issuu: creating an interactive PDF

I'd like to introduce to a website called issue here we go is Suu calm and this is a website that allows you to turn a regular PDF document into an interactive magazine so if I just demonstrate by clicking on this magazine here so this has been uploaded by somebody else I can I can just click here to just browse through the magazine I can click here to I'd see it at a larger size I can also use this um navigation menu down here in order to look through the magazine and then if I want to I can actually go in and see things in greater detail so I've created my own account and I'm now going to go to my library and we can see for want of a better word my magazines so these are all things that I've already published and what I'd like to show you now is how to publish your own document so I currently have a word document it's here I'm just going to open this up and the first thing I need to do is to turn it into a PDF this website only recognizes PDFs but creating PDFs are very simple I'm just going to go to file and I'm going to go to save as and then in this drop down menu here I'm just going to select PDF and I'm going to save it to my desktop just so that I can find it easily so I'm just going to hit save okay so now um I've created a PDF document and you can see here so this is just a Word document changed into a PDF this there's nothing unusual about it as such so now I am going to go back to issue and I'm going to upload that I'm going to upload the PDF that I've just created so just going to browse and select this CPD opportunities PDF and I'm going to call it CPD for tuna cheese and just this and that College I'm going to put in some key words here separate them with a comma and then I'm going to select the type of document and I'm going to select manual or resource a category going to go for knowledge and resources language English the world right now ordinarily I would just click here upload the file but what I found in the past is by doing so it doesn't always load it properly so I'm going to try this simple upload here and I'm just simply going to browse for it again it's going to keep all my other settings so here we go CPD opportunities open and upload okay so now that document is simply being uploaded from my desktop - my issue account ok and you can see how incredibly quickly that is so I can't access this right now it's being converted but within the within a couple of minutes I'm going to be able to see the final thing so while that's happening let's have a look at which we have a look at let's go to the back to the homepage and we can see what other magazines are going on so this is also interesting you can actually see a graph of how many views you've had of your public publication let's just click on this one here and see what what other people have been doing so now there is something else that's very interesting as well you can you can search so I'm going to do a search for Barnet and see what else has been uploaded and what you can see is that Barnet Council have also been using this as well as so it's included stuff from pilot council and then also stuff from Planet College so I'm going to go back to see how my upload is doing so I'm going to go back to my library and here we go so this is the document that I've just uploaded I'm going to click open and click into read so I can now click and move around this document like so and I can also move backwards and forwards and you can see that even though there aren't many pages to this document I still have the ability to quickly go through scroll through using this menu system okay and that is the end of this tutorial

Channel: BarnetElearning

Views: 67,682

Keywords: word, PDF, Barnet

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Length: 6min 18sec (378 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 11 2011