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How to create interactive pdf for Ipad using InDesign CS6

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December 12, 2013
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Hi I created a Magazine layout using InDesign CS6 and wanted it to be viewed on native Ipad reader (but not as apps). I put interactivity features like page navigations and hyperlinks and converted it to interactive pdf. The problem was the links and buttons are not showing on Ipad.

I tried using Acrobat Pro to create the hyperlinks and this time the navigations and hyperlinks are showing. But is there a way not to create the hyperlinks manually one by one (specially the next page and previous page). If I have more than 100 pages of documents this process will be very tedious.

Is there a solution to create the interactive pdf directly from InDesign without creating the links in Acrobat?

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marychess1

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Any updates on whether Adobe Reader for iPad supports interactive pdfs?

BobLevine

Community Expert

Interactive PDF on tablets is still very much a crapshoot and very dependent on the reader app. We need more details in order to help.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Here are a couple of postings about the issues involved in creating interactive PDFs for the iPad that explains the complexity of the issue. It's just not as as easy as you would like:

Finding the Best Tablet PDF Reader | InDesignSecrets

Navigation Button Tricks for Interactive PDF on an iPad ...

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Anonymous

Hi Guys

This is Sean Smith. Marilou who wrote the original post works for me. Bob if you could point us in the direction of details you need I’ll ensure we provide the additional information as soon as possible.

M tells me she pretty much doing exactly what Steve's article suggests.

The concern is what a remarkably cumbersome process this appears to be.

Even though I believe her explanation entirely I find the problem to be highly disconcerting as it’s wasting an immense amount of valuable time and inhibiting the production process significantly.

She is producing wonderful results but via an immensely painstaking process fraught with potential for error. Each page link has to be manually linked to the next by number. It’s entirely possible to make a mistake and link to the incorrect page thus missing pages.

If she inserts a new page – guess what? All the pages links have to changed manually and double checked yet again.

If she makes a ‘Contents’ section as we do and exports the InDesign file as an interactive PDF all the contents items and links are missing and are therefore blank.

She then has to export the document as a plain PDF and do the job again in Acrobat.

For an extravagantly wealthy company with such extraordinarily expensive software I find this to be entirely incredulous.

Who is the Product Manager for InDesign?

Are they aware of this issue?

What are they doing about it and when will it be done?

Just curious are you guys paid employees or volunteers as this appears to be an official forum and we are new here?

Digital publishing of PDF magazines appears to be an explosive growth market especially for platforms such as the iPad but this primary product for the task appears to be inadequate or ill-conceived.

Is DPS a possible solution or is this more for Apps than PDF production?

Regards

Sean

BobLevine

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Moved to InDesign forum

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