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InDesign CS5 Animated Roll Down Menu (No. 93)

Mike McHugh — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:36:04 +0000

Not for the faint of heart. This advanced interactive lesson in InDesign CS5 covers many of the interactive features of CS5. The Buttons panel, Animation, Timing, and Mult-istate Objects. We get them all working together to make a roll down menu that triggers a multi-state object. This could be very useful for many different projects with a little imagination and creativity. Don’t Forget you can follow mike on Twitter @CS_TV. Download example files from Roll down Menu_Start.indd.

InDesign Interactive Galleries (No. 89)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:50:19 +0000

InDesign CS5 has a whole bunch of new interactive features. We take a close look at how to use the multi-state objects to create a simple image gallery. We use Adobe Bridge to drage and drop or place images, we also use the new corner effects. But more importantly than that we use the ugliest arrow heads ever and copy and paste them from Illustrator cs5 to create buttons that trigger out gallery!

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InDesign Table of Contents (No. 83)

Mike McHugh — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:38:22 +0000

Learn how to use the InDesign CS5 Table of Contents feature. Its based on using Paragraph Styles to format your document. Once created the table of contents will be interactive when you create a PDF Ebook or even a .swf output. Learn how to style them and all about the options available when creating it. Don’t Forget you can now follow @CS_TV on twitter.

Web Galleries with Creative Suite (No. 69)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:13:25 +0000

Learn how to create web galleries with Adobe Creative Suite 4. Use Adobe Bridge’s Output Module to create a Web Gallery very easily. Also Use InDesign and photoshop.com to create and Interactive Flash Gallery Too. There is loads to learn in this episode that shows 3 ways to create web Galleries with no coding.

Photoshop to Flash Catalyst (no.68)

Mike McHugh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:54:51 +0000

Have a sneak look at Flash Catalyst beta 2. Take a Layered Photoshop File, open it in Flash Catalyst and add interactivity without using any code at all. Create a toggle button and a transition between 2 pages. Thanks to Cory West and the Flash Catalyst team.

Acrobat 9 and InDesign (No. 45)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:22:56 +0000

First look at Acrobat 9.0. This episode we take a file from InDesign CS3 and create an interactive PDF file. But wait Acrobat 9.0 is on the loose, and it plays very nicely with Flash, swf and flv video. Yep its all interactive creative sweet hi-jinx this week thats for sure. Why not sign up for the Acrobat 9 reader pre release and have a look here.