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As we all move away from the notion that the printed version of a document is the definitive one, Adobe’s PDF format becomes more and more important. InDesign itself allows you to generate PDF documents; you don’t need a separate copy of Acrobat for this purpose. In addition to creating the PDF, InDesign add interactivity to it, thus enhancing the user experience of anyone who browses your PDF. To ensure that the various interactive features are included in the PDF file, you must remember to activate the “Interactive Elements” option in the Export PDF dialog box.

As we all move away from the notion that the printed version of a document is the definitive one, Adobe’s PDF format becomes more and more important. InDesign itself allows you to generate PDF documents; you don’t need a separate copy of Acrobat for this purpose. In addition to creating the PDF, InDesign add interactivity to it, thus enhancing the user experience of anyone who browses your PDF. To ensure that the various interactive features are included in the PDF file, you must remember to activate the “Interactive Elements” option in the Export PDF dialog box.

Tables of contents are to be found in many documents and act as a roadmap enabling the user to quickly find a particular section of the document. The ability to create tables of contents automatically is a useful facility found in most word processing and desktop publishing (DTP) programs. The mechanism used by most programs for generating the table of contents is what we might call style-tracking; one or more styles are designated as being associated with the table of contents. When the table of contents is created, all text in the designated style(s) is added to the list of items, usually with the appropriate page number next to it. In this article, we will look at how this feature is implemented in Adobe InDesign.