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Why PDF Portfolios?

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2010-09-13 16:58:19
Oak
Registered: Sep 13 2010
Posts: 1

I've got several dozen historic photographs and documents that tell a remarkable story. I'd like to build a PDF portfolio where the user can browse through them and read notes and other information about the photograph or document.

One would think this approach would be a perfect fit for a PDF portfolio. But I can't seem to get the feature to do what I want. I cannot lay out the images/text as I wish.

So the only solution I can devise is to create what I want with Indesign and export that in a PDF file.

Perhaps my mistake is to think of this technology as a layout tool when in fact it isn't - it's a place to gather digital files created elsewhere.

Thank you.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.3.1, Macintosh
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2010-09-15 01:20:28
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
For your application I agree that a single PDF laid out in something like InDesign is the way to go. Portfolios are great for collecting together series of documents, but in your case the inter-relationship of the photos and text requires a more direct layout, so you can flow text and images around each other.
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2010-10-21 00:42:58
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jogreen68 (not verified)
Anything like what you are trying to creat I have always done in InDesign, you are always better combining photoshop with indesign and then really only creating a .pdf for the final version.
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