Adobe InDesign Interactive Digital Publishing: Tips, Techniques, and Workarounds for Formatting Across Your Devices

This book is written for graphic designers, book designers, and publishers who want to expand their knowledge for laying out and formatting documents and eBooks deployed for screen viewing on computers, tablets, and smart phones.

The book covers how to add interactivity to reflowable and fixed layout eBooks, interactive PDF documents, and take advantage of Adobe’s new Publish Online (Preview). Tips, techniques, and workarounds offer you a comprehensive view at adding interactivity to any kind of document and deploy them on social media and web sites.

Learn essential skills for composing documents in Adobe InDesign, how to work with styles, format text and graphics, work with rich media, create multi-state objects, hyperlinks, and animations.

What You’ll Learn

• Setting up documents for interactive digital publishing
• Creating Animations in InDesign
• Creating and working with Multi-State Objects
• Creating video masks and working with rich media
• Hosting interactive documents on Facebook and other social media sites

Table of Contents

Part I: Fundamentals of Digital Publishing
Chapter 1: Understanding Digital Publishing
Chapter 2: Getting Started in InDesign

Part II: Creating Documents in Adobe InDesign
Chapter 3: Formatting Text
Chapter 4: Working with Graphics
Chapter 5: Creating Tables
Chapter 6: Creating and Applying Styles

Part III: Adding Interactivity
Chapter 7: Creating Hyperlinks
Chapter 8: Working with Animations
Chapter 9: Changing Object Views with Multi-State Objects
Chapter 10: Using Rich Media

Part IV: Publishing Documents
Chapter 11: Uploading and Downloading Files
Chapter 12: Creating Reflowable EPUBs
Chapter 13: Creating Fixed Layout EPUBs
Chapter 14: Discovering Adobe Publish Online
Chapter 15: Creating Interactive PDF Files

Part V: Tips and Techniques
Chapter 16: Tips for Creating Digital Publishing Documents
Chapter 17: Additional Project Ideas