Create an interactive digital brochure

Which of the Adobe Suite applications is best suited to create an interactive digital brochure? I am new to Creative Coud and fairly new to most of the Adobe Apps but wanting to learn. Indesign or Illustrator plus which others?
I want to be able to view brochure on desktop and mobile platforms and I want the brochure to include page flips, video, animation, etc.

You can't do all of those things in the same kind of digital file. You can choose InDesign. Your choices are interactive PDF, SWF or a tablet app with Digital Publishing Suite. You need to investigate which of those features work with which output.

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  • Create Digital Brochure (ebrochure)

    I would like to create a digital brochure (catalogue with product pictures and contents) to be sent by email or to be shown on a internet page.
    The brochure does not have video but needs to have the flipping pages effect, sonething that I have understood needs Flash.
    I am not sure what software can be used: Pages or Adobe CS4?
    Thank you for your help

    Hi jtcreations72
    Welcome to the forum.
    Pages does not, although you can convert a .pdf output from Pages:
    http://www.swftools.org/
    http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/07/20/javascript-sprite-animation-using-jque ry/
    http://www.turn-page.com/online-interactive-publications/
    http://page-flip.com/
    http://www.pdf2pageturn.com/
    http://www.emagcreator.com/?kk=flip%20page&_kt=456e575f-a1cd-490d-b902-5f5f82a6d600&gclid=CMGeiprR_p0CFQEupA odq1tsQ
    http://vcab.com/content/vcab-overview.aspx?ref=VCAU-Generic&gclid=CKOol5vR_p0CFc 0vpAodcX4gqA
    http://www.wildflip.com/
    http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/PhotosGraphics/Web_Graphics/Macromedia_Flash/Q23355830.html
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    http://wareseeker.com/free-pdf-page-flip/
    http://www.truworthit.com/products/xml-FlashPageFlip.php
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  • Publish a digital brochure for car manufacturer? Allowed?

    I got a great idea, to digital making a digital brochure for a car manufacturer. Yes ofcource the brand has to give the OK on this. But my doubts are, is iTunes U allowing me to publish a digital document aka brochure for promoting a carbrand and it's cars. Because i see great oppertunities to do so on the iBooks/Author. However i allready tried some emailing back and forth and just keep getting 'relatively' standard answers back, and they all point out at educational guidelines and usage of logos and such.
    Can somebody shed some light on this?

    You seem confused.
    iBooks2 and the iBooks author are perfect for creating rich, interactive books. Sure, you can use that.
    iTunes U... notice the "U" there? That stands for University. This is a service geared toward Higher Education. Not a commercial entity.
    You can use the tools to author a book, but you need to look elsewhere to distribute the book. iTunes U is not appropriate for that. Good luck!

  • How do I create an interactive map?

    How do I create an interactive map using digital publishing suite in InDesign? Basically it's an amusement park map and when you click on a button I want a description page of a ride to show that has interactivity on it and then it can be closed and another button on the map can be clicked to show another description page of a different ride. Is that possible?

    Use a multi state object. Depending upon how many point of interest you want on that map it can get pretty involved.

  • How to create an interactive magazine with CS3

    I am trying to create an interactive magazine with CS3 and don't know how to do it. First of all, is this possible with CS3 or do I need to upgrade to CS4? And if it is possible, can anyone tell me a step by step plan to follow? Or is there a book or download I can get for more information which is recommended?
    Thanks

    Google is your friend: Interactive Newsletters
    You can make digital newsletters for PDF in CS3 or 4. To make a digital newsletter that can be viewed in a browser (export to swf) you need CS4. Big advantage of swf is much smaller file size than PDF.
    One free bit of advice: design your file horizontally (11 w x 8.5h) since that works best for reading a PDF or swf online.

  • How to create an interactive magazine with user comments and voting system?

    I need to create an interactive magazine that includes user comments and votes (like/unlike).
    I know that I can create digital swf magazines in indesign and that user comments and like/unlike buttons can be entered with coding in adobe dreamweaver.
    I need this for a school project and I do not know if it's possible or if there is another way of doing it in dreamweaver...
    Thanks

    The easiest way to do like/unlike voting is use facebook´s like/unlike button generator at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ to create a code. You can set up the appearance and some features of your button and you will end up having an iFrame code. You can add that code into your html-wrapper file with some regular texteditor like wordPad....
    Here´s one example, it´s an InDesign SWF finalized with eDocker but I don´t see any reason why you couldn´t use the SWF exported directly from InDesign as well. If you want to put it to some specific location, you have to wrap it up into a div and set up some css for that div, but it´s not a rocket science either.....=)
    http://www.prepress.fi/keva

  • What is the best program to use to create an interactive pdf?

    what is the best program to use to create an interactive pdf?

    So it sounds like you want to create a form. There are really two approaches, either Acrobat (AcroForm) or LiveCycle Designer (XFA form). LiveCycle Designer comes with Acrobat Pro, but it's an entirely separate application.
    For an AcroForm, you'd create the underlying document in a page layout program (e.g., InDesign), word processor, or some other software and convert to PDF. Then in Acrobat you;d add the interactive form fields and any scripting you want. You can also add other types of interactive elements such as links, bookmarks, multimedia, etc. You can add a button which when clicked initiates an email with the filled-in form attached of submits to a web server.
    For an XFA form, you'd normally create the entire document in LiveCycle Designer, particularly for a dynamic forms. There's a lot that PDF has to offer that's not available with XFA forms, but XFA forms can do things AcroForms can't. For a good discussion of the important differences between the two types of forms, see the following article: http://acrobatusers.com/blogs/thomp/so-what-difference-between-acroforms-and-xfa
    For a form that needs to be saved with Adobe Reader, the document needs to be Reader-enabled. When such a document is opened in Reader, it will unlock certain functionality that Reader does not have otherwise, such as commenting, signing digital signature fields, and most important saving. But when a document has been extended this way with Acrobat, there are licesning restrictions. In short, if you distribute an enabled document to more than 500 recipients, you are allowed to use data from no more than 500 forms that have been returned to you, including hard copied. If fewer than 500 recipients, there is no such limit.

  • What software is best to use to create an interactive CD?

    Hi
    I'm creating an interactive cd rom. I have made several interactive CDs already using a really basic bit of software called Autoplay Menu Builder (made by a company called Linasoft) but it has several limitations.
    Basically it needs to be an easy to navigate menu with thumbnails of images that users can click on to open and print however many images they like (one at a time). The images will be pdfs as I will distribute a copy of Adobe Reader on the CD (yes I do have a license to do so!)
    The main problem I am having with my current software is that each menu program I create can only handle opening 10 or so pdfs and so I need to have lots of menus linking to one another in order to be able to open all of the pdf files on the cd (usually several hundred files). Each menu program is an .exe file with autorun feature. Each .exe file is named 'autorun.exe' by default and I cant change the name without encountering problems. Therefore the CD ends up containing 100s of .exe files with exactly the same name and users are having problems with their virus checker software thinking that the CD contains a trojan virus.
    So I need to come up with a new way of making these CDs.
    Things I need my interactive CD project to do...
    * Autorun from disc without prompt from the user
    * Run from disc only - I don't want the user to have to install anything or need an Internet connection to use the CD
    * Not to have issues with the most commonly used anti virus software (I know this might be an impossible task)
    * Have a customisable interface and buttons etc.
    * Enable the user to quickly and easily open and print 100s of pdfs one at a time
    * It needs to work on older home computers - and if possible to work on both mac and pc platforms
    I would rather not have it open in an Internet browser window - but would go for this option if I could remove/disable the navigation bar and give it some kind of skin (so that users don't think that they have to be online to use the CD - I know that sounds daft but it's quite important to the project I am trying to create).
    After reading around the forums I think that Director seems the logical way to go but thought it was worth asking for any advice on the matter before diving in at the deep end - I'm not familiar with Director or Flash... but always willing to learn something new!
    Any advice or comments very much appreciated!
    Thanks, Emma.

    Director will definitely do what you want, but,  you will have to program the functions you need yourself.  If you have programming experience from another programming language other than lingo (directors programming language) it's relatively easy to get the hang of lingo, most later director versions also supports java script. In addition you're going to need a few plugins (called xtras in director) to get all the functionality you need, specifically BuddyAPI to be able to load or open the pdf's and get a list of the files on the cd, and if you don't want to use the adobe reader you will need Impressario to view and print the pdfs.
    Also, there are probably quite a few director users that have done something similar already so if you need help you can go to www.director-online.com or http://www.directorforum.com/ and search the forums (or ask for help).

  • How do I create an interactive PDF file with variable data

    We would like to basically do a 'mail merge' of our list of customers with an interactive PDF file (including videos, menus, etc - not just form fill out and web links) to create a single PDF file that contains multiple mail pieces ... one for each customer ... with each mail piece being customized for that customer.  Customizations would include different greetings (Dear Bob, Dear Dana, etc), as well as different charts based on data unique to the customer, different photographs, etc.
    I've seen that InDesign and Acrobat Professional can be used to create an interactive PDF (such as from http://tv.adobe.com/watch/ask-the-adobe-ones/14-calling-rufus-about-interactive-pdf-making).  However I don't understand how I can insert data from a database, csv file, excel file etc into the PDF file so that each page, or each set of pages, within the PDF can be customized.
    Can anyone point me to a tool to use for this?
    Thanks,
    Bob Kendall

    For that kind of volume and unattended operation, you want InDesign Server – which is the server/high volume edition of INDD.
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    Subject: How do I create an interactive PDF file with variable data
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  • Is there a way to create an interactive form without Acrobat

    Bottom line, is there a way to create an interactive form that can either be filled out and saved, or "submitted" with a mailto: button without having to buy a copy of acrobat too.
    I have found numerous tutorials and examples, but everytime I try I run into the "action is not supported" error from adobe reader. Ironically, I have not problems saving a filled out form with OSX preview, but that won't work for PC users.
    It seems like Adobe missed a step or is just forcing users to buy a secondary product to "re-save" a file with a form.

    It’s not a failing at all. It’s just the way it is.
    If you’d like to file a feature request you can do so here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
    Bob

  • I have created an interaction to show 7 groups and 7 clickable objects. Once all are click the Next Button is show. How can you make that work if you want to embeded the SWF just created but show a button in a master Captivate?

    In flash you can have a shell that has the navigation and some button in the shell are not activated until all clickable objects are clicked.  I am not a flash programmer but it was related to using the path of shell and the sub-project.
    Can anybody help me on that.
    I would like to create Captivate interaction that you can just embedded in a Shell captivate project.
    Do I need to set variables at both levels (Global variable. 

    Hello Lieve, That is the screen shot of my custom interactivity, when all labels are clicked the Continue button will be shown because there is a conditional validating if all Labels have now a value of 1. What I am trying to achieve is to create an interaction where where the continue button (an the back button would reside in another Captivate project. This way there is no reprograming required or use of share-actions.  Everytime we use a similar advanced action or a shared action we have to make sure the object name in the advanced actions or conditional actions are not the same.  I trying to make it a bit dump proof for somebody that does not know any thing about advanced  action and just reuse the label interaction in may projects.  (The only thing they would change would be the image and the content of the label.
    Do you thing I going in the right direction.  (As I said before I have custom javacript in Captivate 5.5) to unlock un button that was part of the LCMS ForceTen). I belive the word .this was part of the object path in the JavaScript.  Can we hide and show a Captivate button.
    I have embedded other Captivate animation in a Master Captivate but the objets were not talking to each other. (You can see a sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erm4_qdybiA&feature=youtube_gdata). In that sample the continue is always there and can be click anytime.  The 3 steps animation has been done as another project and embedded in my main captivate.  I would like to implement a solution where a my 7 labels have to be clicked in the subproject before showing and enabling the Continue button.
    I hope my explanation is clear enough.

  • How can I create a interactive image on ibook author, just like the temperatures map on the "life on earth" book?

    I need a create an interactive image at the ibook author app, but I don´t know how, I saw the interactve image in the "life on earth" book, from the apple store, in an temperature map
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  • How can I expand the gutters in a document created with a Pages brochure template?

    How can  I expand the gutters/ space between panels on a document created with a Pages brochure template?

    You haven't said which.
    Each panel is usually just a locked object, unlock them and resize the boxes.
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  • Flash CS5.5 or CS6 creating an interactive ebook /app for IOS

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    RD

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  • APEX_040100.WWV_FLOW_API Error while creating a Interactive Report Region

    I am getting the following error while creating an Interactive report region on a page. (version - 4.1.0.00.32)
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    ORA-04065: not executed, altered or dropped ORA-04065: not executed, altered or dropped stored procedure "APEX_040100.WWV_FLOW_API" ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "APEX_040100.WWV_FLOW_API"
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    When looking at the Access view (statement below) I see that there are multiple logins per second for a user (I have seen 12 times as maximum).
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    Regards, Wouter
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