1st Edition
Interactive InDesign CC Bridging the Gap between Print and Digital Publishing
With a growing focus on digital destinations, the publishing landscape is evolving at a dizzying speed and InDesign CC is at the forefront of the digital frontier. Known as the premiere layout application for magazine and print collateral, InDesign is also a powerful creation tool for both static and interactive PDF, Flash SWF, EPUB, and apps that can be published for sale in various app stores.
This tutorial-based guide to InDesign CC provides you with a hands-on experience of the EPUB creation process, InDesign animation, Digital Publishing Suite app creation, creation of interactive PDFs, and a host of techniques that serve equally well in both print and digital production.
This extensively detailed book is filled with over 700 screenshots, explicit diagrams, and step-by-step real-world exercises to get you up and running with:
*InDesign Animation
*Buttons, forms, and other interactive elements
*Interactive PDFs
*EPUB
*App building with DPS
*The fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and GREP
*A treasure trove of trips and techniques that will forever transform your work with InDesign.
Part 1: Interactive InDesign
Chapter 1: The Lay of the Land
Chapter 2: Designing for Interactivity
Chapter 3: The Interactive Interface
Part 2: Document Layout & Navigation
Chapter 4: Working with Text
Chapter 5: Multi-page Document Layout
Chapter 6: Hyperlinks and Cross-references
Chapter 7: Footnotes
Chapter 8: Creating a table of Contents
Chapter 9: Shapes and Color
Part 3: Buttons
Chapter 10: About Buttons
Chapter 11: Simple Image-based Buttons
Chapter 12: Multi-object Buttons
Part 4: Flash Animation and Output to SWF
Chapter 13: Introducing: Animation in InDesign!
Chapter 14: Getting Fancy with Animation
Chapter 15: Banner Ads
Chapter 16: SWF Output
Part 5: Interactive PDF
Chapter 17: Bookmarks
Chapter 18: Interactive PDF Forms
Chapter 19: Page Transitions
Chapter 20: Preparing for PDF Export
Part 6: EPUB
Chapter 21: EPUB Anatomy
Chapter 22: Images, Objects & the Flow
Chapter 23: Creating an InDesign Book
Chapter 24: HTML and CSS Fundamentals
Chapter 25: GREP
Chapter 26: EPUB Export and Publishing
Chapter 27: EPUB Resources
Part 7: Digital Publishing Suite
Chapter 28: Intro to DPS
Chapter 29: Designing for DPS
Chapter 30: Scrollable Frame Overlays
Chapter 31: Audio & Video Overlays
Chapter 32: Panoramas and Pan & Zoom
Chapter 33: Web Content Overlays & Hyperlinks
Chapter 34: Slideshows and Hyperlinks
Biography
Mira Rubin is an Adobe Certified instructor in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Captivate, and has been inspiring reckless pursuit of all things Adobe in countless students since the dawn of the new millennium. Her company, Mira Images, is a Philadelphia-based Adobe Authorized Training Center and consultancy (www.miraimages.com) specializing in training, digital publishing. eLearning, and productivity-based solutions. A self-declared nerd, Mira has deep technical knowledge of and unbounded enthusiasm for the Adobe Creative Suite applications and finds tremendous joy and satisfaction in transferring that skill to others. Gifted with an ability to make even the most complex concepts understandable, she places a great emphasis on real-world skills, best practices, and productivity tools. Mira began her formal writing career writing demo scripts for Adobe. Her first book, Interactive InDesign CS5, was published by Focal Press in 2010.
