How to Make an Interactive PDF 1

and the reason you're watching this video is to learn about interactive PDFs so an interactive PDF is uh is a document like this it looks like web page but it's in a PDF document uh it can allow us to have different uh activities in there that we might want to use for students and this particular one was to get students to be able to analyze a movie clip and so what you can see from this is that you can embed uh video clips quite neatly uh in into one document and so then you might want to ask yourself why you would want to do one you might want to do one because you have a large investigation with embedded video or you have students with unreliable internet who can't download video now the skills you'll need to be able to do this is to be able to create a PowerPoint use slide Masters create shapes and turn those into hyperlinks and save that as a PDF an advanced skill is to be able to embed an FLV video in Acrobat Pro FV is a video type that's um made by Adobe the same company that makes Acrobat Pro extra skills that you might want to develop Beyond this how to download your own videos from YouTube or converting video files to the FLV format which is friendly for this and so um what I'm going to be doing now is turning this little presentation into a uh an interactive PDF and so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go into I'm going to click on view in our ribbon so you can see the the line of options up there and I'm going to go into slide master and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to this top one here and I'm going to insert a shape along the side down the left hand side to create what would look like a bit of a a side a sidebar on a web page and so what you'll can what you can see here is that all my text is a little bit obscured so I'm going to go and fix those on here and I'm going to go and check it out on on the other on on the other Masters that I know I'm going to be using usually it's just these two here that you can see I'm working on right now the next thing I'm going to do is put a shape on the inside of these and so these shapes here are going to become our buttons and so you can see this one here is a bit clear so I click on that go up to formatting and I'm going to change the color on the inside of that I'll make it green something that contrasts and so in here I'm just going to put blank text in here uh that I'm that I'm going to then change later on to my titles but I'm just going to put it there just so that I can have something to work with so I want to copy this first one here copy and I'm going to paste it a couple of times all right there's one and I'll line him up and I'll paste another one and line them up I know I've only got three but the beauty of working in the slide Masters is as you can see down the left hand side here whatever I do in here affects every single slide so if I go back to view and go back to normal you can see that little sidebar has ended up on every single slide of my slideshow that you can see now what I need to be able to do is turn these buttons into links between the slides so in order to do that I'm going to go back to the slide master so I'm going to click on view slide master and click on that first slide at the top so that way I can make sure I'm doing it on everything so if I'm I'm going to change this one here and the first uh text I had was why uh I know that the second slide was about uh skills needed now I'm just trying to sus out why the text doesn't want to uh why why this doesn't want me to edit the text and of course this is going to mess me around so what I'm going to do is I'm going to fix that I want to copy this one here copy and paste and I'll change that one there to skills needed this one here's going to let me do the text I'm just going to copy this one here and the last one if I remember right from Top our memory was extra skills all right so these are going to be our buttons now to make these into hyperlinks I'm going to go up to back to the top here and go to insert I'm going to click on hyperlink and just down here a place in this document so that one there was y I'm going to choose that one the second one go back to hyperlink with skills needed so I'll choose that O So Daisy you can see what it's actually done is hyperlink the um the actual text so if I press contrl Z that will undo that I got to make sure I'm actually it's the whole box I'm I'm um I'm hyperlinking there we go that's just hyperlink the whole box and this one here extra skills and so if I go back to view normal and you'll be able to see that these buttons here will work now to test it what I need to uh do is go into the actual slideshow and you'll be able to see that these work now I'm almost finished all I need to do now is save this as a PDF document I'm going to save that on my desktop and Bruce's interactive PD PDF go to here and save as PDF and click on Save and that's publishing it'll take a moment if I go to and it'll open up adobe here for me and now you can see I have an interactive PDF and all I need to do now is add video which is a whole other skill but for this video here you've just learned how to create a PDF document that behaves like a web page so um I'll make one more after this for you to be able to say how to embed video

Channel: Bruce Derby

Views: 54,904

Keywords: How, to, Make, an, Interactive, PDF, 1

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Length: 6min 34sec (394 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 22 2011