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Full-screen page transitions

Full-screen page transitions - InDesign Tutorial

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Full-screen page transitions

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- [Instructor] You may have noticed that I've almost completely avoided talking about one of InDesign's interactive panels. I'll go up to the window menu, choose interactive, and then choose page transitions. I did say earlier that I rarely use this panel, but now I need to tell you why. This feature does just what you'd expect, it lets you add transitions from one page to the next, like dissolves and wipes and so on. But these page transitions have a dark side. You see, page transitions only work when you're in full screen mode in Acrobat. And I guess that's not bad, but it's a frustrating limitation, because I almost never want my PDF to take up my whole screen. With that said, this is useful for things like slideshows or kiosk displays or that kind of thing. So here's how to add a page transition. First, choose what page you want to apply the transition to. I'm on page one right now, so this is going to be changing the transition into this page, whenever I jump to page one. Next…

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