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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat

109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat

We all know that, just about every great looking PDF started out as an InDesign file. And a lot of you may also be familiar with adding additional interactivity within Acrobat. Like here we have a beautiful flavored oils order form, to which, Claudia McCue one of the other instructors here at Lynda has added a number of, detailed fields and calculation fields. Now even though InDesign CS6 can do form fields, earlier versions of InDesign could not. All this would have had to been done in Acrobat, but even in InDesign CS6, and CC, they can't do calculation fields. So all this stuff would've had to have been in Acrobat. Now the point is, what if you needed to make a change to this form? If I went back to InDesign, and say for example I needed to, make this logo much larger because the art director said, it's too boring this way. So I'm just going to, scale it really large, and I'll send it to the back, with Arrange Send To Back. And well that's, too obtrusive. Let's reduce the opacity…

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