I've been using Indesign to create some brochures. I export them as SWF to display them as a flip book.
The next step I want to take is to put hyperlinks on each product in my brochure so that when a user clicks them the item gets added to their shopping basket, or something similar.
First I tried using a hyperlink value of ?product=code, but as there's no http://, whenever you open this link it just opens a blank tab.
Secondly I tried a hyperlink value of http://linktosite.com/flipbook.php?product=code. This worked fine but as the users may want to order several products from the catalogue they're going to click on a lot of the links, which will in turn open up loads of new tabs in the browser.
My question is: Is there a way of passing hyperlink values through the same page the SWF is on? I don't want the links to open a new tab everytime.
How can I achieve this?
Indesign cs5.5 has new feature called 'web viewer'in windows/extensions/overlay creator. This let you browsing another website in indesign file.
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I have a table of urls which represent saved PDFS and are displayed in an SSRS report. I made this field clickable and the action opens the pdf in the same window which allows me to save the pdf to my desktop. But when I hit the windows back button I have to reenter the parameter.
I prefer to click on the field and it open in a new window. In fact, I would love to be able to click one button and open all the urls in a new window or at least more than one.
I can't seem to get the syntax right to even open 1 url in a new window.
Help! What is wrong with my syntax?
="javascript:void(window.open('Fields!Standard_view_PDF.Value & "', '_blank'))"
You need to tell the link that it is a file to open.
Try this instead.
="javascript:void(window.open('file:"+Fields!Standard_view_PDF.Value+"','_blank'))"
I have a multi-tab document. On my front page I would like to create a hyperlink to another tab.
This is what I've tried so far:
Create a free standing cell with the text 'Press this!'
Right click > Linking > Add Document link & point to the tab with these settings:
This has the problem of opening a new document and refreshing it (takes 3 to 5 minutes). How can I make the 'Press this!' button just switch to the target tab without opening a new document or refreshing?
There is no way to jump to a different report within the same document. The OpenDocument feature you're using does just what its name implies: opening a document (optionally specifying which report within that document to show).
In summary: this feature is not supported.
I have an interactive PDF, a catalog, where you have to click on a image to go to a specific page. All images are converted in buttons with the option "Go to destination". On Windows and Mac it works perfectly. But on iPad all the links, all the images, are not showing.
I've already read on many forums about this common problem between iOs and interactive PDF's. But I have some old PDF's, with the same principle, and those are working great on iPad. The images are showed, the links works...
That's why I'm wondering if it's not my fault or maybe I export the PDF in a wrong way.
The links to the PDF's.
m.hconline.eu/Baby%20Catalogue.pdf
m.hconline.eu/LA Catalog 2013.pdf
"Buttons" are not compatible with most pdf readers (except Acrobat reader and a few others). Such buttons are not recognized on the standard pdf reader on the iPad. I have checked the old file on the iPad, it does not work as well.
What you need to do is to use regular pdf links instead of buttons. In order to do so, you can use Acrobat Pro, delete your buttons, and create new links using the chain icon. You can specify the area of the link, so the user experience will be the same.
This is an old issue, but I did find more information regarding this. (I'd add a comment to the accepted answer, but alas, i do not have 50 points.)
According to George Johnson, "The problem with InDesign is in using the Go To Next/Previous Page options in InDesign[buttons], it creates an Execute a Menu Item action when exported to PDF, and since Reader for iOS doesn’t have menu items or interprets such actions otherwise, they are just ignored." - https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1142056?tstart=0
As for work arounds, I found a tutorial by Steve Werner, outlining the method of changing your work flow around, and adding your buttons in Adobe Acrobat instead, as kind of a post production linking process. - http://indesignsecrets.com/navigation-button-tricks-for-interactive-pdf-on-an-ipad.php
I need to individualize documents within an iOS-App. I could provide the origin-documents as DOCX, PDF, PPT etc. The output-format has to be PDF.
My minimun requirement is to fill some text-fields. Nice to have would be to replace an image, too.
I´m quite used to generate PDFs programmatically using UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile etc. But in my current case I don´t want to create the whole document programmatically, I just want to replace some content.
Any hints / tipps?
Thank you in advance.
DOCX is a zip - format file so you can process the contents programmatically and the reconstruct the zip file. PPT is a binary format though newer versions of PowerPoint might also construct zip-oriented versions that you can programmatically process. You mentioned though that you need don't want to programmatically process these documents - which I would probably also do only as a last resort.
For your DOCX origin/source documents (or doc,odt,rtf but not ppt/pdf) you could use Docmosis cloud services if your app can have the external dependency. You would upload your DOCX origin documents with placeholders for text-fields or images as a one-off/occasional task. Your iOS app then calls Docmosis sending instructions and data to create the output PDF and either stream it back to the app or email/store it or both.
The upside is it takes all the load and coding away from the iOS application (there is an SDK). The downside is it is an external depdendency. Please note I work for the company the created Docmosis.
Hope that helps.
Why not just load a page in a webView modal that points to a URL of a page you create? The main parts of the page would be static, and then the fields you need to customize would be populated via Javascript or PHP.
For example, we have a contact form in our app that gives you an option to view the details of your completed form after you submit. When the user clicks on the button to view the Contact Confirmation, it loads example.com/confirmation.php in a modal view within the iOS App.
On the confirmation.php page (on the web), I use PHP to pull in $_GET variables from the URL parameters which then populates the page with my static content, and their customized information that they entered into the form.
I'm trying to link from an URL to a specific page within a PDF document being viewed using the Preview.app built in Safari (using iOS on iPad2).
I know that Sarafi does not support (hopefully in the near future) the PDF parameters like for example:
www.mywebsite.com/information.pdf#page17
or
www.mywebsite.com/information.pdf#page=17
Which should result in the PDF being viewed on page 17 when opened.
But as we know Safari opens it at the first page instead.
However!
When I am displaying the PDF in Safari and I change the pagenumber (in the URL bar) into a different pagenumber, IT WORKS.
It jumps to the correct page, and I'm changing it again and again and it works flawlessly.
So I figured, alright maybe it's because the PDF needs to be loaded the first time viewing, so I preloaded the PDF in cache, but no succes.
How can I get it to work, so that it goes to the correct page when opening the PDF?
Is there a script for changing the page number after loading or is there a different solution?
You can find the PDF I'm talking about here:
http://www.michaelmaasdam.nl/mobile/new/pagina/begroting/begroting2012.pdf?page=14
Is this link being shown from a native app?
If so, you could opt to use QuickLook instead and you may have a little more control over this kind of thing from within that.