Interactive PDF data summary page

Is there a way to create an interactive PDF that can display a summary page of data gathered from the form field options selected throughout the Indesign'ed doc?

Maybe. But it's not going to be an InDesign issue.
Please post in the Acrobat forum. I think you'll get far more info there.

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How can I make the SWF page in my interactive PDF keep the page change on-click

Hi there,
I'm creating an interactive PDF presentation for a client, and I've spent some time learning how to animate the text for certain slides, export to SWF and place that SWF back in the InDesign file. I then export to an interactive PDF to display in full screen mode. The problem I'm having is that I can cycle forward through the PDF slides by clicking until I reach the SWF page, but then the hand cursor changes to an arrow and I can't move the presentation forward in full screen mode.
I'm sure there's an easy fix, I just can't work it out. I'd be really grateful for any help.
Many thanks
Andrew

Bob: it will be a PDF presentation fed from a laptop to a large display screen with about 50 slides (1920px x 1080px) to support a speaker (person). Most of the slides are static text or image slides, but where we want images to fade in/out we've created an SWF and dropped it into that page in InDesign.
Trevor: Many thanks, just checked that and those settings are correct.
Jeffrey: I just tried your advice but the problem remains.
The strange thing is that if I press enter each time the slides (pages) move forward properly, but any touch on the mouse and the whole thing won't move... I'm going to look to see if I can drop in other video formats instead.

URGENT indesign fails to export interactive pdf of 700 pages

Hi everyone!
This is my first time asking directly for help in the adobe forum, but god nows how many times i found good advice here before, searching for answers to rather simple AND complex questions.
My problem is:
I have a book made out of 17 files, summing a total of 706 pages.
This entire thing is supposed to be interactive - kind of a "consult on the go users manual" for in-house use at a company.
when i export the book in its total to an interactive .pdf (smallest version, 72 dpi) at about 405 pages it just stops, says that "an error ocurred exporting the .pdf file" and shuts down exporting (not the program though). (It also does not specify the error nor give an error report. it just stops and deletes the half-created pdf-file)
BUT if i export every file on its own as an individual interactive .pdf it works just fine and no problems appear.
my question now is: maybe indesign just not capable of exporting such a large interactive file? (with "only appearance" checked, it works just fine)
the larges file we did in the studio was about 350 pages long - and if i export the book in "2 sessions" (two documents of 350 pages) it takes quite a long time (about half an hour after getting past the last page) but in the end it works.
i thought about combining the various individual (working) pdf documents - but the links/buttons/etc. get all messed up.
has this happened to anybody?
does anybody know how to solve that problem - and if not, if there even is a way? at my understanding right now, it is just not possibe to export an interactive pdf of more than 400 pages from indesign.
supposedly i have to turn that document in tomorrow midday (european time) so it can be saved onto usb-pendrives for distribution... but right now i'm VERY lost.
i'd appreciate some advice, and even if it is a straight "it's not possible, too large of a document" would be nice just to get things in my head a little clearer and confront the client with what's REALLY posssible and what is simply not doeable.
THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!
Stephanie
p.s.: despite all the problems (mainly caused by outrageous client/marketing demands) nobody will ever get me hating on inDesign - just gotta looooove that program!

i ended up changing the system after talking to an adobe engineer as she told me that given the high page number and the awfully heigh number of buttons // links per page (from 10 up to 35) it seemed to be a problem for the program to process all that info. not because of the computers "strengths" but simply because of the complexity of the document.
now i ended up conserving only a few links and resolved the rest with "markers" (is it called like that in english? -> the ones that appear in the sidebar of the .pdf in acrobat and let you jump directly to the page to which they referr)
Thank you for all your support and quick answers (i didn't think it would be that inmediate!).
Definitely going to pay more attention to this forum and give a look around to see if i can help somebody too.
See you!
Steph
p.s.: i thought of that option, but at about 6-12 cross-document buttons per page in a document of 700... i didn't want to get into that mess. if the document weren't as complex it would have been the solution!

Interactive pdf without any page transition, only hyperlinks

Hi,
I wanted to export an interactive pdf but I can't lock the page transition. Is that possible to have a document which you only can navigate with hyperlinks?
Kind regards

No. You cannot control how your viewers navigate through a PDF file (thankfully!) They can always exit from full screen mode.

Interactive PDF with embedded pages/images.

Hi, all.
I am working on an interactive PDF and have a question.
It is my intention to provide an experience similar to that of navigating a website. I wish to have some hyperlinks that point to elements within the PDF file itself but don't wish those elements to be visible as regular pages of the document. Let me be more specific.
I would like for my document to contain embedded documents and images that would not be visible when viewed page by page using a PDF viewer. However, these hidden documents would be viewed once the buttons with the hyperlinks pointing to them were pressed or clicked.
Does it make sense ? I hope it does. How can this be done ?
Thank you in advance,
Joe.

Thank you again, George.
I understand you point. Preview is indeed very limited.
Since I am on a Mac I am not sure what PDF viewer, if any, comes standard with a default Windows installation. In any regard, is there a way to set a PDF file so that it bypasses the user's setting and asks for Acrobat Reader (or Pro) when the user tries to open it ? In this case even if the viewer had Preview set as the default PDF reader the document would request to be opened with Acrobat. Is there a way to set this up in the document preferences ?
I am reading about InDesign features to learn more about it thanks to your suggestions. Hopefully I will be able to set-up links/hyperlinks in a manner that allows me to accomplish my goals.
Thank you again,
Joe.

Interactive pdf first few pages show okay then they show smaller in size. Any advice?

Have tried everything. Viewed on a mac, on a pc, always the same.
Page 1,2 and 3 are fine, filling screen. But from page 4 onwards, page shows much smaller.
Really need some urgent help please, on a deadline
Any advice appreciated

For 1. and 2.: concerning PDFs, there is no "on Mac" and "on iPad". Both are mere environments in which software runs. It depends entirely on which software you are using.
There is not a single PDF reader available for the iPad that supports everything Adobe Reader can do on a modern desktop. As for your "on Mac", you don't say so but I bet you are using OS X's Preview application, which is not by Adobe and also does not support any of the more advanced functions possible in PDFs.

Interactive PDF button to export form data to separate PDF

Hi,
I'm creating a 10 page interactive PDF. One page of the PDF is a questionnaire which i've made using form fields.
I basically want the user to answer the questions in the form fields and then click a button on the page that will save that page (with the inputted data) to a separate one page PDF that they can save on their desktop for future reference.
Is this possible? My thinking is that it would be with javascript? Does anyone have an experience or thoughts on this.
My user base will just have Acrobat reader, but I have Acrobat pro to set up the interactive PDF along with indesign CC.
Thanks for your help
Ian

Not possible in Reader. You'll need to provide them with that one-page
questionnaire as a separate file. Reader can't extract pages from a a PDF
and create a new file.

InDesign - exporting interactive pdf with page curls issues

I followed a Rufus Deuchler adobe tv video called "InDesign: creating interactive pdfs with page turn and flash animations" and I was able to create an Interactive Pdf document with page culrs but it is limited to only my mac Book Air as when I sent it as an attachment (pdf) it did not work on any other PC or mac.
Have I missed the point or have I not done something as I thought the video mentioned that any adobe reader could view the interactive pdf (ie on other PCs or tablets)?
Thanks
David

Only Adobe Acrobat or Reader can show those PDFs (and many others) correctly. Are you sure that the PDF was opened in one of these 2 applications and not in Apple Preview or Ghostviewer or something else?
Only Adobe Reader 9 and X and Acrobat 9 and X can show PDFs with Flash content correctly. If you have an older version, let us say Version 8 or older, you are not able to see Flash content at all. If you have a newer version, that is Reader XI or Acrobat XI you need additional Adobe Flash player have installed on that computer and allow access to your PDFs. Can you check, if these substantial requirement are fulfilled?

Interactive PDF still opens as form

Why hasn't this problem been solved with the release of InDesign CS5?
The problem, which as been discussed in previous posts with previous versions of InDesign, is that multi-page, somewhere over 20 pages, documents exported as interactive PDFs result in displaying the purple forms bar in Acrobat. In the previous threads, work arounds have been discussed and others have decided that "living with it" is acceptable.
Come on Adobe! Please fix this. Give the user the option to export an interactive PDF with multiple pages without turning it into a form. I expect that I can create an elegant solution for my clients. I expect the same from Adobe.

Thanks Bob.
D o n
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:57:41 -0600
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Don't ask us. Report it to Adobe:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
FWIW, I'm still not sure if it's an InDesign issue or an Acrobat issue. My
money's on the latter, though.
Bob
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Understanding Sizes for Interactive PDFs

This is what I want to accomplish:
Create an interactive PDF with a page size of 1920x1280. In other words when someone opens the pdf and they select the full screen the layout they will get a page that exactly fits the screen (assuming the user has a 1920x1280 monitor), no moving left, right, up and down is possible, only possibly a next page which again will give a full screen.
So I tried to create an InDesign document using the Digital Publishing option and a pixel size of 1920x1280.
Now whatever options I try I always get the interactive PDF to open way too large.
So can anybody tell me what to do?
Again I just want to have a full screen page of exactly 1920x1280.

PDF pages are always measured in physical units (points, or 1/72 of an inch). There is no concept of a page being measured in pixels.
When you create screen-mode files in ID, it simply uses 72PPI and creates an inch-based layout. Look at the properties of the PDF file and you'll see the actual 'paper' size.
If you set the PDF's properties to open in full-screen mode, and the aspect ratio matches the user's monitor, then it will fill the screen perfectly - but all other modes it will be at the mercy of the user's display settings and hardware, because Acrobat/Reader is trying to show "100%" in inches, not in pixels.

Interactive PDF - Printing

Hello,
Using CS 4, I want to create an interactive PDF with multiple pages that have pop up notes and/or images. If the user wants to print a particular page that has these pop ups, will just that page print or will the base layer? Or will it print all pages in the PDF?
Thanks

Sure, you could do that fairly easily with just a bit JavaScript. It would have to be done by someone with Acrobat who receives the filled-in form. The text from the fields could be extracted and placed in a text file attachment that you create with JavaScript, and then extract the file attachment.
For the general methods you'd use, see:
createDataObject: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.450.html
exportDataObject: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.463.html
Another less flexible approach is to extract to a tab delimited text file: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.460.html
For this, you can specify just the fields you want to include, so you don't have to bother with all of the fields in the form being included.

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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Interactive pdf with movies/swf files doesn't work in up-to-date Acrobat Reader

Hi, I've a CS6 InDesign doc with movies (MP4's from a URL) and a few swf files. When exporting as an interactive pdf, all the links, movies, swf's work fine in my Acrobat Pro. They work fine on other peoples PC's with Acrobat Pro. But on all my clients PC's with up to date Reader, the movies are playing slow, and the pdf just doesn't work as expected. With links to next page etc not working either. They have up dated their Flash Player too. Still not working well.
Is there a magic fix? Can I re-save this pdf differently so they can experience all the interactive features properly?
I created a similar pdf last year from CS5, but adding in the movies & links on the pdf. Do I have to do this again?
Yours, mostly quite fed uply, Gina !

Is it possible that your client's PC is just a very slow machine? You might consider cutting out some of the interactivity if your PDF is to complex to be handled by less powerful machines.

How do I know if my iphone has successfully been backed up to my iTunes? I plugged it in and it said it backed up and I did a sync, but when I am looking through the summary page and I am not sure that all of my data got backed up. Please help!!

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Thank you again for all of your help!! I really appreciate it!
I think I am following -- I was able to upload to my iPhoto and all photos and videos are there that is a plus! I tried to create an Event in my iPhoto and put all of my photos in that event but for some reason, now my iTunes it not recognizing that Event in my iPhoto. It is not allowing me to import just that event at the moment but I may be doing something wrong. At least all of my pics and vids are in iPhoto so that is a plus and I know they are at least saved somewhere. Just for some reason, my iTunes it not locating the event that I created with only those photos.
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Also, I had no clue that my iCloud could be backed up via cellular data! However, is this a new feature with the most updated iOS?? Unforutnatly I am like 2 iOS updates behind because I don't have enough storage on my phone. I still get the notification that my phone needs to be plugged in and connected to wifi in order to back up to the cloud :-(
How can I sync using USB? Right now when i click on the info tab for my iPhone in my iTunes this is the answer that I get -- I am a little unclear as to what it means.
Sync Contacts:
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Sync Calendars:
Your calendars are being synced with you iPhone over the air from iCloud. Over-the-air sync settings can be changed on you iPhone

I publish a 41mb newsletter monthly into interactive pdf. It always becomes a file size of 4mb, 10% of original, when I save to pdf. This month my newsletter is 41mb and it drops to 11mb, 25% of original. I have re-sized all pictures, deleted pages separa

I publish a 41mb InDesign newsletter monthly into interactive pdf. It always becomes a file size of 4mb, 10% of original, when I save to pdf. This month my newsletter is 41mb and it drops to 11mb, 25% of original. I have re-sized all pictures, deleted pages separately, have gotten the file size down to 16mb and it drops to 7mb, 45% of original.
I have gone back and saved Feb and March and it saves to 10% of original, as it did before, and I use the same mechanism to save now.
I have gone to Acrobat Pro and optimized down to 8.8mb, but the quality is not acceptable.
What other variable is there that I haven't discovered?

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