Add a dynamic new dimension to your InDesign layouts! In this one-day course, you'll transform static documents into interactive experiences full of audio, video, animations, buttons, forms, and more. Perfect for creating engaging presentations, brochures, or digital publications, you'll learn to prepare your designs for both interactive PDFs and online sharing.

Setup for Interactivity & Animation

• Interactive PDF Workspaces
• Supported File Formats: PDF, XHTML and ePub
• Choosing the Interactive Solution you Need
• Best Preferences for Interactivity
• Colour: CMYK vs RGB

Interactive PDFs Options

• Creating Hyperlinks
• Converting URLs to Hyperlinks
• Generating Bookmarks
• Creating Buttons
• Assigning Behaviours using the Buttons Panel
• Events and Actions
• Creating Show/Hide Buttons
• Using Sound & Video
• Controlling View and Zoom Behaviour
• Buttons: Rollovers and States
• Adding a Button to Enter Full Screen Mode
• Animation in your PDF: Discussing Practices and Limitations
• Adding Page Transitions
• Preview Panel
• Presentation Mode

Audio & Video

• Importing Sounds and Movies
• Linking to Web Videos
• Discussing Movie Options
• Sound Options
• Limitations with Audio and Video

InDesign Forms

• InDesign Forms vs Acrobat Forms
• Creating Form Fields
• Text Entry Fields
• List of Choices
• Radio Buttons
• Check Boxes
• Combo Boxes
• Submit Buttons

Exporting Interactive PDFs

• View & Open Options
• Ensuring Bookmarks are visible in PDF
• Image Compression Options

Demonstrating the Publish Online Feature

• Publish Online Dashboard
• Analytics
• Social Media Options
• PDF Options

Private/ Group Enrolments:
This course is available for individual enrolment and Private classes (min 10 students). Please contact Lumify to organise a quote.

What do I need to know to attend?

It is essential that students have at least 1 to 2 years experience with InDesign or have completed the 2 day Adobe InDesign Essentials course.

Ideal for Graphic designers, desktop publishers, and marketers wanting to add interactivity to their work. InDesign users ready to level up their skills and create content with richer user controls. Anyone keen to expand their InDesign toolkit and bring new life to their documents.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Set up InDesign for interactive workflows and understand supported file formats.
• Create hyperlinks and navigation bookmarks for easy document navigation.
• Design interactive buttons with rollovers, states, and assigned actions.
• Incorporate audio and video, optimizing these elements for PDF integration.
• Design basic InDesign forms with various fields (text entry, checkboxes, etc.).
• Export finished work as interactive PDFs with custom view settings
• Use the "Publish Online" feature for web-based document sharing and analytics.

2 day Adobe InDesign Essentials