Hi, I’m an instructional designer working on an eLearning program that requires designing an interactive PDF for a sales course. Can you suggest how I can design an effective interactive PDF course?
Agree with the video thing. And with so many PDF readers, you never know if they would support the video. The other day I opened the video in Chrome, but the video was reflecting only as a thumbnail. Couldn’t play it. Don’t want things like these to happen when you share them with the learners or clients.
You can add links, buttons, simple animations, and videos to the PDF. But I am against adding videos as it has tons of issues. Especially with Flash out and no playback control, it becomes an issue.
What are interactive PDFs? Sorry to sound ignorant but haven’t come across any yet.
James, interactive PDFs are documents that the user/learner can use with a high level of engagement. These include buttons, links, videos, and more. They are perfect for presentations or organizing different types of content in a single document. That makes the format a popular choice for trainers/instructors and instructional designers.
Feel free to go through this page for more information – https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/how-to-make-a-pdf-interactive.html
I am pretty sure you have seen already interactive PDFs. Did you never fill in a form in PDF format, where you could click radio buttons, checkboxes and fill in fields?
Hi! I think you are asking for a tool that will help you make the PDF interactive. You may try Adobe InDesign. Does its job very well. Just that it’s a paid tool but I think they do give a free trial for 7 days. This may do the trick for you!
I agree with Elina. In fact, I would recommend you to take a look at what Udemy has to offer for creating an interactive PDF using Adobe InDesign…all the best Olivia…let us know how this goes ! 🙂
I may be biased of course, but the interactivity workflows in InDesign are rather limited and take a lot of work, when compared with Captivate. For which reasons the death of the integration between Captivate and Acrobat died, I have no idea. But real interactivity as I try to develop in courses, with the possibility to transfer the results to a LMS needs a real authoring tool.
Just my personal opinion. Know that I use and have delivered training for InDesign (and used Framemaker as well). It is not a view just from the outside.
You cannot publish a Captivate course to an interactive pdf anymore (used to be possible in the past, could even transfer a score to a LMS).
However here is another possibility which allows some interactions and they are functional when published to pdf: use InDesign. The amount of possible interactions is less than in Captivate, and sometimes requires cumbersome workflows. You will not be able to transfer a score to a LMS. It is a pity that the possibility of publishing a Captivate tutorial to an interactive PDF has not be restored after the death of the SWF player. Since it is possible from an InDesign file, I don’t understand the reasons for that omission.
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