Interactive InDesign CC: Bridging the Gap between Print and Digital Publishing

by Mira Rubin

Overview

With a growing focus on digital destinations, the publishing landscape is evolving at a dizzying speed and InDesign CC is at the forefront of the digital frontier. Known as the premiere layout application for magazine and print collateral, InDesign is also a powerful creation tool for both static and interactive PDF, Flash SWF, EPUB, and apps that can be published for sale in various app stores.

This tutorial-based guide to InDesign CC provides you with a hands-on experience of the EPUB creation process, InDesign animation, Digital Publishing Suite app creation, creation of interactive PDFs, and a host of techniques that serve equally well in both print and digital production.

This extensively detailed book is filled with over 700 screenshots, explicit diagrams, and step-by-step real-world exercises to get you up and running with:

*InDesign Animation

*Buttons, forms, and other interactive elements

*Interactive PDFs

*EPUB

*App building with DPS

*The fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and GREP

*A treasure trove of trips and techniques that will forever transform your work with InDesign.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415661775
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/06/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mira Rubin is an Adobe Certified instructor in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Captivate, and has been inspiring reckless pursuit of all things Adobe in countless students since the dawn of the new millennium. Her company, Mira Images, is a Philadelphia-based Adobe Authorized Training Center and consultancy (www.miraimages.com) specializing in training, digital publishing. eLearning, and productivity-based solutions. A self-declared nerd, Mira has deep technical knowledge of and unbounded enthusiasm for the Adobe Creative Suite applications and finds tremendous joy and satisfaction in transferring that skill to others. Gifted with an ability to make even the most complex concepts understandable, she places a great emphasis on real-world'skills, best practices, and productivity tools. Mira began her formal writing career writing demo scripts for Adobe. Her first book, Interactive InDesign CS5, was published by Focal Press in 2010.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Interactive InDesign, Chapter 1: The Lay of the Land, Chapter 2: Designing for Interactivity, Chapter 3: The Interactive Interface, Part 2: Document Layout & Navigation, Chapter 4: Working with Text, Chapter 5: Multi-page Document Layout, Chapter 6: Hyperlinks and Cross - references, Chapter 7: Footnotes, Chapter 8: Creating a TOC, Chapter 9: Shapes and Color, Part 3: Buttons, Chapter 10: About Buttons, Chapter 11: Simple Image - based Buttons, Chapter 12: Multi-object Buttons, Part 4: Flash Animation and Output to SWF, Chapter 13: Introducing: Animation in InDesign!, Chapter 14: Getting Fancy with Animation, Chapter 15: Banner Ads, Chapter 16: SWF Output, Part 5: Interactive PDF, Chapter 17: Bookmarks, Chapter 18: Interactive PDF Forms, Chapter 19: Page Transitions, Chapter 20: Preparing for PDF Export, Part 6: EPUB, Chapter 21: EPUB Anatomy, Chapter 22: Images, Objects & The Flow, Chapter 23: Creating an InDesign Book, Chapter 24: HTML And CSS Fundamentals, Chapter 25: GREP, Chapter 26: EPUB Export & Publishing, Chapter 27: EPUB Resources, Part 7: Digital Publishing Suite, Chapter 28: Intro to DPS, Chapter 29: Designing for DPS, Chapter 30: Scrollable Frame Overlays, Chapter 31: Audio & Video Overlays, Chapter 32: Panoramas and Pan & Zoom, Chapter 33: Web Content Overlays & Hyperlinks, Chapter 34: Slideshow Overlays, Chapter 35: Publishing to DPS, Extras, Index