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Interactive InDesign / Buttons & Hyperlinks pt. 2




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Let's just add a couple more buttons to our document here. We'll bring out our sample library and we'll just drag out this red button here and we'll do this as a hyperlink to our web page. So one of the strange things is that if I type this text and put it on top of the button, the text doesn't show when I export to PDF. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe that's a little fix they need to make to InDesign. So I'll just put Visit website. And I'll just center this and make it bold, bring it up a couple of points and as I say, just set it below that because it's not going to show if I put it on top of this button. So we'll add the button action. We'll take away the Go to Page action. We don't want that. We'll add a new one and we'll put Go to URL and whoops. I'll select it here and we'll type it in. Www.VTC.com because there isn't a real website for this company and there we are. That should work. We'll close it up. Now, sometimes I've done this and it hasn't worked and I've gone back into this button and seen that the URL is actually missing so it looks as if it will work this time. So I can just select this and pop it and then go to my Pages Menu. Whoa, it's a little big there. Bring it down a little bit and see if we can take it in some. It doesn't want to. That's OK. I'll just go to Page 2 and paste in place, Page 3, paste in place, Page 4, paste in place, Page 5, paste in place. And I have to move this text down a little bit here. There's no problem there. And then I'll just add one more button down here. Go to Our Sample Library, just drag a little button out here and we'll put an action here to go to the first page. We'll go here and we'll delete that one, we'll add a new action, Go to First Page. There we go. Inherit Zoom. We want it to Fit in Window so that'll work. Close it up and now we'll export this. File, Export, Interactive 1, we'll accept the settings, export everything and now we can go through the page as we've seen before. That one notices we went through to the end. We have the button, takes us back to the first page and if we want to visit the website, there we go. Straight to the VTC website like that. Now, as I said at the beginning of this chapter, the interactivity within InDesign is at an early stage and I really expect it to expand considerably with upcoming versions but there's enough here to get you started playing around with it and in the next chapter you're going to be able to see how to export your InDesign documents to SWF and Flash.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe InDesign CS4
Author: Brian White
SKU: 33978
ISBN: 1-935320-36-X
Release Date: 2009-03-31
Duration: 16.5 hrs / 222 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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