Adobe InDesign Multimedia Documents 1 Day
Course Overview
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of topics required.
Planning an Interactive document
- Creating a Site Map
- Planning the hierarchy sections in the document
- How the project is organised
- Ensuring continuity in your design
- Looking at where links are placed and where they jump to
- A shortlist to planning your interactive project
Setting up your Interactive document
- Setting up Master pages
- Creating the background elements for pages
- Designing rollover navigational buttons
- Creating Next and Previous buttons
Creating the document pages
- Importing the graphic elements
- Creating a Library of images
Creating Hyperlinks
- Applying Hyperlinks to graphics
- Working with the Hyperlinks palette
- Specifying Destinations for Hyperlinks
- Specifying the Hyperlink's appearance
- Adding Hyperlinks to URLs
Creating Buttons
- Converting graphic objects to Buttons
- Working with the States Palette
- Creating different States for the buttons
- Changing the appearance for the different States
- Using the States palette to view different States
Adding Behaviours to Buttons
- Looking at different Events
- Closing the document
- Going to different places
- Playing Multimedia
- Opening a file
- Showing or hiding objects
- Changing the Zoom level
Using Graphics for different States
- Importing a graphic and converting to a button
- Creating a Rollover State and placing the graphic into the State
- Assigning Behaviours to the States
Adding Show/Hide elements
- Creating the Contextual Button
- Converting graphics to Buttons
- Making the button invisible
- Creating the Trigger Button
- Assigning Behaviours to Show and Hide the fields
- Examining the Mouse Action Behaviours
- Testing the Button Behaviours in Acrobat
Adding a Movie
- Looking at Movie file formats
- Placing a Movie into InDesign
- Looking at Movie Options
- Designating a 'Poster' to show before and after the movie plays
- Determining when and how the Movie plays
- Embedding a Movie
- Streaming a Movie from a Web site
Adding Sounds
- Looking at Sound play options
- Determining the Sounds to play when the user displays a page, clicks buttons for Play, Pause and/or Stop
Creating and Testing the Interactive PDF file
- Using PDF pre-sets to export the file to PDF
- Choosing PDF options
- Saving the Options as a custom pre-sets
- Test the document in Acrobat
Adobe InDesign Multimedia Documents 1 Day
Course Overview
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of topics required.
Planning an Interactive document
- Creating a Site Map
- Planning the hierarchy sections in the document
- How the project is organised
- Ensuring continuity in your design
- Looking at where links are placed and where they jump to
- A shortlist to planning your interactive project
Setting up your Interactive document
- Setting up Master pages
- Creating the background elements for pages
- Designing rollover navigational buttons
- Creating Next and Previous buttons
Creating the document pages
- Importing the graphic elements
- Creating a Library of images
Creating Hyperlinks
- Applying Hyperlinks to graphics
- Working with the Hyperlinks palette
- Specifying Destinations for Hyperlinks
- Specifying the Hyperlink's appearance
- Adding Hyperlinks to URLs
Creating Buttons
- Converting graphic objects to Buttons
- Working with the States Palette
- Creating different States for the buttons
- Changing the appearance for the different States
- Using the States palette to view different States
Adding Behaviours to Buttons
- Looking at different Events
- Closing the document
- Going to different places
- Playing Multimedia
- Opening a file
- Showing or hiding objects
- Changing the Zoom level
Using Graphics for different States
- Importing a graphic and converting to a button
- Creating a Rollover State and placing the graphic into the State
- Assigning Behaviours to the States
Adding Show/Hide elements
- Creating the Contextual Button
- Converting graphics to Buttons
- Making the button invisible
- Creating the Trigger Button
- Assigning Behaviours to Show and Hide the fields
- Examining the Mouse Action Behaviours
- Testing the Button Behaviours in Acrobat
Adding a Movie
- Looking at Movie file formats
- Placing a Movie into InDesign
- Looking at Movie Options
- Designating a 'Poster' to show before and after the movie plays
- Determining when and how the Movie plays
- Embedding a Movie
- Streaming a Movie from a Web site
Adding Sounds
- Looking at Sound play options
- Determining the Sounds to play when the user displays a page, clicks buttons for Play, Pause and/or Stop
Creating and Testing the Interactive PDF file
- Using PDF pre-sets to export the file to PDF
- Choosing PDF options
- Saving the Options as a custom pre-sets
- Test the document in Acrobat
