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How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

Lesson 39 from: Adobe InDesign Mastery

Daniel Walter Scott

How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

Lesson 39 from: Adobe InDesign Mastery

Daniel Walter Scott

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39. How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

Lessons

Class Trailer

Overview

1

Introduction To Adobe InDesign CC Advanced

02:24
2

Getting Started With The Adobe InDesign CC Advanced Class

02:38
3

Adjusting Your Workspace For Maximum Amazingness

08:20

Fonts

4

Setting The Default Font Size For New Documents Adobe InDesign

01:14
5

Special Features For Typekit & Open Type Fonts

07:43
6

Where To Get Great Free Fonts For Use In InDesign

03:34
7

Mastering Your Fonts In Adobe InDesign CC

03:39
8

What The Font - Font Guess In Adobe InDesign CC

06:20
9

How To Pick Beautiful Font Pairings In Adobe InDesign CC

02:27
10

Quiz - Fonts

Creative Cloud APP

11

Free Icons Using Adobe Market In InDesign CC

05:45

Color

12

How To Use The Color Theme Tool In Adobe InDesign CC

03:13
13

Using Color Modes In Adobe InDesign CC

02:37
14

Importing Colors & Setting Default Colors In Adobe InDesign CC

06:58
15

Finding Great Colours Using Adobe Color For Use In Adobe InDesign CC

01:11
16

Appearance Of Black & Proofing Colours

07:59
17

Draw Lot Of Shapes At Once InDesign Gridify Live Distribute

13:15
18

Quiz - Color

Drawing

19

How To Make Arrows In Adobe InDesign CC

04:13
20

How To Draw Complex Flowers In Adobe InDesign CC

07:25
21

Quiz - Drawing

Paragraph Goodness

22

How Text Boxes Can Auto-Expand In Adobe InDesign CC With Auto Size

04:41
23

Placeholder Text Alternatives In Adobe InDesign CC

05:43
24

How To Add Paragraph Borders & Shading In Adobe InDesign CC

09:57
25

Paragraph Vs Single Line Composer In Adobe InDesign CC

02:17
26

How To Make Paragraphs Span 2 Columns In Adobe InDesign CC

03:00
27

Mastering Justification In Adobe InDesign CC

04:42
28

Mastering Hyphenation Options Using Adobe InDesign CC

06:54
29

Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC

02:25
30

The Secret Power Of Keep Options In Adobe InDesign CC

05:00
31

Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC

04:27
32

How To Use Conditional Text In Adobe InDesign CC

07:23
33

Quiz - Paragraph Goodness

Charts & Infographics

34

How To Create Pie Charts & Bar Graphs In Adobe InDesign CC

09:37
35

Quiz - Charts & Infographics

Interactive Documents

36

The Pros & Cons Of The Various Interactive Types In InDesign CC

08:46
37

How To Create An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

08:48
38

How To Add Interactive Page Transitions In Adobe InDesign CC

03:58
39

How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

06:01
40

What Is Publish Online In Adobe InDesign CC

06:39
41

How To Publish Your Adobe InDesign Publish Online Documents

03:37
42

How To Add Video To Adobe InDesign CC Documents

06:56
43

How To Create Interactive Button Triggered Animations In InDesign CC

05:53
44

How To Make A Multi State Object In Adobe InDesign CC

03:36
45

How To Add Adobe Animate CC To InDesign CC Files

03:39
46

Adding Maps & Calendars To Interactive Documents In InDesign CC

02:52
47

How To Create QR Codes In Adobe InDesign CC

02:49
48

Quiz - Interactive Documents

Keyboard Shortcuts

49

Keyboard Shortcuts In Adobe InDesign CC That Will Change Your Life

11:04
50

Keyboard Shortcuts

Long Documents

51

How To Automatically Place Lots Of Text Onto Multiple Pages In InDesign CC

08:07
52

How To Make A Cross Reference In Adobe InDesign CC

06:33
53

How To Create An Index In Adobe InDesign CC

05:21
54

Add Document Name Automatically To The Page In InDesign Using Text Variables

05:47
55

How To Use The Adobe InDesign CC Book Feature

04:53
56

Quiz - Long Documents

Preferences

57

Changing Preferences For Advanced InDesign Users

05:24

Workflow Speed Tips

58

How To Speed Up Your Workflow For Advanced InDesign CC Users Styles

03:34

Styles

59

Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

04:09
60

Advanced Paragraph Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

01:57
61

How To Use & Map Word Styles In With Adobe InDesign Styles

03:18
62

How To Create Nested Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

04:08
63

How To Create A Grep Style In Adobe InDesign CC

05:58
64

How To Use A Next Style In Adobe InDesign CC

05:27
65

Advanced Object Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

07:51
66

Quiz - Styles

Multiple Documents

67

Best Practices For Working Across Multiple Documents In Adobe InDesign

10:06

Images

68

How To Use Adobe Stock With Adobe InDesign CC

03:16
69

How To Crop Images Inside Of Text In Adobe InDesign CC

04:11
70

Using Adobe Comp CC To Make InDesign Layouts On Your Mobile Phone Or Ipad

03:47
71

Quiz - Images

CC Libraries

72

Advanced Use Of CC Libraries In Adobe InDesign CC

09:40

Photoshop & Illustrator

73

How To Get The Most Of Photoshop & Illustrator In Adobe InDesign CC

13:32

Forms

74

How To Create A PDF Form Using Adobe InDesign CC

21:17
75

Quiz - Forms

Pages

76

Advanced Use Of The Pages Panel In Adobe InDesign CC

08:22
77

How To Place InDesign Documents Inside Of Each Other

01:55
78

Quiz - Pages

Scripts

79

How To Use And Install Scripts In Adobe InDesign CC

08:42

Speed Up InDesign

80

How To Speed Up InDesign When It’s Running Really Slow

07:34
81

Quiz - Speed Up InDesign

Exporting & Printing Tricks

82

Advanced Exporting & Printing Tricks For Adobe InDesign CC

02:32
83

Quiz - Exporting & Printing Tricks

Next Steps

84

BONUS: Software Updates

03:42
85

What To Do Once You’ve Finished Your Advanced InDesign CC Training Class

01:04

Final Quiz

86

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

Hi there in this video we're going to make navigation okay? Like this one on the side here for an interactive pdf when you click on tables, jumps the tables page and then the cheers page and then the shelves okay. You know how navigation works but you might not know how to create it and in design so let's go and learn how to do that now. Okay so to get the navigation to work I'm going to have the navigation on every page so it's a good idea to put it on the Master page. So I'm gonna go to my pages panel and I'm going to go to a Master. I'm gonna double click it. And what I wanted to do is if I put it in here now it's going to be at the bottom of my layers so especially on page one where I've got that whereas he had this big image here, it's not going to appear on top, it's gonna appear below. So on the a master I'm going to go to my layers panel and we haven't got any other layers. But layer one, I'm going to rename layer one. This is going to be called main content, that's where every...

thing is at the moment. I'm going to make a new layer, double click it. I'm going to call this one navigation. That's the one I'm going to work on so I just need to make sure that it's blue and highlighted. I can close it back in there now. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a kind of like a ribbon kind of navigation. like you saw you can draw any which way you like, I'm going to do it, I'm gonna go hit the W key so I'm not in preview, I'm gonna grab the rectangle tool and I'll pick a fill color of my maneuver, I'm gonna pick all three of them, so I'll start with the green and I'm going to draw out a box like this. Okay, And to get the little divot in, there's a couple of ways I'm going to use the method where where I use the pen tool. Okay, there's one that says add an anchor point, so click on that. So I've held down the pen tool, grab, add an anchor point and I'm gonna hover somewhere in the middle. Close ish. So I've got another little anchor point now to move that little point around. I use the white arrow. Okay, so the white arrow and then click it once click off, click it once again, you can see now this one's red and all the rest of them are white. So you might have to click off, click back on again, just so that one is selected. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. Okay, I'm just gonna click hold and drag it in. Great. I'm going to grab the type tool Dropbox and this one is going to be called? Tables, make it white paper. Okay, so you build some sort of navigation, it doesn't really matter what. Okay. Um Actually what I might do to put my text box in the air and make it centered. So back to the type tool make it centered because I'm gonna adjust this for all the different navigation options centered might help. So I've got these two have selected both of them. I'm going to copy them holding the old and dragging you can just copy and paste them. So it's going to be cheers. That's why did centered. So they all kind of just ended up looking centered and we'll do a third option and this one is going to be shelves exciting. Okay let's do the colors you are going to be these guys and then we'll get into the nav I promise. Pink you and be the people awesome. And for this to work properly as well. We need to group these two so select both of them. Black arrow. I've gone command G. Ok or object group command G. Or control G. On a pc. Just to group them together. And let's have a look at our pages now because we're working on on our layers panel. Remember on this top layer. Okay everything should be on top. So what I'm gonna do is jump to my pages panel. Double click page one. Okay And there's my title, close it in and see him there. So on all the pages I've got this navigation. Obviously you can add a navigation anywhere. Now what I want to do is I want to go back to my A Master so double click them here and let's add the interactivity to him to do it. We need to open up this hyperlinks panel. If you can't find it there, just go to window, go to interactive and there's one in there called Hyperlinks. And all I need to do is click on this guy and this hyperlink, I want to click on him and I want to say I want to go to page. Okay, and what page I'm going to get it to go to, I can't remember tables I think is the first page. So while my first kind of text page, which is page two chairs is I have no idea, I've got to go check, but you get the idea right. So this one's tables and chairs and shelves can do dan. All right, so you selected it's opened up hyperlinks and I'm gonna say you Go to page three and you go to page all of them and because it's on the Master page, hopefully it's going to update on all the pages. Now, this little feature works both for interactive PDFs, but also works for our published online and our e pub, which is really handy. So it's kind of one of those ones that you can do and yeah, and it's going to work on all the formats you can think of. Let's preview it. Okay, so make sure my vision is closed in my acrobat. Okay, so I've closed it down. I'm going to file export and give it the same name, catalog. Interactive is the big part click Save, replace the old one. And in here I'm gonna turn off the show full screen because that's annoying. Um let's click export. The one thing you need to do is make sure that and this is include all that's one thing that can get turned off occasionally. Okay, just make sure it's on let's click export oversight text. I'm okay with that. And now, hopefully chairs, tables, shelves. Cool. Huh? So navigation and hyperlinks. Okay. Worked. Perfect. And interactive pdf, it doesn't have to be full screen, like our page transitions, but it works in all the other formats as well, publish online and keep up. Alright, so that's going to be it for interactive pdf. There's not a lot you can do that is consistent across lots of readers. Okay. So that is the big problems with interactive pdf. Just do basic stuff. One of the things that we haven't done here is forms. Okay. I know it's kind of interactive, but it's got its own section in this video course to go check that out. Alright on to the next video

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