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Interactive PDF workflow

Interactive PDF workflow - InDesign Tutorial

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Interactive PDF workflow

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- [Instructor] While everyone's workflow can be different, generally speaking you can divide the job of creating interactive PDFs into two main parts: the work that you do in InDesign, and the work that has to take place after you export the PDF. And within these two main parts, there are several common tasks to consider and to do. So, let's take a look at the steps in an interactive PDF workflow. If you're starting a new project, the interactive PDF workflow begins pretty much the same as any other InDesign project. In order to build consistent, professional-looking pages and do it with some amount of efficiency, you have to do some pre-production work. Building things like styles for text and objects, swatches for color, and setting up your document with proper layers and guides. If you're gonna be creating similar documents over and over, then you might want to save a template so you're always starting from a clean slate. Then, in the next phase, you put real content into your…

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