From the course: InDesign Secrets

215 Making a print PDF do double-duty as an online PDF - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

215 Making a print PDF do double-duty as an online PDF

- InDesign has two ways to create a PDF. One, you can export it for print, by going to File, Adobe PDF Presets and choosing one of these, these are all print presets, or you can go to Export and also choose Adobe PDF (Print), or you can choose Adobe PDF (Interactive) If we choose Adobe PDF (Interactive), we get one dialog box and it includes any interactive features that are in this document, like buttons and slideshows and links and all that kind of fun stuff, but it is missing a whole lot of the other options that we get in exporting to a Print PDF. Let me remind you that when you export to a Print PDF, like right here, you have a lot of options for what happens with your images when they get exported, what happens with the output. You can add security, all sorts of fun stuff. I want to tell you that there is a way to create a PDF that does both. You can create what David calls a hybrid PDF. I call it a dual-purpose PDF. It's what I usually do. If I want to create a PDF to put on my website or a client's website for readers to download and open up in Acrobat or Reader or on their mobile device to read, unless I'm doing something with all sorts of fun, interactive features, I'm probably going to export for Print, but turn on a few options that still include some interactivity. For example, you can export a PDF to Print and still include hyperlinks so that when somebody taps on the link and Reader or Acrobat or some mobile device PDF reader, that it will still work. If you have bookmarks, like in this document, I have created bookmarks, and I want the bookmarks to automatically become PDF bookmarks, in the Bookmarks panel, I can do that too even though I'm exporting to a Print PDF. And if you have CC 2015, then Adobe added a few more features that they really didn't talk about much but you'll see when we take a look. So I'm going to export this to a Print PDF. I'll go to File, Adobe PDF Presets and I'm just going to say High Quality Print, and we'll call it-- we'll just leave it GlobeBank2 on the desktop. Of course I can always change my mind with the preset up here, and I can modify the preset. For example, I might want to change the compression. I don't need 300, but I don't want 72, so I'll change these to 150. I don't have any grayscale and monochrome, so I don't need to worry about that. Let's go back to General. Down here, you have to remember that if you want to include hyperlinks, you have to turn that on. I was working with somebody who said that she couldn't get hyperlinks to work and she saw the word Hyperlinks but didn't realize that she had to check the box to make sure that it included hyperlinks. Of course I want to include bookmarks. The new features that they've added in 2015 are right here under Viewing. So, you could automatically set some defaults for how this PDF will open in Reader or Acrobat. The default just means whatever the user has set, the recipient has set, but I like to fit page so that users can see the entire page. And then the Layout, you can automatically override the users default by saying I want this facing pages document to appear as single pages, for example, but I actually want it to appear as two-up as facing pages. Now this document has a single page as a cover, so I'm going to choose that, Two-Up Continuous Cover Page so that page one, the cover, it will be by itself. And then page two and three will look like this down here. Now we'll go ahead and choose Export making sure that View PDF after Exporting is selected. Now I know that a PDF is being created because I can see the progression bar right here in Background Tasks. So something is happening. There it is. Now we have it open and I'm going to close these tools here. We don't need that. I'm using Acrobat Pro DC here, but this will work in basically any version of Acrobat. If we move down to page two and three, did you see that page one is by itself, page two and three spreads? And here is a link that will go directly there. If we open up the Bookmarks panel, I just click here, and choose Bookmarks, there's our bookmarks. So we can jump quickly to those pages. Now one thing that I don't like is I don't like this continuous look because you see, when I click Discover Business Strategies, we still see some of this. It puts Discover Business Strategies at the top. So there are still some things that you can only do in Acrobat, even for viewing the document. I'll go to the View menu and under Page Display, I want Two Page View, not Two Page Scrolling. I don't know why InDesign didn't include this opportunity. There we go. So that's what I like better. So when you click something, then you only see that spread. This is what I would call a hybrid or dual-purpose PDF. It has just the level of interactivity I want, but I have a lot more options because I was able to use the Export to PDF Print dialog box in InDesign.

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