Layers of interactions
I'm creating a training program and I have situation where I have a slide with 3 buttons. Clicking on a button will open a screen with specific information. On this new screen is an image that I want learners to click on to see additional information. Essentially I'm talking about 3 layers of information on one slide. I'm storyboarding this in Powerpoint and I don't think I'll be doing the development work myself. I don't know who the developer will be so I don't have someone local that I can ask. Is what I'm describing possible in Captivate? I think we'll be using Captivate version 6.5 or 7. Thank you in advance for any help or advice.
6.5 never existed as a version. Hope you do not try to achieve your goal
using imported ppt-slides because that will not works. Start from scratch
in CP, then is is not that hard with variables and advanced actions. Have
lot of examples on blog.
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Button hierarchy on layers in interactive PDFs
Hi,
we recognized a flaw in the display of interactive buttons within interactive PDFs:
We created a document with several buttons, that are mentioned to display other hidden buttons, when clicked. The problem is that even when the layer of the button, that are invisible when loading the page and are visible when clicking on the other button, is above the layer of the button to click on, the other button is displayed in front of the button that should appear in front of it. Most buttons appear on top of all layers when clicked once. Is there a way to avoid this?
Thanks a lot for any suggestions.
Regards,
PhilippThe way the PDF specification was written, interactive elements always appear above all other content. It has nothing to do with what you're doing in InDesign. You'll just have to work around that fact in your design.
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As far as I know, Jobs was putting all his eggs into HTML5, so you probably want to see how he and the rest of the team are coming along with that spec (estimates are between 3 to 10 years for a final spec release). I believe you'll need to learn a number of other things (css, javascript, jQuery, ajax, etc) to make it all work together to mimic what it can of a Flash version.
As far as video goes... http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/225701855?subSect ion=News
(Yeah, you're less likely to get positive/useful feedback in a Flash forum... try a Mac forum, better yet, an iPad forum)
Any help much appreciatedHi Mitchell,
I'll try to help you answering few questions. I'll be short now because dinner is almost ready.
My background and experience is web/print designer, but I have been researching and studying iPad since the original is out (I got iPad and iPad 2). I work in Windows environment, I actually embrace the iPad situation.
Ok, basically you want to have "interactive presentations including graphics and video content" for client?
The best answer for that at the moment is: HTML5, jQuery/JavaScript, and CSS. I am sure with those 3 can get something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc3fghSJvBM
That's actually an app. Obviously native App has some advantages over WebApp. Take a look at how Google tackle the iPad with its webapp. Lots of great example. Google uses a lot of jQuery in a smart way.
Maybe soon Adobe products will adapt and utilize more HTML5 for iPad. Maybe Flash would eventually go to iPad, who knows.
I actually manage to live "without Flash" and be more efficient with presentation. Less bling and splashy interaction, but still manage to give a "new" experience. I would probably ask the client to wait a bit. Study the available interactive magazines (Wired, GQ, Victoria Secret etc) and websites that utilize only HTML5, jQuery, and CSS to get that "Flash" feel.
There are really awesome Flash websites over the last few years, before iPad came along. We have gone almost "too much" with what Flash can do in term of giving interactive and layers and layers of interactive eye candies UI. Maybe it's time to be more efficient. Save the pixels for what really more important.
Anyhow, try a simple hack: use and experiment Splashtop app or similar app that allow mirroring of PC/Mac into the iPad. This way, you could have Flash on your iPad, as long there is a connected PC/Mac via Wi-Fi.
Try also presentation viewer for iPad, from Prezi.
Remember one thing: It does not have to be the iPad. We know iPad is cool, but if other tables (Android tablets) can actually view Flash and the experience is fine, then go for it. My opinion: Flash is not yet for multi-touch experience.
Tablet revolution is still really young, so, it's time to experiment. -
When making a PS file in InDesign and Distilling it later I run into a problem: although the document is 190.5 cm x 190.5 cm, the final Distilled PDF is about an A4 big. I get the message that violations have been found in the document, but I don't know what goes wrong. It used to work just fine with the same settings and now it doesn't...
The violation I get is this:
[Violation] Neither TrimBox nor ArtBox was found on the following pages:
Can anybody help me please?It's been a long time since I printed anything to postscript (no need to do that any longer if you have Acrobat installed -- print to the Adobe PDF virtual printer, or use Export to PDF instead and keep your live transparency and layers and interactive elements and...), but I seem to remember you need to set up a custom page size and select it when you print something odd like this.
Peter -
Current situation:
A recored App Layer cannot be managed in any way. Any recorded data, including garbage, will be part of an App Layer.
Feature request:
Have the possibility to cleanup the App Layers by interacting with the actual captured data.
Something like a ThinApp Capture folder where we can remove unneded data like MSI installer backup files, other temporary data, etc.
Best Regards,
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Refreshing a photo in iMovie after editing it.
I built an image sequence in iMovie, but would like to go back and fix some flaws in some of the photo's. I right-click on an image, select "Reveal in Finder", and then fix and re-save the image over the original with Photoshop. The copies in iPhoto are changed (iPhoto is where I dragged the images from into iMovie originally), but how do I get the photo's in iMovie to refresh and reflect the changes without manually deleting and replacing them?
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The preview is a losslessly compressed full colour bitmap, updated at each time of saving, representing the then-current combined appearance of the "layer stack" as seen within Elements.
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How can I lock an External Style Sheet
I'm an experienced programmer, but a newbie with DW. I would
like to develop a handful of global style sheets to control the
look and feel of my site. However, it appears that if anybody
(including myself) edits a layer which is based on a global style
or ID (e.g. by dragging a border, intentionally or not) that they
can easily affect all pages attached to that one CSS. Is there any
simple way to prevent this from happening?> As to #2: After 3 days of Dreamweaver tutorials, I took
a design for the
> front page, developed by a graphic artist, and in one
day's work developed
> a
> strictly-CSS implementation using 7 non-overlapping
layers
Text in layers is a big problem - you know? When the text is
resized in the
browser (and it will be), it will cause the layers to grow
taller. Because
layers cannot interact with other page elements, when they
grow taller, they
overlap one another, and other page content. You wind up with
a big mess.
> simple static HTML which would then combine with the
same style sheets to
> place
> new content in the same layout, every week.
Heck - just make the content of each of those regions (we
still worry about
them being layers) come from server-side includes, or better
yet, from a
database. That way, you are totally safe.
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"Fletcher James" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Responding to Walt:
>
> Murray answered #3.
>
> I will answer #1. I am designing a website for a weekly
newspaper. We
> will
> add 25-30 articles each week. Each article will have a
presence on the
> front
> page, and appear in full on a page of its own. There
will be a number of
> other
> specialized page types, which might have multiple
instances sharing a
> layout,
> but different from the "article" structure. My thinking
was to
> encapsulate
> each particular layout in a stylesheet which would be
"global" to those
> pages
> using it, and then to encapsulate more-commonly-shared
styles in a
> site-wide
> global .css.
>
> As to #2: After 3 days of Dreamweaver tutorials, I took
a design for the
> front page, developed by a graphic artist, and in one
day's work developed
> a
> strictly-CSS implementation using 7 non-overlapping
layers. I think it's
> a
> completely intuitive paradigm for someone with a
programming background,
> although there are a number of eccentricities to be
mastered. The page is
> still a prototype, but I know that I could write a
program to generate
> very
> simple static HTML which would then combine with the
same style sheets to
> place
> new content in the same layout, every week. And, I can
get a skilled web
> designer to tweak the layout and typography, and make it
look a lot
> sweeter
> than I ever could!
>
> As to your closing comment: I think the answer is
implicit, above.
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Converting Simple Indesign AppleScript to Javascript
Hi,
I have been using as imple Indesign AppleScript but need to convert it to javascript and have no prior experience. I've been reading the Adobe pdf about scripting and it is great as it shows the differences between the 3 (as, js, vb) but I'm still having trouble figuring out how this would conver. Would anyone be able to show me the converted result?
AppleScript:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
tell every document
set visible of layer "Interactive - Web" to true
set visible of layer "Interactive - Print" to false
end tell
end tell
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var myDocuments = app.documents.everyItem(); // something like this?
It hides/shows the visibility of 2 specific layers for all opened documents. I pretty much need to hide/show 2 specific layers ina book and this should/can accomplish that.
Thanks for any help!This should work:
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I have an imported photoshop 3d object which on its own behaves as it should.
But, when I place it in front of other layers (2d in 3d space) I can see the other layers through the photoshop 3d layer. They are all behaving in space as they should, apart from the fact that the photoshop layer seems to be made of glass (which it isn't).
I can't for the life of me work out what I am doing wrong.
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Or is all of this impossible because I'm using a PS 3d object?
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Does Safari support interactive PDFs with layers? Through the use of hidden layers and buttons we built in interactivity that allows the viewers to click on buttons to display different content. When I view the PDF in Safari 5.0.3 on my Mac OS 10.5.8 the PDF displays fine and the interactivity works. However our web design firm tell me the PDF displays all the hidden layers when they view it in Safari. Who's right?
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I have designed an interactive pdf - not for the web. I have a problem layering out a page. On the page there are 6 buttons. Each button when pressed will bring forward a box containing content/information. When I designed the page using indesign cs5.5 I made sure the largest box of information was at the top of the layer. I thought this would be the cleanest way to present the page. By having the largest content box (each of the six content boxes are different sizes) at the top it would cover the other boxes. When I exported the file out the smallest box was at the top, then the secondest etc. It looks pretty messy.
Is there a way to ensure that the lagest content box is at the top when it exported to pdf????
RegardsHave patience!
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We like to give our editors access via inCopy in our inDesign DPS files.
As I understand; text, like images is displayed in the Links panel.
Is it already possible to have inCopy CC assigned text in the interactive DPS layers?
All help welcome!I was able to use InCopy with a text frame that was incorporated into a scrolling frame overlay, but it seemed a bit "wonky" with formatting. (Formatting was lost between InCopy edit and InDesign.) My guess is that it should work in an MSO as well, but I didn't have time to test that theory.
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I've always been frustrated at the fact that dynamic text and
images pulled into flash have not been able to be spidered by the
search engines.
So, with a client site I'm developing, I'd like to try
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buttons that when clicked, open up the flash and create a blank
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I might not be explaining myself very well, but for anyone
following what I'm sayinig, has this been done before and does
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Cheers,
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The only other way I know is to select all the frames, copy frames, insert a new movieclip and then paste frames. This usually results in centering everything and you might not like that.
If you want to avoid that you should include a background layer the size of your stage. And then you can edit multiple frames, stretch the range makers to cover the entire thing, select all, and adjust the upper right corner to where you want it. (Assuming that you don't have things off stage.
Of course the best thing to do would have been to just made them all as movie clips from the beginning. Either in one FLA or in individual FLAs. So chalk it up to live and learn. -
Rollovers work until you have a rollover go over one of the hotspots, then it renders the hotspot useless unless you refresh page.
This used to work until I updated Edge Animate, is this a bug or do I need to do it a different way now?
Please see here.
http://acorn.willowmarketing.com/aero-dev/products/conestoga-xp/Hi,
You've right. It comes from current version: Edge Animate CC 2014.1.1
Trigger @0 is buggy.
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