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Adobe PDF -
The Interactive Document

This session goes beyond the basics in creating a fully interactive, navigable PDF document. Topics included: creating bookmarks and hyperlinks, setting views, defining article threads, capturing web pages and paper documents to PDF, embedding multimedia, and a glimpse of PDF forms. Depending on audience interest, we may also revisit exporting/importing comments from workshop 1.

  1. Acquisition topics
    • Web Capture Options (10min)
    • Appending pages (5min)
    • Paper Capture: scanning & OCR (10min)
    • Embedding Multimedia (5min)
  2. Adding Interactivity
    • Creating Hyperlinks (5min)
    • Creating Bookmarks (15min)
    • Setting Views (5min)
  3. Refining the document
    • The Make Accessible plugin (5min)
    • Setting Text Properties (5min)
    • Moving and inserting Objects (5min)
    • Working with Thumbnails (10min)
    • Cropping Pages (5min)
    • Defining Article Threads (5min)
  4. Third-party comments
    • exporting comments
    • importing comments
    • classroom uses
  5. PDF forms
    • Creating form elements (10min)
    • Form Submission (5min)

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