: How to export a pdf file with each stage of builds from Adobe InDesign? I am using Adobe InDesign to create slides for an oral presentation at a conference (as a substitute for Microsoft PowerPoint).

@Debbie163

You can't set up animation effects in a pdf. Only basic interactive features are available such as page transitions or buttons...
You might consider exporting as swf, which would allow all kind of fancy animations.
See helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/animation.html and helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/interactive-web-documents-flash.html for complete documentation.

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@Margaret771

Assuming that you want use InD due its type and layout properties that you master and simply have got tired to fight with Microsoft's insubordinate stuff.

There's no need to input the whole PDF content from InD or other single source. In Acrobat you can insert multimedia parts to the wanted PDF pages. That multimedia can for example be a SWF file which is originally a PPT with animation effects. There exists PPT add-on software that save the presentation + all effects as SWF. One supplier for such software is iSpring. They have an attractive freebie that at least in my tests has produced a working SWF from my few page PPT with animations. Unfortunately I have not tested, does it also play well in PDF.

You can also embed into the PDF some sreen recording videos that are captured from running PPT presentation.

Addendum:
A big conference may not be the best place for free versions of commercial software. The supplier of the software surely reserves in the small print the right to show some commercials without asking.

You can use Open Office Impress. It's free and can be run as portable - no installation needed. Import your layouts from InD and use Impress to insert effected parts.

Impress can output the presentation as flash video without 3rd party add-ons.

Powerpoint can export for Impress and Impress can export for PPT.

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