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Previewing interactive PDFs

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Previewing interactive PDFs

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- [Instructor] I'm going to do something unusual here. I'm going to jump to the end of the process and talk about how to preview and export interactive documents even before I talk about how to make them. Now, while that does offend my own logical sensibilities, it's important that you understand how previewing and exporting works before you get too far. After all, you're going to want to test these features as we go along. So, there are a number of ways to preview your InDesign document to get a better sense of your page design. For example, the preview mode that you probably already know about. You just press the W key on your keyboard and now it hides everything that's non-printing. And that's nice. Or maybe the presentation mode, which is shift W. That takes over the entire screen. But the problem with presentation and preview mode is that they're not interactive. You won't get any sense of the interactivity in these modes like hyperlinks or buttons. So this isn't really going to…

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