Examples of interactive PDFs generated from InDesign

Where can I find examples of interactive PDFs generated from InDesign? I offered it as a solution to a customer and they would like to see examples. All I am finding are tutorials. Thanks!

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    I have some issues making a interactive pdf in 6 - my client wants the following (witch I cant be able to figure out how to do, or even if it is possible):
    - I have some trouble making spesial caracters in the final pdf (in this case ÆØÅ - I´m Norwegian) - how do I make these letters work?
    - Can you somehow make the date-section so that it automaticly comes out the right "date"-way when people type there?
    - Can you do the same with numbers: fields that represents a sum of money?
    - Can you add the numbers of two or more fields automaticly together, making an automatic sum? In this case prices of carparts, and adding a 25% taxes and giving the final ammount all together (ExCell-style)
    I´m using MacBook Pro 10.7.5, InDesign CS6.
    Thank you for any comments....

    InDesign can make basic PDF forms, but in your case it might be easier to take the PDF to Acrobat, and then add formats and formulas to the fields.
    I think that you should use Acrobat to fine tune the exported PDF. See http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-distributing-pdf-forms.html

  • Very strange anomaly in PDFs generated from InDesign CS5

    This is going to take some explaining, so bear with me. I have a bog standard InDesign file, same as every other file I've handled since we upraded to CS5. The file features lots of text in a 2-column format, which has been styled using a defined paragraph style sheet. On generating a PDF of the file for printing, a couple of random chunks of text (as in about two-thirds of one line in separate places) appeared to be bold. Initially, I assumed it was because they were in 4-colour black (it had that kind of appearance), but rechecking the file showed that the text was clean - the only thing was that the paragraph style applied had been deviated from slightly by the application of a different tracking value. So nothing there. As the original source of the text was a placed InCopy file, I also extracted that and viewed its XML, again, it showed no obvious differences applied to the text that appeared bold. Cleaning the paragraph style in InDesign, however, (alt shift click) resolved the problem.
    Wanting to know more, I took the PDF into Illustrator, and there the reason for the bold text became obvious. Those sentence fragments had the same letters repeated and pasted over the top three or four times. Even more interesting, if in InDesign I changed the format from 2 to 3 columns (thereby forcing the text to reflow), the PDF worked perfectly. Switching back to the 2-column format made the problem come back again.
    Now I have never seen anything like this, and I am stumped as to what might be causing it. I can't see what might have been applied to the text in InDeisgn to generate this as an outcome. Has anyone got any ideas???
    Here is a screen shot of the text in the PDF:
    And here is a screen shot of the text in Illustrator, showing the repeated characters that were tacked up to create this effect:

    I didn't need to export to INX. This happened to random lines of text, and checking in Acrobat Pro revealed the text strings were doubled.
    Nice one: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3299371 mentions this problem and the OP could solve it himself. Doesn't mention how tho'
    (No use in further googling without any more to go from -- this was one of "about 37,500 results" )

  • Is any one else have issues with interactive PDF output from InDesign CC (2014)

    I am currently trying to produce a document with a level of interactivity I have achieved many times before.
    The interactivity is just a web style menu, show/hide the menu shows button set one, clicking on those shows a second set of buttons, and clicking in one of those goes to destination page and hides all menu buttons once more.
    When output from ID CC 2014 the result is loads of missing buttons and no working menu.
    Its not a corrupt ID file. I tried a brand new empty file, recreated basic structure with simple one state buttons and achieved similarly useless results.
    If I back save using IDML and open in CS5, export from there, it works beautifully, so problem is not as many have been recently, to do with Acrobat browsers.
    If I back save and open in InDesign CC (not 2014), export from there, it doesn't work, so problem is shared there!
    Anybody any suggestions? Experienced similar and found a cure?
    SOLVED BY A COLLEAGUE:
    You can (no longer) use full stops/decimal points in button naming. Menu was hierarchically labelled as 1, (1.1, 1.2), (1.1.1, 1.1.2) etc.
    Renamed 1_1, 1_1_2 etc and all functionality has returned. Why you could and now you can't, who knows!
    Hope this helps you if you stumble across here with the same issue.

    Thank you for reporting this.
    I would consider this a bug in InDesign CC v9.x and v10.x and would report it:
    Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
    (Cannot test it right now.)
    Uwe

  • How do I create an interactive PDF file in InDesign CS6 with Folio Overlays?

    I have been trying to export an interactive PDF file using InDesign CS6. It exports fine, and all the content works except for the Folio Overlays I created. I created two Folio Overlays (one Pan & Zoom and one Scrollable Frame). The overlays work if I preview them from the Folio Overlays panel, but they do not work on the PDF document.
    I am using File >> Export... to create the PDF document, and I am sure the PDF document is of the interactive type and not the print type. Am I exporting it incorrectly? Is there a specific step that I have missed somewhere? Do I need to create a Folio Build to make the Folio Overlays work?
    When I mouse over the Folio Overlays, I get the crosshair cursor which only selects part of the image when I click and drag it.

    PDF is one thing. Folios for DPS is another. There is a little bit of
    overlap but not much.
    The interactivity in the folio overlays panel is for DPS only.

  • Previews error in Bridge on PDFs exported from InDesign

    When I export a PDF from InDesign CS5 and look at the file preview in Bridge it always reveals the two first pages of the PDF only.
    It doesn't matter how many pages the PDF really has, it always just shows 2 in the preview in Bridge. While this may sound as a problem connected to Bridge, I think it is connected to the export process in InDesign. PDFs with several pages generated with other applications are displayed with their correct page numbers in the preview in Bridge.
    I've had this problem since I first installed CS5 on my Macs.
    If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful!
    Regards,
    Eivind

    It happens to ALL my PDFs created from InDesign, and on both my Macs. I've also seen other Macs that have the same problem.
    If, however, I do change the number of preview pages displayed on the INDD file, this actually carries across to the PDFs that I export too.
    Another weird consequence is that if I open one of those PDFs in PS and save a page as a JPG, that JPG's preview in Bridge is also shown as if it consisted of 2 pages.
    I have upgraded my OS several times (it's now the newest OS X version available), and it hasn't helped. I have also cleared out everything Adobe on my Mac, preferences and all, and re-installed it – it didn't help.
    Adobe support acknowleged that it was a bug, but couldn't reproduce it so they couldn't help. Updates to CS5 has not fixed it.
    I was sort of hoping someone else here had encountered the same problem and figured out a fix, or that they could tell me if it was fixed in CS5.5.
    I thought maybe it was connected to the language settings in my OS since I've seen it on several Macs set to Norwegian, but the guy on Adobe support had a set up with Norwegian language, and apparently he didn't have same problem.

  • PDFs exported from InDesign cannot be printed

    Our Marketing Manager is using Adobe InDesign and exports her documents to PDF. These PDFs won't print in any of our printers in the office. It spools and then gets stuck and it actually makes our HP Coloured Laser Printer throw an error (error 79) and we'll have to restart the printer due to this error. We can print other documents and other PDFs in the printer so we know it's not a printer driver issue. In fact, we have isolated the problem to only PDFs exported from InDesign. Even if we create a blank document or add just text from InDesign and export it to PDF it still won't print. Really odd.
    **I also posted this in the InDesign thread but was asked to post it here too. I tried printing the document using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader with no luck. We tried printing directly from InDesign but it is inconsistent, sometimes it will print but most of the time it does not.

    Hmm. Yeah. The ID forum may be more help. Especially if it's also a problem in ID.
    My first suspect would be corrupt fonts or possibly an image file. Can you create a blank ID file with no text (maybe insert just an image or something that isn't on any of the other ID files) pdf it and print it?

  • How can I maintain multiple white spaces in a PDF written from InDesign?

    I need to have 2 white spaces maintained (within a part #) in the PDF I write, but when I open in Acrobat it converts it to one space.
    I've tried word spaces, set spaces and applying "no color" to a placeholder character and nothing is working!
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    I am talking about normal white space. Multiple fixed widt spaces are not a problem. How the space is handled in a PDF depends on how it is created.
    Viele Grüße
    Wilhelm Georg Adelberger
    Von meinem iPhone gesendet
    Am 21.08.2014 um 12:01 schrieb Peter Spier <[email protected]>:
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    I'm able to select the multiple spaces just fine in Acrobat 9 using the text touch-up tool.
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  • PDF Bookmarks - Change Default Width When Creating PDF File from InDesign

    When creating a PDF file (from Indesign CS4) I automatically create the PDF bookmarks based on the InDesign document's Table of Contents.
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    Is it possible to make a "save as pdf" button from InDesign ?
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  • Single letters dropping out in PDFs exported from Indesign CS

    We are having font issues in some of our magazine's advertisements which proved very costly last month. First let me describe the work flow.
    We designed an ad in Indesign CS then exported it using the press setting in Indesign's PDF export option. Here the ad looked and printed fine. The ad was then placed in another Indesign file which was for the layout of one of our magazines. Here the ad still looked fine on screen and when printed out from Indesign. This next step is where the font issue occurs.
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