From the course: Creating an Interactive PDF Brochure
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Add navigation buttons - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Creating an Interactive PDF Brochure
Add navigation buttons
- [Instructor] The first kind of interactivity that we'll add to our document will help our readers navigate through the pages and jump to the content that they're interested in. And we'll do that by converting regular page objects into buttons. Now before we start working on this document, let's change our workspace here in InDesign so we have most of the tools for working with interactivity right at our fingertips. I'll go to the workspace menu and switch from Essentials to Interactive for PDF. This is a work space that ships with InDesign, but you can modify it to suit your needs, and you can always get back to the default arrangement of panels in this work space by choosing Reset Interactive for PDF from that same menu. Now let's make a few changes here. We're not going to use the sample buttons and forms library, so I'll right click on it and choose Close and I'll do the same for Page Transitions, Color, Stroke, Gradient, CC Libraries, and now we have a nice uncluttered work…
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What we're going to build4m 17s
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Add navigation buttons7m 8s
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Add bookmarks5m 33s
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Add hyperlinks9m 49s
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Use buttons to change content5m 56s
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Place video6m 27s
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Create a PDF form4m 17s
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Collect form data3m 24s
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Export and test5m 23s
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Fix PDF problems with Adobe Acrobat4m 40s
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