- The Race to Rich-Media Domination
- Adobe Steps into the Interactive Arena
- Adobe's Mission: One Application for Print and Interactivity
- Adobe Redefines the Office Workflow
- Page-Based vs. Timeline Formats
- The Cost of Playback
- Adobe Introduces Reader 5.1
- Multimedia Moves to the Web Page
- Acrobat's Best Friend: Adobe InDesign
- InDesign Gets Interactive
- A Polarized New-Media Industry
- Rich-Media PDF and Disruptive Technologies
- Building a Team That Includes Everyone
- Reader 8 (PDF 1.7)
- Commenting and Forms
- Attached Files
- Viewing Interactive 3D Rich Media
- Adobe and Macromedia
Acrobat's Best Friend—Adobe InDesign
Although Acrobat had finally become an alternative to Director for multimedia authoring, it was difficult to create pages that could be easily modified in Acrobat. The rich-media PDF workflow at that time consisted of creating pages in QuarkXPress, creating a PDF document in Acrobat Distiller, and then adding interactivity via Acrobat. The drawback to this workflow was that if you needed to make changes to text or graphics, you would have to return to QuarkXPress and start the process all over again!
Adobe saw the frustrations that the multimedia community was having with QuarkXPress and upgraded InDesign, its newly introduced page layout application, so that it could create print publications and author rich-media PDF—something QuarkXPress could not accomplish.