Adobe PDFs

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Adobe PDFs

• Amy Willis
• HCI 594
• Winter 2008

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PDFs

• Visual editor
• Simulate navigation
• Need Adobe Acrobat Professional for interactivity
• Time to develop simple site
• New User 30 minutes (few links to other pages)
• Experienced User 15-20 minutes
• Drawbacks
• Create pages in other program (ex visio), export
  to pdf
• If make major changes to pages, need to re-do pdf
• Cost
• Time low few hours to several days depending
  on complexity of prototype
• 449 for professional version
• Many companies already use Acrobat

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Tools in PDF

• Library of predefined controls widgets
  includes
• Links
• Rollovers
• Drop-down menus, radio buttons, list box, check
  box, etc.
• Pop-up boxes
• Embed audio, video, flash
• Interactive forms
• Validate form data
• Perform calculations
• Respond to user actions
• Foreground and background color changes
• Tooltips
• Mimic AJAX (update only parts of the page)