#INTERACTIVE PDFS IN INDESIGN PDF#
If you want to link to the Hyperlink Destination (page) by clicking a text link: simply highlight the text that you want to be the internal link, and either click the Create new hyperlink button on the Hyperlink palette or, with the text highlighted, right-click and choose Interactive > New Hyperlink… and then in the resulting New Hyperlink dialogue box you can choose the Hyperlink Destination, a Character Style (something colorful and underlined like a link), the Appearance Type (choose Invisible Rectangle) and a Highlight (I usually don’t have one).Īnd now in the resulting PDF the word, when clicked, will take you to the relevant page of the Hyperlink Destination. If you want to link to the Hyperlink Destination (page) by clicking a button: convert an object to a button by right-clicking and choosing Interactive > Convert to Button.Īnd then when you have created a button select Go To Desination as the Action of that button in the Buttons palette.Īnd then you can set the destination of that button as the Text Anchor or Hyperlink Destination you set earlier so that when that button is clicked the PDF will go to the relevant page. The page with this hyperlink destination on it can now be linked to from some text or a button on another page. With the Text Tool cursor either blinking or having highlighted some text you can create a Text Anchor by either right-clicking and selecting Interactive > New Hyperlink Destination… or by selecting New Hyperlink Destination in the Hyperlinks palette.
In order to create an internal link within a PDF, you first have to create a Text Anchor in InDesign. Creating internal links in the interactive PDF This makes the e-book fun, interactive, non-linear and the sort of publication that you can dip in and navigate around quickly so as to aid the reading and learning experience. You can also have forms, movies, layers, rollovers – just about any interactivity that we are used to on the web. And you should use vector graphics, images, internal links, etc. For starters you have the pages landscape so that they fill the screen. In my opinion you can do so much more with PDFs.
They are usually upright pages of black Times New Roman text with a few hyperlinks. PDFs that are normally exported from Word documents are usually linear, ugly and hard to read. Usual characteristics of interactive PDFs
#INTERACTIVE PDFS IN INDESIGN HOW TO#
To see an example of an interactive PDF then you can download my free e-book How to Market Yourself Online or, if you’re feeling rich, you can download the premium version How To Get Clients which is featured in the video.
So I’ve made a video to show how to create hyperlink destinations within the InDesign document and then create buttons to go to them when clicked. How to create an interactive PDF with internal links video I’m often asked how to create an interactive PDF with InDesign with internal links so that you can, for example, click on a chapter title in the contents page and immediately get the PDF to jump to that page.
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