CS5 Interactive PDF spreads option

I would really LOVE it, if the interactive pdf menu gave the option to turn on or off spreads. I often create books that are facing pages to be printed but then want to do a quick single-page pdf for on-screen viewing. The lack of this option is very frustrating. I know there is a work-around to turn off facing pages but this is an extra step that should not have to be taken. Please add the spread option back in!
Thanks!

There are some differences in the file structure (which I don't recall off the top of my head because my workflow doesn't involve interactive PDF). Harbs has posted the list of differences in another thread that asked what the difference is, maybe a month or so ago.

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Every time I try to save my Indesign document as an Interactive PDF, the option of either saving it as Interactive PDF or PDF is not showing.

Every time I try to save my Indesign document as an Interactive PDF, the option of either saving it as Interactive PDF or PDF is not showing.

You export to PDF, not save.

CS5 Interactive PDF - disappearing graphics and buttons

I have been struggling with CS5 - just about every interactive aspect of it anyway. I have an ebook that I just brought into CS5 from CS4. Each chapter in the book has interactive features such as buttons, anchored graphics, embedded video, html links, etc. I had been struggling with creating the interactive PDF (the whole spread thing) but fixed that with a script found in this forum (Thank You). Even still, I am struggling with random graphics and buttons that disappear off the page during pdf creation. One graphic was moved (not by design) into the bleed space of the document. All of these weird interactive bugs are just about more than enough. It is not an option to create the buttons in Acrobat... there are just too many. Anyone else have similar problems or have a solution I could try. I am close to the point of having to return to CS4 (which would suck to have to redo the edits made again).

I am sure that is true and makes very good sense for many projects.
This project is an ever evolving project... a price list that has evolved even from CS. I am in the process of creating it all new again, fresh in CS5 as a side project. Unfortunately, deadlines always push us to make do with what we can and with what we have. I was hopeful that CS5 would take away some of the pains I had been dealing with in CS4, but truly I was just uncovering more crud than I was able to work around. There will be a time when CS5 is good enough... just not today.

InDesign CS5 interactive PDF export not functioning

Hey guys, I have been starting to work with some interactive designs within InDesign CS5, mainly animations (menu fly out on mouse over, moving object on page load) . However each time I have exported my work as an interactive PDF, nothing functions, it all appears as static images. I have tried viewing in Acrobat XI, Adobe Reader, Safari.. all with the same result.
I have used the preview function to review that animation is working properly before exporting and every works flawless, it just doesn't export any of this. I have tried editing a new PDF preset and exporting that way. I have tried both "Interactive" and "Interactive for PDF" modes as well, in case that matters. I have had absolutely no luck and hope someone can find something I must have missed? Thanks for the help on this!

Animations are not supported natively in PDF files... Preview shows you just a Flash/SWF preview, not PDF preview.
Only way to use animations in PDF files is to create Flash/SWF file which includes animation(s), place that SWF to InDesign and export Interactive PDF after that.
And it´s just a work-around, not very good one IMO.... I don´t believe you can do animated menus with that technique....

Indesign CS5 Interactive PDF not really an Interactive PDF?

I have created an online Interactive SWF file using Indesign for a corporate Newsletter and it works fine.
However, when asked if I could produce a PDF version I thought "sure, just convert it to an Interactive PDF!"
I was shocked to find that it does not work and that basically I had to rip the whole thing apart and rebuild it to make it a PDF, as creating hyperlinks instead of button actions to me is not an Interative PDF, which is all it seems to infer.
All of the Object States had to be dismantled and placed on seperate pages.
None of the Buttons created to go to different pages worked anymore, I had to remove the button states from the objects and convert them using Hyperlinks and Hyperlink Destinations, a lot of work.
Surely, since Adobe own Indesign and also own Acrobat it would be possible to convert an Indesign Project to PDF and have the buttons work correctly?
Also, none of the animations work, these had to be scrapped.
Any plans for a future release to rectify this and the reduce workflow?

If you spent any time looking at these features you would have seen that they are clearly SWF only.
The workaround for this is to export the SWF and place it in a PDF.
Bob

CS5 Interactive pdf problems

When I export my book to an interactive pdf, the bookmarks generated by the TOC do not work, nor do the Index links or the cross-references. If I create a bookmark from the bookmark panel it seems to work. I heard there was a problem with this - has there been any update to correct it? I can export to a print pdf, and all the links work! However, the print version doesn't open to a page that fits the screen, and the appearance is generally not as screen-friendly as it could be. What good is an interactive pdf that isn't! Any ideas?
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I have found the answer to this problem myself!
Because the interactive setting does not support spot colours being kept it causes problems with any RGB Illustrator files that have been set up using a spot colour. You may well ask why you would want spot colours in an RGB Illustrator file. Well, it's to keep any Lab values intact, but to get around the PDF colour issue you can't have any spots used in this way.

InDesign exports to interactive PDF in spreads only

I saw a suggestion in the comments section of the CS5 help file to start a discussion--so here we go...
I've created a newsletter for print in spreads, but when I try to export to an interactive PDF, there is no option to turn off spreads. It would seem that Layout-->single page would get me what I want, but it still pops up firmly in readers spreads.
This PDF is intended for the Web, and I need it to be single page for those who want to print it--it's a real devil to try to print a tabloid-size page onto letter-sized paper.
Eugene Tyson recommended changing the document setup to turn off facing pages--but, as he said, that can present other problems.
I saw that this would probably not be considered a bug--well, how about considering it a simple error? Please fix this, Adobe!
Melody

Discussed in depth here along with solutions:
http://indesignsecrets.com/interactive-pdf-from-indesign-cs5-always-has-spreads-on.php
Bob

Hyperlinks are not working in Interactive PDF in InDesign CS5

Hi, I have a book that I previously in CS4 exported as interactive pdf, with Hyperlinks and buttons. Now in CS5 When I export it as Interactive PDF, the Hyperlinks don't function anymore (there are hyperlinks in the TOC to link to specific pages in the book) - if I export as Print PDf the hyperlinks funtion well, but the buttons no longer function (prev. Page, next page and so on) Any suggestions?

The process is as followed:
Insert a 'Text box'
Wrote Wesport in Text Box
Highlighted the word Wesport, right clicked and selected the hyperlink option
Selected the option to inset a website link
Pasted the whole link and pressed ok
The hyperlink then was shown in the document blue with an underline
Then selected the Adobe Printer through the Print option
The PDF was then created but hyperlinks did not work.
Hope thats is enough detail let me know if you need any more.

InDesign CS5 Book to Interactive PDF

Hi all,
Now in InDesign CS5 there is a more convenient option under File > Export... to make interactive PDFs with links, buttons, etc.
In exchange, in the traditional PDF Presets export workflow there are some changes, in the dialog box. Now there is an option "Interactive elements" and two options: "Export appearance" or "Not include".
That means that when I am dealing with an InDesign document with buttons, if I choose to make the PDF with the traditional way, I have to choose either if preserve just the appearance of buttons (but they no longer work) or just exclude them. OK...
Then I use File > Export... and choose Interactive PDF, then everything it's just OK.
BUT.... I am making an InDesign CS5 Book, where every file involved has buttons. In the Book window, I can export the whole book to PDF, but using the old-fashioned way that either includes just the appearance of buttons or excludes them! I'd like to export my Book into a fully interactive PDF
So what can I do? or what am I missing?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Ignasi

When you choose to export the book out of the ID Book file, choose Interactive. The same settings come up as exporting the interactive PDF out of the individual ID file.

PDF Spreads to Single Pages, and specify view options

I have a large InDesign document set up in 8.5 x 11 spreads. I need to export to PDF as single pages but also specify the page view as "fit to page."
If I use the Print options I can get the single pages, but can't seem to specify the page view. If I use the Interactive options I can specify the page view, but everything exports as spreads instead of single pages.
Am I missing something here?

Maybe I spoke too soon. The script solved the problem of the spreads, but it created another one. Now, when I use the "Interactive PDF" dialog box and specify the page view, none of the page links in the index work. They are there, the cursor becomes a "hand" when hovering over the page numbers, but when I click it doesn't go anywhere. If I use the "PDF to Print" dialog box and check the Hyperlink box, the links all work, but I don't get to specify the page view.
The script apparently does something to the page identification so the link doesn't carry forward properly from the individual book documents to the new single PDF that is created
BTW, I'm using InDesign 7.04 on a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5 iMac running 10.6.8, with 12GB of memory.
Color me frustrated. My job deadline is tomorrow, and I thought I was on target to meet that with no problem. After laying out 2000+ pages, I thought the PDF would be a simple no-brainer, but it seems to be the show-stopper.

How can I view just one spread at a time of my interactive PDF?

Hi,
Apologies of this has been asked before.
I am creating an interactive PDF of a magazine, to be viewed online.
I would like to be able to 'flip' through the spreads one spread at a time. I do not want to be able to scroll down.
I do not want to use SWF for various reasons (viewing on ipad etc)
When I open the magazine online it displays like this (one spread below the other) Is there a way for the spreads to be 'stacked' so I can only see one at any one time?
Thanks
Ben

Hi Ben,
You might want to create a pdf portfolio and check.
Regards,
Rave

HELP! CS5.5 Crashes When Exporting as Interactive PDF

I just finished an 85-page document that needs to be exported as an interactive PDF but when I export it, InDesign CS5.5 crashes as it gets to page 84 every single time. This has happened with other CS5.5 documents but when packaging the files instead.
I have already tried resetting the preferences (via the Cmd + Ctrl + Opt + Shift (Mac) method) but to no avail. The document crashed again.
I have also tried saving it as an .idml file and resaving as an .indd file but still, the crash.
Then recently, I received this error message for the very first time: "Adobe InDesign is shutting down. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents."
I saw the "Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences" thread but am confused as to what I need to delete vs. rename or move.
I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.8 and running InDesign CS5.5 7.5.0.142.

Please upload the crash report to http://pastebin.com and post a link here.
I saw the "Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences" thread but am confused as to what I need to delete vs. rename or move.
It's teh same as the vulcan nerve pinch you tried -- I assume InDesign prompted you to delete preferences and you said OK.
What happens if you create a new document and Pages (panel) > Move Pages pages 1-83 to the new document, and then recreate 84 and 85 by hand? Does it work? Presumably this is document corruption of some sort.

InDesign CS6 and CS5.5 Export to Interactive PDF

Hi Guys,
I am having this huge problem when I tried to export 124 pages including links, buttons (show/hide) and video (mp4) to interactive PDF. However when I tried to use CS5.5 to export, it stops at page 98 and prompts an error that say cannot be exported. In CS6, it managed to pass the page 98 but hangs at page 123 till I got to force quit it.
I am able to export in pieces but not as a whole and I believe that it could be a memory or ram issue which is beyond my control.
This is the first time I have encountered this issue. Anyone have solutions for this?
Mark Plunkett

I manage to combine them in Acrobat X and the links worked, I was happy but for a while. When I tried to save the combined PDF, same thing happened, it just keeps optimizing running at 100.3% of the resources. What I have noticed using my Activity Monitor in Mac is that InDesign renders it using 1GB or Ram while Acrobat only uses 380MB of Ram when I have 8GB of ram available in my Mac. More the reason why InDesign should have gone into 64-bit in CS6, but was dissapointed it did not.
I found the cause of the rendering issue, it is not so much about the vector or image size (it does play a part though), it is because I was using too much Show / Hide functions in the Buttons Panel. There seem to be a limit to how much you can use and on how many pages you can have them. I was doing a "Drop down menu" in the PDF with this particular function, each page have about 40 Show/Hide buttons, and there is a total of 124 pages. That is what caused it not to export out successfully, when I removed the buttons, it worked after waiting for 40 minutes of exporting the file, not very happy it took so long, however it got exported.
I think that both Acrobat and InDesign developers should start looking into able to use Scratch Disk or let the users optimize more Ram to the usage of the software.
Forgot to mention that this only worked in CS6, not even close in CS5.5

Indesign CS5 - png images blur in interactive PDF

I use CS5 to create client documents and beginning to learn how to make PDF documents interactive. We use .png files which export to PDF (print) with no problem either on screen or when printed, but when the same file is exported to PDF (interactive) the images are blurred both on the screen and when printed. The png files are created in Photoshop. Does anyone know how I can solve this problem and have sharp images in interactive PDFs??? I'm hoping its something basic and easy!

Hi Eugene
Many thanks for your suggestion. I've tried it and it works and glad it was something simple
Cheers
Elspey

Interactive PDF meltdown with InDesign CS5

Howdy,
I've just switched from InDesign CS3 to CS5 and I was creating interactive PDF's for my portfolio.
I work as a retoucher and all I was doing was making an image change from the "before" to the "after" image when the cursor rolledover the image. Easy-peasy job done.
For some unknown reason, when I now open my images in Acrobat, the images are terribly pixelated and the rollovers do not work.
It seems the images have to be at 300dpi, whereas before I can downsample them a little to reduce file size and still get a creditable "before" and "after" pic.
Now it's just a mess mith a massive file size! This seems to have happened all by itself and it's gone into meltdown!
Any ideas welcome

Rollovers are currently not working properly, we expect a fix shortly.
InDesign's PDF export system does not have any connection to Acrobat, so your main question needs to be posted on the InDesign forums.

CS5 Interactive PDF spreads option

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