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Design for interactivity - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive Documents
Design for interactivity
- [Instructor] When it comes to choosing the right file format for your interactive documents, one approach you can take is to think about the features that matter the most to you. And then, see which file formats support those features. In this movie, we'll take a look at a very handy table that shows InDesign's features for building interactivity, and which file formats support those features, and which ones don't. You can find this PDF in the exercise files. On the first page, it shows the kind of files that you can export with interactivity that we cover in this course. So, we have interactive PDF, reflowable EPUB, Fixed-Layout EPUB, and Publish Online. In terms of features, first we have Preserve Layout Appearance, which is one of the basic questions you have to ask when you're planning to create interactive documents. Are you trying to use InDesign as a primary design tool for your layout? Or, will you create formatting some other way? The formats that will preserve the look of…
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