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esbens10833188
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InDesign: Text-heavy pdf for mobile

  • December 12, 2023
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I'm designing pretty text-heavy pdf publications in InDesign. Legal and economic stuff that just doesn't convey in headlines alone. However, since most trafic these days comes from mobile, I was wondering if there's a quick fix to converting my files to a mobile friendly format? A template, an add-on or plug-in? 

 

Alternatively, a guide to how to do a mobile friendly design from scratch. 

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Correct answer BobLevine

This might help: What is Adobe Liquid Mode? | Adobe Acrobat

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Robert at ID-Tasker
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December 12, 2023

How about ePUB?

 

esbens10833188
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December 12, 2023

That's more like it. Thanx a lot, Colin.

BobLevine
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December 12, 2023

in5 is absolutely brilliant, but it's not truly responsive, either and you're going to need a website to host the content. 

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esbens10833188
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December 12, 2023

This feature seems to require that people read pdfs on their mobile devices using Acrobat Reader. How many does that? 

 

Once exported from InDesign to pdf, I publish my publications as flipbooks on Issuu, and I guess users just view it in their browser. So I was thinking more of an easy conversion of my file within the InDesign environment that allows me to have two design variations of the same document and let users decide for themselves which version to open, depending on their device.

BobLevine
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December 12, 2023

Bottom line: PDF is not a responsive format. Reader for mobile does add some capability but there is no such thing as what you're looking for. All you can do is experiment but honestly, if it has to be read on mobile, do it as a web page and be done with it.

jane-e
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December 12, 2023
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I'm designing pretty text-heavy pdf publications in InDesign.

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I've moved your post to the InDesign forum for you.

 

Jane