Audience
This course is for those who want to create powerful interactive publications that work across a range of digital platforms.
Prerequisites
You should consider attending InDesign Advanced before taking this course.
Duration
2 days. Hands on.
Course Objectives
Create powerful interactive publications that work across a range of digital platforms. Improve your InDesign skills by creating apps, ebooks, visually rich websites and more.
Delivered by an Adobe Authorised training provider.
What will I learn?
- Interactive publishing tips
- Design for mobile devices
- Add audio, images and video
- Combine elements for interactivity
- Manage online publications
- Free digital course assets
- Free helpdesk support for 28 days
Course Content
Day One
Introduction to interactive publishing with InDesign
• Interactive PDF presentations
• E-magazines
• Reflowable ePubs
• Publishing Online
• Interactive forms
Scaling documents
• Liquid layouts and the Page tool
• Alternate layouts
• Using liquid page rules
Interactive PDF presentations
• Using master pages to create an interactive template
• Page transitions
• Creating document navigation
• Setting Export Options
Introducing interactivity
• Creating hyperlinks
• Web and navigation links using buttons
• Generating a QR Code
Interactive PDF forms
• Text fields
• Check boxes
• Combo boxes
• List boxes
• Radio buttons
• Signature field
Animation
• Applying motion presets to objects
• Customising animated events
• Adjusting the timing
• Previewing the results
Questions and answers
Day Two
Adding audio
• Adding and configuring audio
• Creating Play and Stop audio buttons
Adding video
• Adding video into a layout
• Video playback options
• Specifying a poster frame
InDesign and HTML
• Using HTML export
• Considerations using InDesign HTML
Reflowable ePubs
• Creating an ePub cover
• Using image anchors to keep content inline
• Font considerations
Creating an online magazine
• Content guidelines
• Generating a hyperlinked table of contents
• Submitting to eBook stores
Publish Online
• Preparing layouts for the web
• Uploading and managing online publications
• Sharing content
Questions and answers