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I know you’re asking, “Why are you showing a screen shot of an iPad book? I’ve seen that commercial a billion times already.” Well, that’s not an iPad book. That beauty was created in InDesign!
My day-job is writing operator’s manuals for outdoor lawn equipment, and we use Adobe InDesign to create our manuals. We subscribe to an ancient tradition called “print media.” Depending on how much History Channel you watch, you’ve probably never heard of it. Anyways, I was at an InDesign Secrets Seminar last week (thanks, job!), and the secret of page turning with InDesign was spilled! You’re probably thinking it’s pretty hard to add page turning to your PDFs, right? Nope! Just Export the PDF and select the checkbox next to “Interactive Page Curl.”
Unfortunately, in order to incorporate the feature into your PDFs, you have to turn the PDF into a Flash file. (I say unfortunately, because I have never had a good experience with Flash, but that’s my own deal. I mean really, who likes “Punch the Monkey” ads?) This Flash format means the file won’t open on your iPad or miniPad (sorry, but I’ve been waiting FOREVER to make that joke about the iPod Touch). Here’s the Hefner Zoology Museum brochure we created at Miami in its full page turning glory with a little bit of touch up for digital use. If you think I should bring the page numbers back to the outside of the edges and move the “Previous Page” and “Next Page” buttons to the middle, I won’t disagree. And one last note: when I was exporting the file to Flash, I noticed that InDesign has a project status bar on the Command-Tab screen for Mac OS. Notice the purple ID box with the blue status bar running across the bottom.
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