How to convert mulitcolumn pages to continuous single column
I've written a series of lessons for an online graphics class in InDesign, which I've converted to PDFs for posting on the standard Canvas® platform. The pages feature links, images, and highly formatted typography and some objects styles, appropriate to a beginning graphics text.
For students who don't have access to computers or printers, I'd like to convert these pages to a single column, as many periodicals do.
Basically, reflowing the text and dropping in the images with captions and relinking would do the job.
The next level would be a retaining the typography, with line breaks determined by user window settings (on mobile devices). This, given the basic text edit box in Canvas, may already be a bridge too far.
Even keeping images and captions together appropriate to accompanying text may be beyond Canvas, so is there a free service which students could access which would host and display the continuous column version?
The cherry on top would be to have edits to the original paginated ID file flow through to the single column file. (Although I can already see the demise of the page layout version if I can provide a mobile device-friendly version to my generally post-computer students.)
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