QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS4 Conversion Guide

Rich, Interactive Documents
Publishers increasingly need to
transform static page layouts into
interactive documents that extend
editorial content through the use of
animation, embedded video, and
sound. InDesign offers many tools
for creating interactive documents.
InDesign also tightly integrates
with Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe
Dreamweaver CS4, making crossmedia
publishing easier.
You can add interactivity to your
InDesign documents with features
such as the Buttons panel,
which lets you make rollovers and
apply actions to your page objects.
Choose Sample Buttons from the
Buttons panel menu to view a set of
predefined buttons you can use in
your documents.
of contents (Layout > Table of Contents)
can also automatically add
hyperlinked text to your document.
You can also easily import movies
and sounds—for example, MOV
and AIFF files—using File > Place.
Once placed, you can double-click
the movie or sound object with the
Selection tool to control how it will
appear and play.
You can then export your InDesign
document as a fully interactive
Adobe PDF or SWF file. Note that
exported SWF files do not include
movies or sound.
If you need to build a more advanced
interactive document, you can export
your InDesign file in the Adobe Flash
CS4 Professional (XFL) file format.
This preserves the text, graphics, and
layouts when the file is opened in
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
To export text and graphics for use
in any HTML web-authoring appli-
Other interactive features include
the Page Transitions panel, the
Bookmarks panel, and the Hyperlinks
panel (which also includes the
ability to make hyperlinked crossreference
text), all of which you can
find in the Interactive submenu of
the Window menu. Building a table
When you export a SWF file from InDesign, you can include the Page Curl
effect. This lets the viewer drag pages as though turning a physical page.
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