:00 | Now that we've made our multi-state
object, we can use the buttons to go to
| | 01:04 | a particular state.
| | 01:05 | So I am going to select the Golden Gate
Bridge button, open the Buttons panel,
| | 01:09 | and adding an action,
| | 01:10 | you can see we have a SWF Only
action, which is Go To State.
| | 01:13 | When I choose this, I can choose
specifically which state of the slideshow
| | 01:17 | that I want to go to.
| | 01:18 | I want to go to the Golden Gate state.
| | 01:20 | Now, we can repeat this
process for the other ones.
| | 01:23 | So I am going to grab Snowboarding, and
we are going to go to States, and we'll
| | 01:29 | say Snowboarding, and go to Biking, and
for Biking, we'll go to Biking, Seals,
| | 01:37 | visit our buddy, the Seal.
| | 01:38 | There he is and finally, the
Birds. Go to State and Birds.
| | 01:47 | Let's preview this.
| | 01:48 | Now, when I click on each of these,
you'll see the slideshow pops-up.
| | 01:55 | But what if I don't want
to see the slides anymore?
| | 01:58 | Well, I have developed a little Close button,
but the Close button isn't working right now.
| | 02:04 | We need to add one more state for this.
| | 02:06 | So if I select the Close button,
I can add the action, Go To State, and this
| | 02:11 | will be our None state.
| | 02:13 | So when you click this,
it will effectively close the button.
| | 02:15 | I am going to preview this.
| | 02:19 | Each of these will work.
| | 02:21 | Then I can close the slideshow.
| | 02:23 | Now that we have created this
interactive slideshow, what happens if we want to
| | 02:26 | export this to a PDF?
| | 02:28 | If we were to export this to a SWF,
it'd be fine because these actions are SWF
| | 02:31 | Only, but by exporting our layout to a
PDF, we wouldn't get this interaction,
| | 02:35 | but there is a workaround.
| | 02:36 | I am going to hide this panel and
what we can do is looking at this layout,
| | 02:41 | right now it's on a layer
called Editable Slideshow.
| | 02:43 | What I am going to do is I am going to
go to the SWF Slideshow layer and I am
| | 02:47 | going to draw out a couple of guides to
line up at the edge of this item. There we go.
| | 02:50 | I am going to select all of these
buttons and multi-state objects on the
| | 02:56 | Editable Slideshow layer.
| | 02:57 | Then I am going to go to Export.
| | 03:00 | Then I am going to export as a SWF file.
| | 03:03 | In Export, I am going to leave
it at Selection and click OK.
| | 03:06 | Now that I've exported the SWF,
I am going to hide this layer.
| | 03:09 | I am going to go to the SWF Slideshow
layer and I am going to go back and
| | 03:13 | place that SWF that we just exported.
| | 03:15 | I am going to go where the
guides intersect that we created.
| | 03:18 | I am going to place the SWF right back in.
| | 03:22 | After placing the SWF, we are going to
come over to the Media panel and I am
| | 03:25 | going to change the Poster to the Current Frame.
| | 03:27 | Then I am going to turn on Play on
Page Load, which means this SWF will play
| | 03:31 | immediately when this page loads.
| | 03:34 | Now that we've created this, we can
export this to an interactive PDF.
| | 03:37 | We're going to go to File > Export, and
choose Adobe PDF (Interactive) and hit Save.
| | 03:42 | I'll leave all the controls here the same.
| | 03:48 | Now that this is exported,
the SWF is actually working,
| | 03:51 | even though I am inside of PDF.
| | 03:53 | By exporting your SWF and placing it
back in, I'm able to include an interactive
| | 03:57 | SWF inside my Interactive PDF.
| | 04:00 | Using this method allows you to create
interesting and dynamic layouts using
| | 04:03 | buttons and multi-state objects.
| | 04:05 | Keep in mind that if you need to make
any changes, you're going to have to go
| | 04:07 | back to your Editable Slideshow layer
and re-export a SWF file before you can
| | 04:11 | re-export a new PDF.
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| Placing a video and using the Media panel| 00:00 | In previous versions of InDesign,
you were able to place videos.
| | 00:03 | But in order to view them,
you had to export your document.
| | 00:06 | With InDesign CS5, you can use the Media
panel to preview and control their playback.
| | 00:10 | Out first step is going to be
to select this video graphic frame.
| | 00:13 | With this empty graphic frame selected,
we are going to go to File > Place and
| | 00:16 | we're going to grab explore_
california_podcast-start.f4v.
| | 00:18 | I want to make sure I am
using Flash video files.
| | 00:22 | If you don't have FLV or F4V files,
you are going to want to convert these to
| | 00:26 | these formats with the Adobe Media Converter.
| | 00:28 | In order to convert your files to these
formats, please watch the layer video.
| | 00:32 | With this selected, I'll click Open and now
I have the video placed inside this frame.
| | 00:37 | Let's test our document.
| | 00:42 | Looking at the spread, you really
wouldn't know that there is a video here.
| | 00:45 | You can try clicking all over the place,
and you might happen to get lucky
| | 00:47 | and click somewhere --
| | 00:48 | (Music playing)
| | 00:55 | -- but there is no way to control the video
| | 00:57 | and I didn't even really know a file is there.
| | 00:59 | I just happen to be lucky
and click at that right spot.
| | 01:01 | So if we want to control this and have more
options we want to be using the Media panel.
| | 01:05 | I am going to come over here and
select the Media panel and with this video
| | 01:08 | selected inside the Media panel I
can control the video. I can hit Play.
| | 01:12 | (Music playing)
| | 01:15 | (Male speaker: I'm Ron Asquith--)
(Male speaker 2: ?and redwood forests?)
| | 01:18 | And jump to different areas.
| | 01:19 | I can also even mute the video if I like.
| | 01:22 | One of the options I have is on Page Load.
| | 01:24 | If I choose this option, as soon as this
page is finished loading the video will
| | 01:27 | start to play immediately.
| | 01:28 | I am not really a fan of this
option because it's kind of obnoxious.
| | 01:31 | It displays the video to you
immediately when you see this page.
| | 01:34 | I'd rather let the user to
control the video when it happens.
| | 01:37 | Another option is to loop the video
which means it will be playing continuous.
| | 01:41 | You can only do this if you
are going to be exporting to SWF.
| | 01:44 | One of the best options is the Poster.
| | 01:46 | The Poster is a graphic
representation of the video itself.
| | 01:49 | Right now, we don't have a poster
selected, which is why we see these
| | 01:51 | little empty lines.
| | 01:53 | Well, when I have nothing there you
don't really know that there is a video
| | 01:56 | file ready to play.
| | 01:58 | If I want to control that, I can
come here to the Poster options.
| | 02:01 | The first option is None which was nothing.
| | 02:03 | The second option is Standard.
| | 02:04 | Standard is just still generic for 35
millimeter film icon that is kind of ugly,
| | 02:09 | and I am not really a big fan of this.
| | 02:10 | The next option is From Current Frame.
| | 02:13 | This will grab whatever
frame is present in the playhead.
| | 02:17 | If you want a different frame, maybe
want something over here, we can refresh
| | 02:20 | this and get that particular frame.
| | 02:22 | I want something kind of near the beginning,
so maybe on here on 28 seconds I'll refresh.
| | 02:27 | That's looking a little better.
| | 02:29 | Down here we have the Controller.
| | 02:31 | The Controller will actually
let's us control the video file.
| | 02:33 | Do we want to play or
pause it, control its volume?
| | 02:36 | And here there is a variety of options.
| | 02:38 | I am going to choose
SkinOverallNoCaption, and then there is a little button
| | 02:42 | that says Show Controller on Rollover.
| | 02:44 | This means when you mouse over
the video, you'll get your controls.
| | 02:47 | When you mouse away you won't.
| | 02:49 | Here are our Navigation Points.
| | 02:51 | These let us control our playback
to a specific spot in the video.
| | 02:55 | We'll be exploring this in a later video.
| | 02:56 | And then finally, we have exporting PDF options.
| | 03:00 | Inside our PDF Options we can enter a
description, which would show up as a tooltip for the user.
| | 03:04 | The other option is to play the
video inside a floating window.
| | 03:08 | You can also control it's
particular size, Maximum, 4x, 2x.
| | 03:12 | Since we are not concerned about any of
these options we are just going to hit
| | 03:15 | Cancel for right now.
| | 03:16 | Now, let's test this. You can hit Play.
| | 03:24 | (Music playing)
| | 03:28 | (Male speaker: I'm Ron--)
| | 03:30 | And we are able
to fast forward and stop the video.
| | 03:32 | When I mouse away the video fades away.
| | 03:34 | Regardless if your ultimate intent is
PDF or SWF, you should be using Flash
| | 03:38 | media formats like FLV or F4V.
| | 03:41 | If you happen to use legacy media,
you'll receive a warning that recommends that
| | 03:44 | you convert your files to Flash video formats.
| | 03:47 | If you do use a legacy file, you can't
even use the Media panel because it won't
| | 03:50 | even work with those particular formats.
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| Setting navigation points| 00:00 | If you have a longer video in your
document, you may want to let the user jump
| | 00:03 | to a specific spot without having
to manually scrub the video slider.
| | 00:07 | By setting up custom navigation points,
you can connect buttons in your layout
| | 00:10 | to jump to these points.
| | 00:11 | We are going to start up by grabbing this
Flash video file and opening up the media player.
| | 00:16 | Down here are our navigation points.
| | 00:18 | We want to create one for our Intro,
Bottles, and Snow Boarding buttons.
| | 00:21 | That way when we click on these buttons,
they jump to that particular spot in the video.
| | 00:25 | Intro is going to be around 15 seconds.
| | 00:28 | We are going to scrub this guy to
about 15 seconds, and we'll hit the Plus
| | 00:33 | button and we'll type in Intro.
| | 00:36 | For Bottles, we are going to want to
put one at 4 minutes and 32 seconds.
| | 00:39 | So we'll drag this over
here, and it's pretty teased.
| | 00:43 | You got to get it right on about the 32
seconds, maybe even 33 is okay. There you go.
| | 00:48 | That's good. And we will hit
plus and we'll call this one Bottles.
| | 00:53 | Finally, Snow Boarding is going
to be at 5 minutes and 47 seconds.
| | 00:56 | So right around here is 05:47.
| | 00:57 | I'll just go just beyond that. There we go.
| | 01:04 | I will hit plus and we'll
call this one Snowboarding.
| | 01:09 | Now that we have all of our
navigation points set, we need to connect the
| | 01:11 | buttons to jump to these
particular navigation points.
| | 01:14 | So, we'll grab Intro, and we are going
to come over to Buttons, and On Release,
| | 01:18 | we are going to go to this video, which
happens to be explore_california, and the
| | 01:22 | option is going to be
Play from Navigation Point.
| | 01:24 | Navigation Point will be Intro,
and we'll repeat this again.
| | 01:28 | We'll go to Video, and we are
going to grab that Play from Navigation
| | 01:31 | Points, and we are going to go to
Bottles, and finally Snow Boarding.
| | 01:35 | We are going to go to the Video, to Navigation
Points, and we are going to go to Snowboarding.
| | 01:40 | Now, let's test our video.
| | 01:48 | (Music playing)
| | 01:51 | Let's press our buttons and see if they
jump to the correct spot in our video.
| | 01:54 | (Male speaker: Welcome to this week's ep--)
| | 01:57 | (Male speaker 2: Then from here, we bottle it.)
| | 01:59 | (Music playing)
| | 02:03 | So our buttons are working as expected.
| | 02:05 | Now, setting these navigation points
inside InDesign isn't that difficult,
| | 02:08 | but if I was to create a new InDesign
document and place this flash video file,
| | 02:12 | I would have to re-create all these
navigation points, and that will become pretty tedious.
| | 02:16 | So another method is to actually
encode the navigation points into the video
| | 02:20 | themselves, and we can do that
with the Adobe Media Encoder.
| | 02:24 | Inside the Adobe Media Encoder,
we can add our Flash video file.
| | 02:28 | Now if you have legacy files, you can also
use the Adobe Media Converter to convert them.
| | 02:32 | We'll talk about that in a later video.
| | 02:33 | We are going to hit the Add
button and we are going to grab
| | 02:36 | explore_california_podcast-start and we
are going to click the Settings button.
| | 02:43 | Inside, we can set our navigation points.
| | 02:45 | So we are going to set one
around 15 seconds for our Intro.
| | 02:48 | We'll add a new point,
and we'll call this Intro.
| | 02:53 | Now for the Type, I can
choose Event or Navigation.
| | 02:56 | Event is if you are dealing with
ActionScript in Flash, but since we are just
| | 02:59 | dealing with navigational
buttons we'll choose Navigation.
| | 03:02 | Once you click OK, it would start to
encode and then you would have a new Flash
| | 03:05 | video file that you could place inside
InDesign or Flash and you have access to
| | 03:09 | all of the cue points.
| | 03:10 | While it may seem tedious to set these
points in your videos, your audience will
| | 03:13 | appreciate the fact that they can
jump to specific areas in your video.
| | 03:16 | Personally, I prefer to set up my
navigation points via the Adobe Media Encoder
| | 03:20 | to prevent myself from having to re-
create them for every single project.
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| Placing a video from a URL| 00:00 | Adding interactivity to a document
can really add to its file size, but the
| | 00:04 | worst offender is video.
| | 00:05 | Even a short video can
substantially increase your file size.
| | 00:08 | To avoid increasing your document's
file size, you can link to a video online
| | 00:12 | instead of embedding it.
| | 00:13 | Normally, when we place a video, we
select the empty frame and go to File > Place,
| | 00:17 | but if we want to link to a
video online, we can use our Media panel.
| | 00:21 | So, if I select this empty frame, and
open the Media panel. There's a spot down
| | 00:25 | here for Place a video from a URL.
| | 00:27 | I already have a link over here on
our pasteboard, which I am just going to
| | 00:31 | select and copy to the clipboard.
| | 00:33 | Now that I have that copied, I am going
to select this frame and hit this little
| | 00:36 | button where I can paste in my URL.
| | 00:39 | I am going to click OK.
| | 00:40 | It's going to take a moment and you
do have to have an Internet connection.
| | 00:45 | When you have your Internet connection,
it's going to grab that video and place
| | 00:48 | it directly in here just like
we did a normal File > Place.
| | 00:51 | We have access to the rest
of the normal video controls.
| | 00:54 | We can scrub, we can pause,
play, do a Poster, Controller,
| | 00:58 | all of those things.
| | 00:59 | What we are going to do is we'll just
grab a current frame from around about
| | 01:02 | 15, 16 seconds or so.
| | 01:05 | We'll make that to be our current frame.
| | 01:06 | We'll add the Controller for our
SkinOverallNoCaption, Show Controller on
| | 01:11 | Rollover, and let's
preview to make sure it works.
| | 01:18 | (Music playing)
| | 01:22 | When we hit Play, it may take a moment,
depending on your Internet connection,
| | 01:25 | and the bandwidth from the host.
| | 01:27 | (Music playing)
| | 01:31 | But you'll be able to play
the video just like normal.
| | 01:33 | Now, when you do link to a URL, you have
to realize that it will work as long as
| | 01:38 | you have an Internet connection.
| | 01:39 | When you export to a PDF or SWF, your
file will now be substantially smaller
| | 01:43 | since the video itself will
not be embedded inside it.
| | 01:45 | But if you do not have Internet
connection, you won't be able to watch a video.
| | 01:49 | So that is a negative you need to be aware of.
| | 01:51 | Now if you do link to an online video,
keep in mind that it does have to be a
| | 01:54 | Flash video, and you have to have
access to the URL that's the video itself.
| | 01:57 | Just because you can see a video
online, doesn't mean you can link to it.
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| Creating URLs from hyperlinks| 00:00 | If you have a lot of URLs in your
layout that links to products on your
| | 00:04 | company's web site, you probably
would like them to actually work.
| | 00:06 | If you only have a few links, you can
always manually make them yourselves but
| | 00:10 | having InDesign create them
for you is a big timesaver.
| | 00:13 | To atomically create all of the URLs,
the hyperlinks we're going to come over to
| | 00:16 | the Hyperlink panel and go inside the
panel menu, and there is a new feature in
| | 00:20 | CS5 called Convert URLs to Hyperlinks.
| | 00:22 | When I select this, a dialog will
pop up and give me few options.
| | 00:27 | Now I can choose specifically
what area do I want to search from.
| | 00:30 | By default, it's the document, the entire thing.
| | 00:32 | But if I want I can come in here and
select more of the text and I can narrow
| | 00:35 | it down to just my selection or particular
the story if my cursor was sitting in a story.
| | 00:40 | For now we are going to stick with the document.
| | 00:41 | Now every link that I find I could apply
a character style to it if I like, such
| | 00:46 | as an underline or changing its color.
| | 00:48 | But for now I don't really want to do
that so I am going to leave that alone.
| | 00:51 | If I want to find one of my URLs, I can
click the Find button, and it will bring
| | 00:56 | me to the first URL inside the document
which happens to be at the bottom of the
| | 00:59 | first page for explorecalifornia.org.
| | 01:02 | If I want to convert just this one,
I can hit the Convert button and then
| | 01:05 | move onto the next one.
| | 01:06 | But I am going to convert them all
really quickly by hitting the Convert All
| | 01:09 | button and it lets me know that
I've converted seven of them.
| | 01:13 | I'm going to click OK and hit Done.
| | 01:15 | Now if I deselect I'm just going to hit
Command+Shift+A, Ctrl+Shift+A in the PC,
| | 01:20 | and I want them to take a look at some of these.
| | 01:22 | For Hyperlink 26 you can
see its explorecalifornia.org.
| | 01:25 | Then at 28 it's livingdesert.org and
if I want to know where this is in my
| | 01:29 | layout, I can select it and then
inside my panel menu choose Go to Source.
| | 01:35 | Now with this selected I'm going to zoom in.
| | 01:37 | So click Command+Plus or Ctrl+Plus
a few times zoom in on it and we see
| | 01:41 | it inside our layout.
| | 01:42 | If I want to change this to have it go
to maybe livingdesert.org/home, I could
| | 01:47 | type in here and change it
and it would update for the URL.
| | 01:50 | Now the text inside the layout itself
wouldn't update. It would be just be the URL.
| | 01:54 | But looking down a few more there is a
particular issue I want to pay attention to.
| | 01:58 | You can see hyperlink 29 says
www.california and hyperlink 30 has -wine.org,
| | 02:05 | which looks a little strange.
| | 02:06 | I am going to deselect and just click
off to the side over here and I'm going
| | 02:12 | to hyperlink 29 and say Go to Source.
| | 02:16 | When I do this, you're going to
see that the actual hyperlink is the
| | 02:20 | www.california-wine.org, and it did see that.
| | 02:25 | Unfortunately, one of the problems
with this feature is InDesign isn't smart
| | 02:29 | enough to be able to grab the
entire URL if there is a dash in it.
| | 02:33 | So if you do have a lot of URLs with dashes,
this feature isn't really going to be a big help.
| | 02:38 | It may help you find half of them,
but then you're going to have to
| | 02:40 | manually convert the rest.
| | 02:41 | So to convert this I'm going to select
california-wine.org and copy that to the clipboard.
| | 02:46 | I'm going to click on Hyperlink 29,
and I'm going to paste in the URL that I
| | 02:50 | copied and hit Enter.
| | 02:52 | Now that I've got that done
this hyperlink is working fine.
| | 02:55 | But I'm going to deselect, and I need to
get rid of number 30 because it doesn't
| | 02:59 | go anywhere and I don't want it.
| | 03:00 | So if I select this, I can go to
my panel menu and choose Delete
| | 03:04 | Hyperlink/Cross-Reference.
| | 03:06 | When I delete this it's going to say,
are you sure you want to do it, and I am like
| | 03:09 | Yes, I want to get rid of it, and now it's gone.
| | 03:12 | Now that I have my have my
hyperlinks finished, let's export this to an
| | 03:15 | interactive PDF so we can
test them to see how they work.
| | 03:18 | I am going to File > Export.
| | 03:20 | I am going to go to my Desktop,
and we are going to choose Adobe PDF
| | 03:25 | (Interactive), and we already got one
here I am just going to replace, and
| | 03:28 | we are going to make sure that we
view it after exporting and the rest of
| | 03:32 | the options are fine.
| | 03:33 | We will click OK. Take a
moment while it exports.
| | 03:37 | It's going to do its thing, and now
that it's open inside the Adobe Reader we
| | 03:42 | can take a look at it.
| | 03:43 | So in here we see all the pages and
if I mouse over, it will tell us with a little tooltip,
| | 03:47 | it just wants to
go to explorecalifornia.org.
| | 03:49 | When I click on this Acrobat is going
to give me a security warning, where it
| | 03:53 | just wants to make sure
that this is a safe web site.
| | 03:55 | I am going to allow it and will open up
its web browser and bring me to the web site.
| | 03:59 | While this feature is a welcome addition,
it's still a good idea to double-check
| | 04:03 | all of your links before
you publish your document.
| | 04:05 | If there happens to be a typo inside
your document the link will actually have a typo
| | 04:09 | and it won't go to the correct web site.
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10. Converting from InDesign to Flash ProfessionalPreparing your layout for Export| 00:00 | When you're ready to hand off your
layout to Flash Professional, you might be
| | 00:03 | tempted to just export it immediately.
| | 00:05 | But there are some things to check
for to ensure a smooth transition.
| | 00:08 | Just like when you are preparing for Print,
you need to check for certain problems.
| | 00:12 | But preparing for Flash has its own set
of circumstances that you need to adjust
| | 00:15 | before you can export reliably.
| | 00:17 | The first thing we need to do is
clean up our layout to remove any
| | 00:20 | unnecessary elements.
| | 00:21 | I'm going to zoom out to a bird's eye view
and remove anything extra on the baseboard.
| | 00:25 | For example, I don't really need
these text frames over here so I'm just
| | 00:28 | going to remove those.
| | 00:30 | Now with those gone, I can zoom back in
and the next step is to remove all of
| | 00:34 | the layers I am not using.
| | 00:35 | There is no content on a layer I
don't really need it, and it's going to be
| | 00:38 | unnecessary inside the Flash file.
| | 00:41 | So by going inside the Layers panel
menu, I can choose Delete Unused Layers.
| | 00:44 | The next step is color.
| | 00:46 | We want to be sure that we are working
in RGB, whereas the InDesign can go to
| | 00:49 | print and onscreen, Flash is web-only or on-
screen only which means it can only use RGB.
| | 00:56 | So I am going to open up my Swatches
panel and inside the Swatches panel I have
| | 01:00 | three different CMYK colors right now.
| | 01:02 | I am going to hold the Shift key and
grab all three of these, Right-click or
| | 01:05 | Ctrl+Click my mouse, and choose Swatch Options.
| | 01:08 | In here you are going to
see the Color mode is CMYK.
| | 01:10 | I am going to change that
to RGB and I'll click OK.
| | 01:13 | Now I've got my colors converted.
| | 01:16 | The next area is going to be our images.
| | 01:18 | We want to make sure all of for linked
images are going to be RGB instead of CMYK.
| | 01:22 | By going over to our Links panel, I can
check to make sure that they're all RGB
| | 01:27 | which it looks like they were.
| | 01:28 | But if one of these was CMYK, I could
select them and do an Edit Original and
| | 01:32 | bring it to Photoshop and convert it there.
| | 01:34 | Text wrap is another area of concern.
| | 01:36 | While InDesign handles text wrap
with no problem, Flash has no idea what
| | 01:40 | text wrap is and if you bring in an
InDesign file that has text wrap into
| | 01:43 | Flash Professional, it's going to pretend it
doesn't even exist, and it won't be pretty.
| | 01:47 | To fix this, we need to remove all of
the text wrap inside our layout or better
| | 01:51 | yet don't even design with it.
| | 01:52 | Well to ensure that there is no text wrap
in our layout I'm going to run a Find/Change.
| | 01:55 | I am going to hit Command+F on the
Mac or Ctrl+F on the PC to bring up
| | 01:59 | my Find/Change dialog.
| | 02:01 | I want to make sure I am in the
Object field and I am going to change the
| | 02:04 | Change Object Format.
| | 02:05 | I am going to click in there and go to Text
Wrap & Other and choose No Text Wrap and click OK.
| | 02:12 | So right now I'm going to say Find
Object Format is nothing. That means it's
| | 02:16 | going to find every single
frame in the entire layout.
| | 02:18 | I want to make sure my search is the
entire document and it's all of my frames,
| | 02:22 | and then I am going to
apply a No Text Wrap to it.
| | 02:24 | I'll hit a Change All, and it found 89
objects and removed text wrap on 89 objects.
| | 02:29 | We will click OK and click Done.
| | 02:32 | Now that we've finished our text wrap
we need to visually inspect our layout to
| | 02:35 | ensure that there are no unnecessary changes.
| | 02:37 | So by scrolling down the first page
looks good, second page looks good,
| | 02:41 | third spread, well...
| | 02:42 | It looks like we've got a
couple of Text Wrap problems.
| | 02:45 | It looks like this picture must've had
a text wrap on it that was bouncing the
| | 02:48 | text away from the edge.
| | 02:50 | Well we just going to have to
resize this and bring this up here.
| | 02:52 | Okay, that looks better.
| | 02:53 | Then move down to the next spread, and
we will select this frame, and we are
| | 02:58 | going to bring this one up here.
| | 02:59 | Okay that looks good. And then
finally the last frame. That one looks fine,
| | 03:03 | no problems at all.
| | 03:04 | Now we have got our text wrap finished.
| | 03:06 | Now there are few FLA transfer
issues that we need to be careful with.
| | 03:09 | There are some areas that we need to avoid.
| | 03:12 | One of them is Span and Split columns.
| | 03:14 | This is a wonderful new feature inside
InDesign, but it does not transfer to Flash.
| | 03:18 | If you're using this feature inside
InDesign, it will not appear inside Flash at all.
| | 03:23 | It will appear that you've never used it at all.
| | 03:25 | If you want the appearance of this,
you're going to have to go back to the CS4
| | 03:28 | and earlier days where you were
manually creating this effect.
| | 03:31 | If you're using Styles, which is
great, you should be using them.
| | 03:34 | Realize that they will no longer
update if you happen to make any changes.
| | 03:37 | For example, if you have a GREP
style that applies and attributes to just
| | 03:41 | color whenever you see URL, that will
no longer update if you had another URL
| | 03:46 | to the text inside Flash.
| | 03:47 | It has no comprehension
of those types of styles.
| | 03:49 | So however it is inside InDesign, its
how it will look inside Flash, regardless
| | 03:53 | of any changes that you happen to make.
| | 03:55 | Text on a path does not
necessarily transfer very well.
| | 03:57 | While you will get the appearance of
that inside Flash Professional, the text
| | 04:01 | does get rasterized.
| | 04:02 | Interactivity has another area of concern.
| | 04:04 | One of the biggest ones is Transparency.
| | 04:06 | If you put transparent items over your
buttons or your animations they will not
| | 04:11 | transfer inside Flash.
| | 04:13 | So be careful with this. You want
to use layers to make sure that your
| | 04:16 | interactive elements are above
everything else to ensure that there is no
| | 04:20 | unnecessary transparency
on top of your elements.
| | 04:22 | You also need to know that
your actions will not transfer.
| | 04:25 | So if you have a button to go to a
particular page or to hide or show a button
| | 04:29 | none of the actions will work in Flash.
That'll have to be developed by you or
| | 04:33 | your Flash developer inside Flash.
| | 04:35 | Finally, with media, if you have any
media such as video or audio placed
| | 04:39 | inside your InDesign layout, the
poster images will transfer into Flash, but
| | 04:43 | the links to them will not.
| | 04:45 | You are going to have to
relink them with Flash Professional.
| | 04:47 | Luckily, when you export to FLA,
a Resources folder will be created and all of
| | 04:51 | your media assets such as your MP3s and
FLV files will be in there ready to add
| | 04:56 | with Flash Professional.
| | 04:57 | If you are preparing your layout for
Flash export, it is important to remember
| | 05:01 | that this is a one-way exchange.
| | 05:02 | After handing your file over to Flash,
you will not be able up to receive it
| | 05:05 | again inside InDesign.
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| Handing off your InDesign layout to Flash| 00:00 | Once you have your file ready for
export, take a look at your export options.
| | 00:04 | We're going to go to File > Export.
| | 00:07 | We're going to make sure we choose
Flash Professional CS5, and we are going to
| | 00:11 | put this under desktop, and we will hit Save.
| | 00:13 | Inside our Export options
our first option are Pages.
| | 00:16 | We can choose a page range if we want to
narrow it down to just a few pages, but
| | 00:19 | we are going to choose all of our pages for now.
| | 00:21 | Underneath this we have
Rasterization and Flatten Transparency options.
| | 00:25 | To rasterize our pages, it's going to
effectively create a big bitmap of each page,
| | 00:28 | which is going to kind of break all
of the transparency in our layout so we
| | 00:32 | really don't need this.
| | 00:33 | Flattening our transparency will
create a more accurate appearance of our layout,
| | 00:36 | but it won't be nearly as editable.
| | 00:38 | For now we're not going to
choose either of these options.
| | 00:40 | For Size, we are going to keep it at
scale 100%, but we could make it larger or
| | 00:45 | smaller if we like.
| | 00:46 | But like I said in an earlier video we
want to design to the actual output size.
| | 00:50 | Since we did that from the beginning,
there's no need to change that here.
| | 00:53 | For interactivity and Media we can
choose to include everything or just the
| | 00:57 | appearance of everything.
| | 00:58 | Well since we went to the trouble of
building everything we'll include all of
| | 01:01 | the interactivity and media that we've created.
| | 01:04 | For Text we have a few different options.
| | 01:06 | We've got Flash Classic Text or Flash TLF Text.
| | 01:10 | We can also convert to Outlines or Pixels.
| | 01:12 | Flash TLF Text is probably the best option.
| | 01:15 | It supports all of the ligatures from
InDesign throughout a text, more text
| | 01:19 | attributes from InDesign
like OpenType font support.
| | 01:21 | It's going to give you the most
realistic best conversion from InDesign to Flash.
| | 01:26 | Flash Classic Text will be a smaller
file size, but it's the appearance isn't
| | 01:30 | going to transfer nearly as well.
| | 01:31 | We can also Convert to Outlines if
we want to have the exact appearance
| | 01:35 | transfer, but the text
will no longer be editable.
| | 01:37 | We could also convert everything to
pixels so everything becomes rasterized.
| | 01:40 | We are going to leave it at
Flash TLF Text engine for now.
| | 01:44 | We can also choose Insert Discretionary
Hyphenation Points, which means if there
| | 01:48 | are any hyphens inside your InDesign
layout when your export to Flash, it will
| | 01:52 | stay exactly the same way.
| | 01:53 | That's a good adoption leave on.
And finally for image handling we have an
| | 01:57 | option for Compression.
| | 01:58 | We can use JPEG, PNG, or Automatic.
| | 02:00 | JPEG is the default which I generally
leave it at, which is going to result in a
| | 02:04 | smaller file size, but the image will be
slightly worse looking than a PNG, which
| | 02:08 | is a larger file size, but it is a
lossless format which means it's going to
| | 02:11 | transfer much better.
| | 02:13 | Automatic will let InDesign
decide which it's going to transfer to.
| | 02:16 | JPEG is fine for most people.
| | 02:18 | For the quality of the JPEG, we will
leave it at High, but you could also choose
| | 02:21 | Medium, High, or Low or anything in
between if you need to, and for our
| | 02:24 | Resolution we will lead at 72 PPI
because that's what screen resolution is, and
| | 02:28 | now we will click OK to export our layout.
| | 02:30 | When we export, a warning dialog pops up
that says some transparency attributes
| | 02:34 | may not be preserved.
| | 02:36 | Well this is referring to the check
box that we could've chosen called
| | 02:38 | Flatten Transparency.
| | 02:39 | Well if we would Flatten Transparency,
it doesn't make our file nearly as edible.
| | 02:44 | This is just saying that hey!
| | 02:45 | Inside InDesign we may have made it
looked one way, but when we bring it to
| | 02:49 | Flash there may be a slight
difference with that. That's okay.
| | 02:51 | I usually prefer editability over appearance.
| | 02:54 | So we'll click OK to dismiss this
warning and now the file export to
| | 02:58 | Flash Professional.
| | 03:00 | Now that we'd exported our layout we're
ready to open it inside Flash CS5 Professional.
| | 03:04 | It's also a good idea to export a
working SWF to give to your developers so they
| | 03:08 | can see exactly how you
had your layout plan to work.
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| Opening the FLA file in Flash CS5 Professional| 00:00 | When you export a FLA file from
InDesign CS5 you'll need to open it with
| | 00:04 | Flash Professional CS5.
| | 00:06 | After opening our InDesign exported
FLA file inside Flash Professional our
| | 00:10 | layout looks just like it did inside InDesign.
| | 00:13 | Except for when I try to scroll down I
don't see any more of the layout; I only
| | 00:16 | see the first spread.
| | 00:17 | Instead, inside my Timeline I have
these little circles which stand for each frame
| | 00:21 | and each frame happens to
correspond to each spread inside InDesign.
| | 00:26 | So as I move over I'm able to see
all of the spreads inside Flash.
| | 00:30 | So if I come to the fourth frame, I can
see the fourth spread inside our layout
| | 00:34 | and everything looks pretty good.
| | 00:35 | But if I try to select
anything I just get one big selection.
| | 00:38 | Instead, I have to get down to the
individual assets, because everything is
| | 00:42 | essentially grouped.
| | 00:43 | To get down to the next item,
I'm going to double-click my mouse.
| | 00:46 | When I double-click you'll
see everything becomes alive.
| | 00:48 | I can select each of these frames and down
here I have all of the layers from InDesign.
| | 00:53 | Now if I want, I can select the text.
| | 00:55 | By double-clicking again, it switches
to my Type tool and I can see how well
| | 00:58 | all of my text is transferred.
| | 01:00 | By grabbing my regular
Selection tool, I can grab another item.
| | 01:04 | Over on the right-hand
side I have all these images.
| | 01:06 | Now you may be expecting these images
to be over on the spread right here.
| | 01:10 | Well the reason they are off to
the side is these are animated.
| | 01:13 | Inside the InDesign layout we had them
sliding in from their right-hand side.
| | 01:17 | Because they slide from the right
they have to start somewhere so they're
| | 01:20 | starting over on the baseboard.
| | 01:21 | If I double-click to select this image,
you will see the motion path where I can
| | 01:25 | see that it's going to end up right here.
| | 01:27 | In fact, inside my Timeline panel,
I can control the animation itself and see
| | 01:31 | exactly how it's going to start and end.
| | 01:32 | I am going to put this back to the first
frame and to go back to the spread I'll
| | 01:36 | just click on the Spread 7-8 button.
| | 01:38 | Inside my Library panel, I am able to
see all of my library items. These are all
| | 01:42 | of the elements from InDesign.
| | 01:44 | So if I click right here, here's this
image and here's the other image so that
| | 01:48 | you can see how well everything is transferred.
| | 01:50 | A button is transferred quite well too.
| | 01:52 | When I select this button and I double-click,
I can go and see the overstate and the upstate.
| | 01:58 | To go back, I'm just going to come and
click on the spread again and I'm going
| | 02:00 | to go back to the Main scene.
| | 02:02 | When I go to the second spread,
we'll see here's my movie.
| | 02:05 | But when I double-click and I get
to the movie, there is no movie file.
| | 02:09 | That's because InDesign does not
transfer the movie inside the exported FLA.
| | 02:14 | It just transfers the poster image.
| | 02:16 | The video file is inside our
resources file right next to FLA.
| | 02:19 | In a later video we'll learn how to
import the video into Flash Professional.
| | 02:23 | As you can see, your InDesign
layout transfers quite well into Flash.
| | 02:26 | Even if you don't plan an editing of the
Flash files yourself, it is a good idea
| | 02:30 | to explore how your
layout would look inside Flash.
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| Adding a stop command and testing the movie| 00:00 | After opening a FLA that was exported
from InDesign, we need to test the file to
| | 00:04 | see how well it works.
| | 00:06 | InDesign has a Preview panel, but
with Flash we need to test the movie.
| | 00:09 | Testing a movie is a quick
export in the background.
| | 00:11 | It is pretty much the same process as
using the preview panel inside in InDesign.
| | 00:15 | To test the movie inside Flash, we need to go
to the Control menu and go to Test Movie > Test.
| | 00:21 | We can also hit Command+Return on
the Mac or Ctrl+Enter on the PC.
| | 00:25 | When you test your movie for the
first time, you receive a warning about a
| | 00:28 | text language error.
| | 00:29 | Don't worry about this. The end user
will never see this and it just refers to
| | 00:33 | the fact that we're using
a brand-new text engine.
| | 00:35 | We are going to hit Don't show again,
and then click OK and we never going to
| | 00:38 | have to worry about this error.
| | 00:39 | As soon as we test the movie, the
screen is going to be flashing like crazy.
| | 00:44 | The current movie is just
playing like a quick flipbook,
| | 00:47 | flashing from slide to slide to slide.
| | 00:49 | This really is unusable to the end-user.
| | 00:51 | Right now, we can't stop it.
| | 00:53 | We have to add a Stop command.
| | 00:54 | We are to close this file, and
now we need to add a Stop command.
| | 00:58 | To add a Stop command, we
need to use some ActionScript.
| | 01:01 | Now the first time you hear the word
ActionScript you might get a little scared,
| | 01:04 | but don't worry. Using ActionScript is
very easy inside Flash Professional CS5.
| | 01:08 | What we need to do is come over to the
Code Snippet panel and inside the Code
| | 01:11 | Snippet panel to add a Stop
command is as simple as a double-click.
| | 01:15 | We need to go into the Timeline
Navigation folder, and we are going to go to
| | 01:18 | Stop at This Frame and double-click our mouse.
| | 01:20 | When we double-click our mouse the
Actions panel is going to pop up and put in
| | 01:24 | the Stop command for us.
| | 01:25 | You also notice that there's a brand-
new layer called Actions and there is a
| | 01:28 | tiny little 'a' right here.
| | 01:30 | This just means we've added an
ActionScript for this particular frame which
| | 01:34 | happens to be the Stop command.
| | 01:35 | We need to repeat this for every
single frame so I am going to jump to next
| | 01:39 | frame and repeat the process.
| | 01:40 | We'll just double-click.
| | 01:41 | We'll go the next frame, double-click,
fourth frame, double-click, and finally the
| | 01:49 | fifth frame we are going to double-click.
| | 01:52 | Now that we have this done,
we've written our ActionScript.
| | 01:54 | Let's test our movie one more time
and you'll see that it stopped.
| | 01:58 | We are looking at the first frame
and it's ready for interaction.
| | 02:01 | In fact, if we mouse over we even have
our button working, and it's ready to
| | 02:05 | show the preview of the next page.
| | 02:07 | Unfortunately, when we click
that portion isn't working it.
| | 02:09 | Adding a Stop command is often the
first step required when creating a Flash
| | 02:13 | document. Without it the
Flash movie would play endlessly.
| | 02:16 | Now that the Stop command has
been added it's possible to add more
| | 02:19 | interactivity, including
buttons, movies, and animations.
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| Fixing the buttons| 00:00 | When you create button actions inside
InDesign they do not transfer to Flash.
| | 00:03 | Their appearance in rollovers will be
present, but you've have to go through a
| | 00:06 | few extra steps in order
to make them work again.
| | 00:08 | Inside our Flash layout we need to
double-click inside the first spread to get in
| | 00:12 | here to be able to select the actual buttons.
| | 00:14 | I am going to grab the Next button and
what we have to do is give it a name.
| | 00:17 | I am going to come up here inside our
Properties tab and I'm going to give
| | 00:20 | the instance a name.
| | 00:21 | I'm going to call it next_btn
for next button and hit Enter.
| | 00:25 | Now that I've named this button, I need
to provide an ActionScript to be able
| | 00:28 | to tell it what to do.
| | 00:29 | I am going to come to the Code Snippets
panel and I'm going to open up Timeline
| | 00:32 | Navigation and then double-
click on Go to Frame and Stop.
| | 00:36 | When I double-click, the Actions panel
is going to pop open and we are going to
| | 00:40 | see it says gotoAndStop(5)).
| | 00:43 | Well that's great, but it doesn't
really help me right now because this is
| | 00:46 | telling me to go to the fifth frame
within this movie and if I close this panel,
| | 00:50 | you are going to see that I'm only in
one frame inside this particular movie.
| | 00:54 | What I need to do is have it go back to
the main scene to jump to the next spread.
| | 00:59 | So I need to modify these actions slightly.
| | 01:01 | I'm going to put my cursor in front
of here and I'm just going to type
| | 01:04 | in MovieClip(root).
| | 01:13 | And I can leave the gotoAndStop and
then just change this to a 2 because I want
| | 01:19 | this to go to the second spread.
| | 01:21 | Now that I've got this I'm going to
copy this to the clipboard. Because I'm
| | 01:24 | going to have to reuse this a few times,
I definitely don't want to have to retype that.
| | 01:27 | With that copied, let's preview the movie.
| | 01:31 | We can see that the movie
stopped. We're on the first spread.
| | 01:33 | Well I mouse over I've got
the preview for the next page.
| | 01:36 | I'll click the button.
| | 01:37 | It goes to the next page.
| | 01:38 | Now I want to go to the rest of these,
but I haven't made these work yet.
| | 01:41 | So let's close this and
program the rest of the buttons.
| | 01:44 | I want this button to the last
page so I am going to select this.
| | 01:47 | I am going to give it a give it an
instance of last_btn, hit Enter, go to my
| | 01:52 | Code Snippets panel.
| | 01:54 | I am going to double-click
on Go to this Frame and Stop.
| | 01:56 | I am going to put this code in here.
| | 01:58 | I need to paste in what I put before.
| | 02:00 | I just have to change this frame to 5
because this is going to be going to the
| | 02:04 | last frame in the movie because it's the last
spread, which happens to be five. I can close that.
| | 02:08 | Now we are going to go back and we are
going to go at the first scene so we can
| | 02:12 | go to the next spread and in next
spread I am going to double-click and I am
| | 02:16 | going to come in and grab this button,
which happens to be the previous button.
| | 02:19 | So I am just going to call it back_btn,
hit Enter, double-click and Go to Frame
| | 02:25 | and Stop, paste in, and this
is going to be the first frame.
| | 02:29 | We can close that and
we will repeat the process for this.
| | 02:33 | We will call this one first_btn,
double-click, and paste this in, and that's
| | 02:42 | going to be go to the first frame.
| | 02:44 | Now that we have this
finished, let's test our movie.
| | 02:48 | On the first page we can click to go to
the second spread, and then we can also
| | 02:51 | click to go back to the first spread.
| | 02:53 | We'd have to repeat this
process for the rest of our buttons.
| | 02:56 | This is just a small example of the
process used to create functional navigation
| | 02:59 | buttons inside Flash.
| | 03:01 | If you want to learn more about buttons
and actions, I recommend you watch the
| | 03:04 | Flash Professional CS5 Essential
Training by Todd Perkins on lynda.com.
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| Importing a video into Flash| 00:00 | When you place a video into InDesign
and export to Flash, it's not included
| | 00:03 | directly in the layout.
| | 00:04 | Instead, there is a
placeholder image in its place.
| | 00:07 | But the video itself is located in a
resources folder next to the FLA file.
| | 00:11 | So in our layout, we are going to
have to come to the second spread.
| | 00:14 | So let's go to next keyframe here and we are
going to double-click in to get to the spread.
| | 00:18 | Now before we bring in the video,
we're going to have to delete the poster image
| | 00:22 | because we don't really need this anymore.
| | 00:23 | But to ensure that the video lines up
perfectly where the poster image is,
| | 00:27 | we have to put some guides out with the rulers.
| | 00:29 | We're going to go to View > Rulers and
over here we are just going to grab that
| | 00:33 | little guide and just kind of drag him
over here, and that looks pretty good
| | 00:36 | there, and we'll come to the
top and bring this one down.
| | 00:39 | Now that we've got those down we can delete
the poster image and we no longer need it.
| | 00:44 | To bring in the video, we're going to
go to File > Import > Import Video and
| | 00:49 | inside this dialog box, we are going to
hit the little Browse button and we are
| | 00:52 | going to go into the FLA
Resources folder and grab that f4v file.
| | 00:56 | We are not going to have to worry
about the rest of these options.
| | 00:58 | We'll just hit Continue and we
will hit Continue again and Finish.
| | 01:02 | Now when we get our video file it's
going to come in here and we're just going
| | 01:05 | to move this over and line up with
the guides that we created earlier.
| | 01:08 | Now that the video is in here, there are a
few options that we are going to have to change.
| | 01:12 | So over in the Properties panel we're
going to turn off autoPlay, because we
| | 01:15 | don't need the video to play
immediately when the video becomes visible.
| | 01:18 | But we are going to turn on
skinAutoHide, which will hide the play head skin.
| | 01:23 | So we don't have to be seeing
this while we are playing the video.
| | 01:25 | Now I have this finished let's test the movie.
| | 01:28 | We can go to the next page and
we can hit Play to start the video.
| | 01:32 | (Music playing)
| | 01:36 | Importing a video into Flash is very
similar to placing a video inside InDesign.
| | 01:40 | Keep in mind that if you've ever moved
to FLA, you will want to relink the video
| | 01:44 | via the Properties panel.
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| Editing the animations| 00:00 | InDesign's handling of animation is
not nearly as robust as Flash, but the
| | 00:04 | animations that InDesign can
produce do transfer quite well.
| | 00:07 | Right now, we are looking at an
exported SWF InDesign and we want to find out
| | 00:11 | where some of the animations are occurring.
| | 00:12 | If I go to the last spread, you are
going to see we have a series of animations
| | 00:16 | of these snowboarders kind
of sliding in from the edge.
| | 00:18 | So let's jump over to Flash, and
inside Flash we are going to move playhead
| | 00:22 | scrub over to the last frame
where we can see the last spread.
| | 00:25 | Now what I want to do is modify
some of these animations to make them a
| | 00:28 | little more complicated.
| | 00:29 | I am going to double-click to go into
the spread and I am going to click again
| | 00:32 | to select this red snowboarder.
| | 00:34 | When I double-click on him, I am going
to be able to see the actual motion path.
| | 00:37 | If I play with the scrub head, you can see
he slides over time to his final position.
| | 00:41 | Well if I want to modify this,
| | 00:43 | when I mouse over the motion path,
my cursor changes to show a little curve,
| | 00:47 | which means I can click
and drag and bend this path.
| | 00:50 | Now, if I play with the scrub head, you
can see he slides in as a slight curve.
| | 00:55 | Now if I want to modify this further,
if I select this motion path, I can go to
| | 00:59 | a new panel called the Motion Editor.
| | 01:01 | Inside the Motion Editor I have a
series of controls that will let me add
| | 01:05 | complicated properties to the motion itself.
| | 01:08 | Down here I am going to come to Skew X, and
I am going to changes its value from 0 to 70.
| | 01:12 | When I do this, you'll see
the image skews to 70 degrees.
| | 01:16 | If I change the playhead, you can see
it stays the same throughout the duration
| | 01:20 | of the entire animation.
| | 01:21 | What I want to do is move this playhead
to the end and I am going to come here
| | 01:25 | and add a little diamond
which is called a keyframe.
| | 01:27 | When I click on this, I am going to set
this at 0, which means the last frame is
| | 01:31 | going to set him back to being a normal image.
| | 01:34 | Now over time, he'll slowly fade
from being skewed to being normal.
| | 01:38 | We are going back to our
timeline and on the last frame,
| | 01:41 | I am going to add a Stop command,
because I want this animation to stop.
| | 01:45 | So I'll double-click on Stop at This
Frame, and now I have a Stop command.
| | 01:49 | Now I know that there are series of
animations on this page. I need to add stop
| | 01:53 | commands in each of those. Otherwise
those animations will play endlessly.
| | 01:56 | So I am going back to this spread, and I am
going to double-click to select this animation.
| | 02:00 | I am going to slide all the way over,
go to my Code Snippets, and double-click
| | 02:04 | on Stop at This Frame.
| | 02:05 | Then I'll repeat this
process for the other animations.
| | 02:08 | I have got this guy.
| | 02:08 | I'll drag him over, double-click and
stop this frame, and then the last one is a
| | 02:15 | kind of hidden. Inside this exported SWF,
| | 02:18 | we saw those tiny
snowboards slide in from up here.
| | 02:21 | If I click over here, you
can see it's kind of hidden.
| | 02:24 | The reason it's hidden is it started
out transparent and slowly faded in.
| | 02:27 | That's why I want to look at the
exported SWF, so I know that I saw an
| | 02:30 | animation up there.
| | 02:31 | I'll double-click and select this one.
| | 02:33 | I can drag it over to the end and
then I'll add a Stop at This Frame.
| | 02:37 | Now that I have this
finished, we can test our movie.
| | 02:43 | We can jump to last frame.
| | 02:44 | You are going to find yourself making more
complicated animations with motion editor.
| | 02:50 | Don't forget that you can share these
animations between Flash and InDesign.
| | 02:53 | For more information on sharing these
animations, watch the video on motion
| | 02:57 | presets in the next chapter.
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| Publishing a SWF| 00:00 | Now that we have made all of the
necessary edits to our file, we will need to
| | 00:03 | publish it into a SWF, so it
could be deployed on the web.
| | 00:06 | With all the changes finished in our layout,
we are going into File > Publish Settings.
| | 00:12 | Inside Publish Settings, we can
choose the directory that the Flash and
| | 00:15 | HTML file will go to.
| | 00:17 | I am going to click on the little
folder over here, and I am going to choose my
| | 00:20 | Desktop for the SWF.
| | 00:22 | I am going to choose
the Desktop for my HTML file.
| | 00:25 | We can also produce static images for the
layout, but we don't need to do that right now.
| | 00:30 | We do have the option to create stand-
alone projectors for the Mac and Windows.
| | 00:33 | This means someone will be able to run
this movie without having to have the
| | 00:36 | Flash Player installed.
| | 00:37 | Inside the Flash tab, I'll leave the
player at Flash Player 10, because we are
| | 00:42 | going to be using the Flash TLF
engine, and we don't have to worry about
| | 00:45 | anything inside HTML tab.
| | 00:48 | Back in Formats, now that we are ready to
publish, we want to hit the Publish button.
| | 00:52 | If we click OK,
we wouldn't have published anything.
| | 00:55 | We'll click Publish and we will
publish everything to our desktop, and on our
| | 00:59 | desktop we can double-click
on the publishing.html file.
| | 01:02 | Now inside our web browser you can
take a look at the finished product.
| | 01:06 | We have the Rollover button
that goes to the next page.
| | 01:11 | We have our movie.
| | 01:12 | (Music playing)
| | 01:16 | Each page has its animations,
and they seem to stop on every page.
| | 01:23 | If your layout needs more interactivity
or the file size is too large, this is
| | 01:26 | when you would pass along
your Flash assets to a Developer.
| | 01:28 | By learning the basics of Flash you
can get a sense of what a Flash developer
| | 01:32 | will be doing as they finish your document.
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11. Production Tips for Going from InDesign to FlashAvoiding legacy media| 00:00 | As you know, photos can be of
different file types, like JPEG, TIF, or PSD.
| | 00:04 | Video and audio can be of a
variety of formats as well.
| | 00:06 | To ensure smooth transition in your
interactive documents, you want to be sure that
| | 00:09 | your media is in the right format
before you import it into InDesign.
| | 00:13 | Looking at this chart, you can
see we have three different columns.
| | 00:15 | We have got the QuickTime legacy Media column,
the Flash Media, and the Acrobat 9 support column.
| | 00:21 | Though the QuickTime legacy media format
is supported by Acrobat and the Flash Media
| | 00:25 | is supported by Acrobat,
| | 00:26 | Acrobat supports all of the formats,
whereas Flash only supports the Flash formats.
| | 00:31 | It doesn't support the legacy.
| | 00:32 | If you need to convert your legacy
video files into Flash-based media, you need
| | 00:36 | to convert it with the Adobe Media Encoder.
| | 00:38 | To learn more about converting your
video using the Adobe Media Encoder, watch
| | 00:42 | the next lesson in this chapter.
| | 00:44 | To convert your Audio files from
.aiff or .wave to .mp3, you can use the
| | 00:49 | free iTunes application.
| | 00:50 | As you can see from this chart, Flash-
based media is supported by both the Flash
| | 00:54 | Player and Acrobat 9.
| | 00:56 | Therefore, it's safest to use Flash-
based media, regardless if you're exporting
| | 01:00 | to Acrobat or to Flash.
| | 01:02 | Knowing the correct file types of
media to use with InDesign allows you to
| | 01:05 | convert your media to the correct
format from the beginning, rather than having
| | 01:09 | to worry about changing your format later on.
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| Converting a video into FLV with Adobe Media Encoder| 00:00 | If you have legacy video that you
need to use in your layout, it's highly
| | 00:03 | recommended that you convert your video
with the Adobe Media Encoder before you
| | 00:06 | place it inside InDesign.
| | 00:09 | The Adobe Media Encoder is
installed with Adobe InDesign CS5.
| | 00:12 | It lets you convert your video from
legacy formats like MOV and AVI to Flash
| | 00:16 | video. You can also batch
convert many files at once.
| | 00:20 | To convert a video, we're first going
to hit the Add button and we're going to
| | 00:23 | browse, and we're going to select this legacy-
video.mov file and we're going to click Open.
| | 00:28 | When it gets added, we can choose what
format and preset we want to convert with.
| | 00:31 | The format that we want to use is FLV
and F4V, which are the Flash video formats.
| | 00:36 | The preset will determine how
large and the quality that it is.
| | 00:40 | We can leave it at the default,
Match Source Attributes (High Quality).
| | 00:43 | By clicking the Settings button,
we can control the settings further.
| | 00:48 | In the Export Settings dialog, we can
control various aspects of the video itself.
| | 00:52 | We can trim the video if there is
small portion we want to remove at
| | 00:55 | the beginning or end.
| | 00:56 | We could add navigation cue points,
and we could even come in and add a small
| | 01:00 | Gaussian blur if the video is a little jagged.
| | 01:03 | In the Video tab, we can
see an Estimated File Size.
| | 01:06 | So currently this file will be 13
megabytes when we're finished encoding it.
| | 01:09 | If we want to make the file size smaller,
we could always resize the video, to
| | 01:13 | make the actual pixels smaller which in
turn would lower its actual file size.
| | 01:19 | Once you're done with your export
settings, we can click OK and we're ready
| | 01:22 | to convert our video.
| | 01:23 | We'll click the Start Queue button,
and the video will begin to convert.
| | 01:30 | If you have a lot of videos in your
queue or your videos are quite large or if
| | 01:33 | your computer is a little
slow, this may take a while.
| | 01:35 | I recommend that you get in the habit of
converting your videos whenever you receive them.
| | 01:40 | This way you're always ready
to use them in your projects.
| | 01:43 | There is nothing worse than being in a
tight deadline when you realize that you
| | 01:46 | have to convert a bunch of videos.
| | 01:47 | If you convert them before you design,
you're going to always be ready with your media.
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| Using the JPG Pass-Through filter| 00:00 | When you're exporting your layouts to
SWF or FLA, InDesign assumes that you have
| | 00:04 | to have your images at 72 PPI.
| | 00:07 | If your images are above this resolution,
InDesign will downsample them to 72
| | 00:10 | PPI for you when you export.
| | 00:13 | While this is helpful, Photoshop can do a
much better job of compression on your images.
| | 00:17 | Looking at our layout I have an image
placed twice. On the left-hand side it is
| | 00:21 | placed at 25%, and our right-
hand side it's placed at 100%.
| | 00:26 | Let's take a look at this
if this was exported to SWF.
| | 00:29 | In the SWF file, it might be hard for
you to see, but the one on the left looks
| | 00:32 | a little softer than the one on the right.
| | 00:34 | The reason is the image on the right
was placed at 100%, and it took advantage
| | 00:40 | of an undocumented feature inside
InDesign called the JPEG Pass-Through filter.
| | 00:44 | What that means is if an image is
placed at 100% inside the InDesign layout,
| | 00:48 | it will be passed through to a
SWF or FLA file untouched.
| | 00:51 | InDesign won't touch it at all,
whereas the image on the left is a little
| | 00:55 | softer, because InDesign had a
downsampled it, whereas Photoshop has a stronger
| | 00:59 | downsampling capabilities.
| | 01:01 | Let's go back to InDesign.
| | 01:03 | Now, if we want them ensure that our
images are sharp as possible upon export,
| | 01:07 | we want to have all of our images
placed at 100% inside of InDesign layout.
| | 01:12 | Now that might be a lofty goal, but
it's not realistic to expect designers to
| | 01:15 | have their images always at 100% in
their layouts, because sometimes you have to
| | 01:19 | scale them up or down
accordingly to figure your design.
| | 01:21 | We're going to use a technique to ensure
that our images are at 100%, regardless
| | 01:26 | if we have them scaled up or down.
| | 01:27 | The image on the left is at 25%.
| | 01:29 | But in case you didn't know it was at 25%,
| | 01:31 | I'm going to select the image and
double-click my mouse to select it.
| | 01:35 | Now, I can see in the scale
percentage dialog that it is at 25%.
| | 01:38 | I need to edit this file using Photoshop.
| | 01:41 | So I am going to go over to my Links
panel and go on the panel menu and choose
| | 01:45 | Edit With > Photoshop CS5.
| | 01:49 | Inside Photoshop I'm going to go to
Image > Image Size and I'm going to change
| | 01:53 | its Pixel Dimensions from pixels to percent.
| | 01:57 | Now I'm going to type in 25, because I
know that I want to scale it down to 25%
| | 02:01 | of its current size.
| | 02:03 | For the Resample method I want to
choose Bicubic Sharper, because that's best
| | 02:06 | for reduction, and I'll click OK.
| | 02:09 | Now that I've resampled it,
I'm going to hit Save.
| | 02:13 | Back in InDesign the image will have updated.
| | 02:15 | Now when we would export to SWF or FLA,
the image would pass through perfectly,
| | 02:19 | and we wouldn't have to
worry about it being softer.
| | 02:22 | If you really care about the quality of
your images, be sure to use Photoshop to
| | 02:25 | downsample your images so
they're placed in your layout at 100%.
| | 02:28 | This will ensure that they're
untouched when you export to Flash.
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| Avoiding compatibility issues| 00:00 | Moving your layout from InDesign to
Flash may seem as simple as an export, but
| | 00:04 | there are some issues that need to
be aware of to avoid some problems.
| | 00:07 | One of the first problems we're going
to avoid are using PDF only actions.
| | 00:11 | In this layout I have a button over here,
and if I select this and I go to the
| | 00:14 | Button panel, you can see there
is an attribute called View Zoom.
| | 00:17 | Well, that action happens
to be a PDF Only action.
| | 00:21 | And that means if I would export this
to a SWF file, the button would still
| | 00:24 | work in the sense that you can mouse over
and it would show its appearance, but
| | 00:29 | it wouldn't do anything,
because it was a PDF Only action.
| | 00:32 | Flash has no idea what View Zoom does.
| | 00:36 | To avoid this problem, I recommend you
put PDF Only buttons on their own layer.
| | 00:40 | I happen have them on the
layer called PDF Navigation.
| | 00:43 | This way I can disable this layer and
then when I export to SWF or FLA, I don't
| | 00:47 | have to worry about them being included.
| | 00:49 | Another problem with legacy media.
| | 00:51 | In our early video we
discuss some of their problems.
| | 00:53 | You really should be using
only Flash video in your layouts.
| | 00:56 | Now, if you do use a Flash video file
and you export to FLA, there will be a
| | 00:59 | poster image that sits there.
| | 01:01 | When you open the file inside Flash,
you'll see just the static poster image.
| | 01:05 | If you want to replace it with the
actual file itself, there will be a resources
| | 01:08 | folder where the Flash video file resides.
| | 01:11 | If there are any hyperlinks in your
layouts such as explorecalifornia.org at the
| | 01:15 | bottom, when you export to SWF
they'll be functional, but when you export to
| | 01:18 | FLA, you'd expect them to work.
| | 01:20 | And from my experience it's been touch and
go. Sometimes it has, sometimes it hasn't.
| | 01:24 | I don't really know exactly why
that is, but you should be aware of
| | 01:27 | that possible problem.
| | 01:29 | If you've lot of images in your
layout, they will add to your file size.
| | 01:32 | Repeating images will add substantial more.
| | 01:34 | In a later video we'll learn
how discuss with repeating images.
| | 01:38 | If you're using transparency in your
layouts, you want to avoid putting above
| | 01:41 | any interactive elements, such as buttons.
| | 01:43 | In this layout I've placed a
transparent box above this button.
| | 01:47 | Upon export to a SWF file, you can see
what happens. The button no longer works.
| | 01:52 | To avoid this problem, we want to use
layers inside our InDesign layout.
| | 01:55 | By putting our buttons on their own
layers, we can avoid this problem.
| | 01:59 | Transparency Blend Space is
another issue that we need to address.
| | 02:03 | Inside the Edit menu at the bottom,
we have Transparency Blend Space.
| | 02:06 | There is Document RGB and CMYK.
| | 02:09 | RGB is what we should be using for our
layout, because this will be viewed on screen.
| | 02:13 | In fact, if you left it at CMYK, InDesign
would warn you before you export it to SWF or FLA.
| | 02:18 | Finally, if we're going to be using any
layers that we happen to hide, when we
| | 02:22 | package our document, we want to make
sure that information is included.
| | 02:25 | By going to the File > Package menu and we
package our document, we can save this file.
| | 02:31 | We'll click Continue.
| | 02:33 | There is an option called
Include Fonts and Links From Hidden and
| | 02:35 | Non-printing Content.
| | 02:37 | This means if we were to package a
file and we had a link on this particular
| | 02:40 | layer, this wouldn't be included, but
when we turn this check box on, then it
| | 02:44 | would be included when we package.
| | 02:46 | This is something in the past they were
really never worried about, because in
| | 02:49 | most of my documents I had all the
layers on, but with interactive documents
| | 02:52 | and presentations, I happen to use a lot of
layers and I turn them on and off frequently.
| | 02:56 | By turning this on, I don't have to
worry about forgetting any of my information.
| | 03:00 | If you keep these tips in mind when
you're creating your documents, your
| | 03:03 | transition from InDesign to
Flash will be that much smoother.
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| Slimming down your FLA| 00:00 | When you design for print, file size
doesn't matter as much since you can always
| | 00:04 | deliver your final asset to
the printer on a CD or DVD.
| | 00:07 | When distributing your content via the
web it's very important to keep your file
| | 00:10 | size small whenever possible.
| | 00:12 | One way to keep our file size small is
to be placing our assets in our layout
| | 00:16 | instead of copying and pasting.
| | 00:17 | If we will take a look at this
Illustrator file, you can see that there are lots
| | 00:21 | of points inside it.
| | 00:22 | If I would copy and paste this into
InDesign, yes, it will look fine, but when
| | 00:27 | you would export it to Flash, there
will be a lot of points and it would
| | 00:29 | dramatically increase the file size.
| | 00:31 | So instead of copying and pasting,
we are going to place this asset in.
| | 00:34 | So we are going to go to
File > Place and grab graphic.
| | 00:37 | Now that we have placed this asset
in here, when we would export to Flash
| | 00:42 | Professional or a SWF file, the file
size would be dramatically smaller.
| | 00:46 | In fact, let's take look at these file sizes.
| | 00:50 | Inside the Finder, I have a copy and
paste version of the FLA export and a SWF
| | 00:55 | version of it, as well as
a placed version of each.
| | 00:58 | The copy and paste FLA file is
1.9 MB or where as the placed is only 201.
| | 01:03 | That's dramatically smaller.
| | 01:05 | The same thing with the SWF file.
| | 01:07 | The copy and paste is 344,
and the placed SWF is 225.
| | 01:11 | This size does get dramatically smaller.
| | 01:14 | So that's why you should be placing your
assets instead of copying and pasting them.
| | 01:18 | Another way to reduce file size is to
use master pages for repeating elements.
| | 01:22 | Let's go back into InDesign and inside
InDesign we are going to go to the master page.
| | 01:27 | On the master page I am going to place
this graphic, and now it's going to show up
| | 01:33 | on the remaining pages.
| | 01:34 | By placing on a master page, this will
only count once in the exported file
| | 01:39 | whereas if I will copy and paste it at every
single page, it would show up as four times.
| | 01:43 | Just be aware if I go to the page and I
override it by pressing Command+Shift
| | 01:46 | on the Mac or Ctrl+Shift on the
PC, this counts as a new item.
| | 01:50 | So if you do happen to override
anything, it will increase your file size.
| | 01:54 | So if you don't have to
override them, please don't do that.
| | 01:56 | The final method to decrease
our file size is when we export to
| | 02:00 | Flash Professional.
| | 02:01 | When we go to File > Export and
we choose Flash Professional FLA,
| | 02:04 | we have an option for the Image Handling.
| | 02:06 | By choosing JPEG, it will ensure that
our file size is as small as possible.
| | 02:10 | While PNG may look nicer, it
does increase your file size.
| | 02:14 | To get the best of both worlds,
we can take advantage of the JPEG
| | 02:17 | Pass-Through filter.
| | 02:18 | This feature takes advantage of the
fact that when our images are placed at
| | 02:21 | 100%, they are exported to Flash
without having InDesign touched them.
| | 02:25 | To learn more about this feature, you
can watch an earlier video in this chapter.
| | 02:28 | By following these techniques,
your inactive document may result in a
| | 02:31 | dramatically smaller file size.
| | 02:33 | A developer can accomplish further file
size reduction by utilizing ActionScript
| | 02:38 | and other optimization
techniques in Flash Professional.
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| Sharing motion presets| 00:00 | Motion presets are a great way to
simplify the animation of an object and it's
| | 00:04 | possible to share your motion
presets between InDesign and Flash.
| | 00:07 | Since Flash has more animation
controls, you can bring your simple
| | 00:10 | animation into Flash,
| | 00:12 | make some adjustments and export
the motion presets back to in design.
| | 00:16 | Inside InDesign we're going to
create a simple animation with a star.
| | 00:19 | I'm going to select the star and go
over to my Animation panel and add
| | 00:23 | the preset Move Right.
| | 00:27 | If we want to preview this, we can
open up the Preview panel and we'll see it's
| | 00:30 | doing a simple move to the right.
| | 00:31 | Let's export this to Flash Professional.
| | 00:33 | We're going to go to File > Export and
choose Flash CS4 Professional, and we
| | 00:40 | will put this on our desktop.
| | 00:40 | We leave all the controls
the same and we'll click OK.
| | 00:46 | And we'll jump to Flash.
| | 00:47 | Now that I have the exported
FLA from InDesign open inside the Flash,
| | 00:51 | let's take a look at the animation.
| | 00:53 | I'm going to the Spread and
double-click to select the star.
| | 00:57 | When I double-click again,
I can see the motion path.
| | 00:59 | When I select the path and I go down to
that the panel called the Motion Editor,
| | 01:03 | I have a lot more controls.
| | 01:05 | I'm going to resize this panel so
we can see more of the controls.
| | 01:08 | Now I'm going to come down to Alpha.
| | 01:10 | Right now, I'm on the first frame,
which means we see all of the image.
| | 01:13 | I want to create a blinking effect for
the star by lowering the Alpha amount.
| | 01:19 | Right now, the Alpha amount is at
100%, which means we see all of the star.
| | 01:22 | I'm going to move the playhead to the fifth frame,
and I'm going to add a keyframe by clicking here.
| | 01:27 | A keyframe just means something is
going to change at this particular frame.
| | 01:31 | What we're going to change is the Alpha
amount and we're going to drag this all
| | 01:34 | the way down to zero to make the star disappear.
| | 01:36 | We are then going to move to the 10th frame,
and we're going to increase this back to 100%.
| | 01:40 | On the 15th frame we will lower this
back to zero and on the 20th frame we
| | 01:47 | put it back at 100%.
| | 01:49 | And then on the final frame, the 25th
frame, we will put it back at zero again.
| | 01:53 | Now let's test this movie and see what happens.
| | 01:58 | You can see we have the star
doing a little blink across the sky.
| | 02:05 | If I want to share this with InDesign,
I need to export it as a motion preset.
| | 02:09 | Let's close this panel.
| | 02:10 | I'm going to the Motion Presets panel
by going to to Window > Motion Presets.
| | 02:14 | To make a new motion preset,
I'm going to hit the new button.
| | 02:17 | I'm going to call this move
and blink, and I'll click OK.
| | 02:24 | Now that I have made this motion preset
I need to share this with InDesign.
| | 02:27 | By selecting this motion preset I'll go
into the panel menu and choose Export.
| | 02:31 | I'm going to put this on my desktop,
and it's going to have the name move and
| | 02:35 | blink.xml, and I'll click Save.
| | 02:38 | Now back in side InDesign I
need to open up my Animation panel.
| | 02:41 | Inside the Animation panel I'll go inside
the panel menu and choose Manage Presets.
| | 02:46 | In here I'll hit Load and now on my
desktop I'm going to select move and blink.xml.
| | 02:53 | Now that I've this added, I can hit
Done, and then I can apply this preset to
| | 02:56 | the animation. Now it looks the same
and I don't get a preview, but if I open
| | 03:01 | up the Preview panel I can
see the animation happening.
| | 03:07 | To make this a more appealing animation,
I'm going to increase its duration to
| | 03:11 | a few more seconds.
| | 03:15 | And I'm going to loop it, have it
start off of the page, select that path and
| | 03:21 | have it go all the way across the page.
| | 03:23 | Now let's preview this.
| | 03:24 | Now you can see that we have the star
animating all the way across the page and blinking.
| | 03:32 | Sharing motion presets is a great way
for a Flash developer to create a complex
| | 03:36 | animation in Flash and share
it with you inside InDesign.
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| Testing hyperlinks in a SWF| 00:00 | As you design interactive documents,
you will probably end up using hyperlinks.
| | 00:04 | Unfortunately, you may come across a
security warning when you try to test these
| | 00:07 | links in your browser.
| | 00:09 | Inside our layout, I have a link to lynda.com.
| | 00:12 | Let's preview this inside the Preview panel.
| | 00:14 | When I click on the link,
it will work as expected.
| | 00:17 | Opens up my web browser and
brings me to our web site.
| | 00:22 | Back inside of InDesign,
let's export this to a SWF.
| | 00:25 | I am going to go to File > Export, and go
on my desktop, and choose the Flash Player.
| | 00:29 | I want to export the SWF file plus an HTML
file and I want to view it after exporting.
| | 00:34 | I will click OK.
| | 00:35 | Inside my browser, everything looks great.
| | 00:39 | But when I try to click on the link, I am
going to receive a Flash security warning.
| | 00:43 | This Flash security warning is
telling me that this link may be unsafe.
| | 00:46 | Well, I know this link is fine,
because I just created it.
| | 00:50 | If I would click the OK button, it
wouldn't bring me to the web site. In fact,
| | 00:53 | if I try to click on the link again,
it would block me all together.
| | 00:56 | So if we want to control this,
we have a few different options.
| | 00:59 | Our first option is to
click the Settings button.
| | 01:02 | When you click on Settings, it'll bring
you to a Macromedia web site deep inside
| | 01:05 | Adobe's web site, which is pretty confusing.
| | 01:08 | On side of this page, there is a
spot to manage our trust locations.
| | 01:11 | I am going to add a location.
| | 01:13 | Inside this location, I am going to
browse for folder and on my desktop, I am
| | 01:18 | going to make another folder
that is called Testing_folder.
| | 01:23 | When I click Open, it's going to say that
this folder is a safe place on my computer.
| | 01:28 | That means any SWF files that I place in
here, I can test them without having to
| | 01:31 | worry about that security setting.
| | 01:33 | While this method does work, it is a pain.
| | 01:36 | There is a better way to do this in my opinion.
| | 01:38 | Rather than dealing with these
security settings, if I just put my SWF and
| | 01:42 | HTML files on a web server, I can test them
without having to worry about any of these problems.
| | 01:47 | While these security warnings can be
annoying, there are a few workarounds that
| | 01:51 | you can do to avoid this in the future.
| | 01:52 | But most important of all, your
clients will never have to deal with any
| | 01:55 | of these warnings.
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ConclusionFurther Recommendations| 00:00 | Congratulations on finishing InDesign CS5:
Interactive Documents and Presentations!
| | 00:05 | Hopefully, you now have a better
understanding of InDesign's interactive
| | 00:08 | features and are well on your way to
utilize your print design skills in a new medium.
| | 00:13 | If you want to further develop your
Flash skill set, I would recommend that you
| | 00:16 | watch Todd Perkins' Flash CS5
Essential Training or if you want to learn to
| | 00:20 | create your own web site, take a look
at Paul Trani's Creating a First Web Site
| | 00:24 | with Flash Professional CS5.
| | 00:26 | For more tips and tricks and to read
the latest news on InDesign, please visit
| | 00:29 | indesignsecrets.com. I'm James Fritz.
| | 00:33 | Thanks for learning!
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