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Overview of interactive objects

Overview of interactive objects - InDesign Tutorial

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Overview of interactive objects

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- [Narrator] Before we get into the details of using InDesign's features for creating interactivity, let's just spend a few minutes talking about what kinds of interactive objects you can create with InDesign and how they're different from regular objects in your layout. There are three kinds of InDesign objects that exist just to create interactivity. These are buttons, multi-state objects and form fields. And, we'll cover the details of working with each one of these in later movies. But, we'll start out here by just trying to understand what these things are. Here's an example of an interactive pdf where I converted some of the text frames into buttons that can be clicked to view different images in this artist portfolio. Notice when I mouse over the buttons, the text changes color from black to purple. So, buttons can change in appearance in response to user input, like mousing over or clicking. Buttons can also be used to do things like control the visibility of other buttons…

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