Hi there!
In this video we’ll learn to add interactive page transitions to our document in InDesign,
so let’s get started.
I already have this document open with images of different sports, as it’s all nice and
colorful, as you can see, so let’s move to a different workspace.
Let’s go to window, and then workspace, and select ‘interactive for PDf’ workspace.
You’ll find the page transitions panel on the right.
You can even find it on a different tab, when you click the pages panel.
So let’s double click page 2 thumbnail to select it, because we want a transition from
page 1 to page 2, and with page 2 thumbnail selected, go to page transitions, and let’s
pick a transition, so I’m going to pick ‘push’ for this one.
You should be able to see the animation of the transition playing on the small screen,
in which it is coming from top to down, but I want it to go up instead, so let’s pick
the direction to be ‘up.’
Let the speed be medium.
Once the transition for that page is set, you’ll find this small icon next to it.
To me it looks more like a pause button.
Anyway!
Let’s double-click the third page, and then head to page transitions.
Which one should we pick for this page?
Let’s select box, and you could see how it would eventually look in the preview above.
I think I’d like to change the direction to out, so let’s pick that.
And then move on to page 4.
Pick another transition for our page 4, and let’s change the direction.
Once satisfied with the settings, move on to the last page, and pick a transition for
this one as well.
You see this small button at the bottom right corner of the page transition panel.
So once you set a transition to a page, and you want all the other pages to have the same
transition, you don’t have to manually set transitions for each page.
Just click this button, and it will copy the transitions to all the pages, but it will
be the same transitions, not different ones like we’ve chosen.
Now it’s time to export our document, so let’s go to file, and then export.
Set the location, and name as well, so I’m going to rename it ‘transitions’, and
in the format option, ensure that you pick ‘Adobe PDF interactive’, and then hit
save.
In the export screen, you don’t have to do anything, as it’s good to go already,
so just check the ‘open in full screen mode’ option, in which case, once the file is exported,
it will straight away open like a slideshow, so hit export.
Give it some time to process your document, and then it gives you this message stating
that the document is trying to open in full screen mode, because we set it so, so just
hit ‘yes’, and sit back, and enjoy!
You can use the mouse click or arrow key to move to the next slide, and the animation
that we set will be played perfectly.
Alright guys!
That concludes our session, and it’s time for a short break, so I’m going to see you
in just a bit.
Good bye!