Thursday, 18 February 2016

Interactive PDF:
In this session, I created an interactive PDF booklet. This session was a challenge because I am not familiar with how to use buttons on Indesign. This is what I created, although it is incomplete.
I added a button onto the number five so that it would go straight to the introduction, this made it an interactive PDF and was under the interactive tool box in Indesign. It was simple to link the pages and was a good tool to learn. 



I also made a button on one of the circles in the poster I was recreating. As you can see, I didn't  match it exactly but through the process of kerning and letter height, I would be able to.

 Instead of writing an actual introduction and information page, I inserted this filler text which just displays where the text would go. It is a tool I am well familiar with and is great to use when deciding on layout and font size/ type.
 Inserting images was also another skill I revised. Although, I was also very familiar with this and it was not a challenge. The image is of the jazz musician that the PDF is about.
Inserting videos also made it an interactive PDF. You can press play and hear the video as well as see it play. This is a key skill to know when presenting work in the future and was also interesting to learn how to import a mov. file into InDesign. Overall, the tutorial was basic but essential. I am not too happy with the final product but felt it was very useful when learning how to create interactive PDF's.