Indesign Interactive Pages

In this studio session we took an existing album cover and using its typography we attempted to copy it while also turning the Indesign document into a interactive PDF. The task was to teach us how to use Indesign and its different techniques.

This is the album cover where I copied its typography. Once the word is on screen it is just a case of changing its width, height and spacing between each character to match up the original word. The exercise has taught me to change text very precisely by editing the number of pixels than just dragging the letters to any size.

 
Here I learnt how to set Indesign to create its own contents page on it own as you create new pages to work with. This technique is part of the interactive PDF as also when this is done in the PDF the different pages on the contents can be clicked to go straight to that page.

This page was created so I had something to use for making the contents page. Basically what happens is once this page has been named a title and has a page number it is automatically inputted into the contents page.

This last step I learnt was how to import a video into Indesign and then have it playing when the interactive PDF opened. Additionally I was showed how to bring up a control panel for the video while it was in the interactive PDF so the viewer could play, pause and fast forward the video.

Altogether I did learn how put together a interactive PDF using Indesign and I know the knowledge sunk in but I do agree that I struggled with a couple of elements to this lesson. First I found it hard to match the albums typography up with the original and secondly I got lost during the different steps to input the control panel into the video. But other than that I am more familiar with the software Indesign.