Mar 282011
 

As a companion to my series on creating Interactive documents with InDesign, I’m going to highlight some of the more interesting work being done commercially with InDesign.
The first example is Born Presents created by designers Belle & Wissell.
Born Presents is an electronic publication celebrating 14 years of Born Magazine. The sample is located in Adobe’s showcase gallery.

Image of Born Presents magazine

Born Presents Magazine by Belle & Wissell

Belle & Wissell used InDesign CS5 to create an immersive, animated publication which is both beautiful to look at and intriguing and satisfying to read. The publication makes extensive use of InDesign’s animation features to make fade-ins, pop-ups, hovers, embedded video, buttons, hyperlinks and electronic navigation.

Mar 172011
 

In part 3, I’m going to look at presentation mode and cross-references. As part 2 was a bit long I’m going to discuss buttons in a future post.

Presentation mode

The presentation mode is one of the simplest and slickest new features of InDesign CS5. It can be accessed from the last icon of tool panel, through the screen mode icon or by using the shift+w keyboard shortcut.

Screenshot of InDesign CS5 presentation mode

Screenshot of InDesign CS5 presentation mode

Your document will be displayed in full screen mode, against a solid background with the entire InDesign interface hidden.

 Posted by on March 17, 2011