InDesign CS4 Exporting to Flash

CATEGORIES: InDesign, Tutorials, Video Tutorials | AJ Wood | September 23, 2008

Adobe instructor A.J. Wood shows viewers how to export a Flash presentation from InDesign CS4. This page presentation will include hyperlinks and buttons, created with the buttons panel in InDesign, whose action will be to move through the pages of the presentation once it has been exported to Flash.

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very cool and easy! great tutorial…

Comment by Aline | September 30, 2008 @ 10:45 am

Wow! What a great presentation. Now I know I really NEED InDesign CS4.

But some questions since I don’t have the $ to buy the entire CS4 suite:
Can the user zoom in & out – without improvising it in Flash?
Can I create links anywhere on the indesign page, such as ads or text in a publication?
Thanks!!

Comment by DMurray | November 8, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

Thanks for the comments!

DMurray – In answer to your question, Yes, you can create hyperlinks out of any object on the page. There is not a zoom control built into the flash presentation, but the user could right-click and zoom the file in the browser.

Comment by A.J. Wood | November 8, 2008 @ 6:55 pm

Wow! This could be a very powerful tool for proofing documents.

My question is can a standard 3 panel roll fold brochure created with Adobe Indesign be exported to Adobe Flash to show the folded brochure unfolding each panel by using arrows? Thanks for your help.

Comment by K Baird | November 13, 2008 @ 10:18 am

Does anyone know if it is possible and if so how can I get the swf file to automatically scale to the users screen so it shows all the document at a good size on different size monitors?

Comment by Luke | February 19, 2009 @ 7:42 am

There are two issues:
1. How can the user increase the text size?
2. you can only print one page at a time, how can you print the entire document?
Thanks

Comment by carole stull | March 12, 2009 @ 10:48 am

Hi!

Thanks for the demonstration! It is great!

My question is, Can I import this to a Existing Flash document. I am doing my portfolio on flash and I have many of my works done in Adobe Indesign CS4. This would be a great feature to add to my portfolio.

Comment by Marina Carlstein marina.carlstein@cortland.edu | April 17, 2009 @ 1:20 pm

Hi there, thanks for the tutorial. How can I add audio to this type of presentation?

Comment by kate | September 14, 2009 @ 12:19 pm

how can you make a *.exe file from the *.swf file

Comment by john van der heiden | January 12, 2010 @ 6:15 am

how do you add a page to zoom and a hand tool to move the page around for user interactivity?
thanks

Comment by Liz | February 26, 2010 @ 7:55 am

Coudn’t get it to work at all.

I clicked on normal in the button panel. The arrow appeared, but the button icon on the actual master page did not.

Clicked on rollover, and then clicking on a color in the swatches had no effect at all.

I created my own document. I tried this over and over. I followed the instructions as exactly as I could. None of it worked. Nothing but frustration.

Comment by Michael Igoe | March 4, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

I just hate this. I have tried over and over. I started with a new document and it JUST DOESN’T WORK.

I’m in the button panel, I click on normal in state appearance, I can see the arrow in that panel, and IT DOESN’T BECOME A BUTTON. I’m so sick of this.

Comment by Michael | March 4, 2010 @ 3:19 pm