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Build interactive websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners, & more from Adobe InDesign...without coding!
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Why in5
If you're like many designers we know, you're able to produce some fantastic designs using InDesign.
But now clients are asking for digital magazines, mobile apps, ebooks, and web banners.
Unfortunately, there hasn't been an easy way to translate your designs into web and mobile experiences—unless you want to learn to code.
Now you can use in5 to export your InDesign layout with rich interactivity—and no coding!
'I’m not sure you know what this means, or how completely excited I am. Game changer.'
- Julie Archibald, Sr. Manager of Presentation Design & Data Vis at Avid
Key Benefits
Fully integrated with InDesign
in5 unlocks InDesign's most powerful native interactive features.
Export to any device
Your output will work on any computer, tablet, or smartphone.
No coding required
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You can design visually, and in5 will write the code for you!
Flexible output
In addition to digital magazines and web content, you can also use in5 to create content for mobile apps.
in5 creates files ready for use with the Baker Framework, the Amazon Marketplace, and more.
in5 also makes it easy to bypass the App Store by exporting a Web App.
Are you the type of person who likes a massive list of features?
OK, just for you.
'in5 is our team’s most valuable and most used, design-to-digital tool. I am currently teaching another team within our company how to use the interactive side of InDesign and in5, because they are awe of what we are creating!'
- Jake Hoisington, Sr. Interactive Producer at Lincoln Financial Group
How in5 works
in5 translates your InDesign layout to an interactive HTML experience.
The exported files that are produced are yours to keep and modify as you please.
Total flexibility because you own your content
The files are exported to your hard drive just like a PDF.
You can then post your files to the web, or package them into a mobile app.
Unlike a PDF, you can easily open and make changes to the HTML5 files without re-exporting them.
Create as many apps or sites as you like!
Easily create different types of interactive documents
Create a flipbook, a one-page scrolling website, a presentation, a banner ad or more using the Easy Export Wizard.
What experts are saying about in5
'in5 picks up where InDesign leaves off, providing a new output path for our favorite design tool!'
- Keith Gilbert, Principal at Gilbert Consulting
'in5 makes what was once a frustrating, convoluted process, straightforward and simple.'
- Bob Levine, The 'InDesign Guy'
'in5 is awesome! It’s really amazing!'
- David Blatner, Co-host of InDesignSecrets
Used by these companies
Check out examples of actual digital magazines, sites, and apps made by in5 customers.
'in5 is the most powerful InDesign add-on I've ever seen! Impressed with everything!'
- Luis Felipe Corullón, InDesign expert and Layout Designer
in5 Feature List
Visual goodness
- Support for native InDesign Animation
- Support for Timing of multiple animations (sequencing)
- The ability to nest animation and interactivity within groups and Multi-State Objects
- Multiple Page Format options to create different types of documents (magazines vs. apps vs. websites, etc.)
- Text can be rendered as HTML (with embedded fonts or web-safe fallbacks), images (to preserve appearance), or SVG (preserve appearance and scaleability)
- Swipe Navigation and touch support
- Ability to create Responsive Layouts visually in InDesign
Multimedia & interactivity
- 3D Flipcard widget (for Pro+ plans)
- Video embedding
- Audio embedding
- Embedding of HTML (such as YouTube, Vimeo, or Google Maps)
- Support for Widgets/Overlays: Slideshows,Web Content, Image Sequence, and Pan & Zoom, and Scrollable Frame
- Image Quality controls
- Supports numourous button actions: Go to Destination, Go to Page, Go to Anchor, Go to Next Page, Go to Previous Page, Go to First page, Go to Next State, Go to Previous State, Go to State, Play, Play from Navigation Point (movies only), Stop, Pause, Stop All
- Supports Clicks, Taps, Roll Overs, Roll Offs, and Focus and Blur events
Accessibility, SEO, & live output
- Mobile Article Explorer for easy reading on small screens, while maintaining a pixel-perfect layout.
- Support for Alt text using the button name, script label, or Alt text within the Object Export Options
- Supports mapping styles to specific HTML tags
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO): title, keywords, description, author -- pulls from INDD meta data automatically, and can generate keywords automatically from the document
- Ability to export live, editable tables.
- HTML and CSS output supports columns, paragraph rules, bullet lists, numbered lists, and anchored images
- Supports Table of Contents linking and linking between pages
Output options
- Viewer Display options (page thumbnail navigation, reader progress, full screen, zoom in/out, PDF download, etc)
- Ability to assign proportional scaling for any device
- Export to specific formats like iPad Web App and iPhone Web App
- Amazon Marketplace integration
- Offline application caching
- Ability to attach external Resources and URLs
- The ability to open URLs (and images) in a 'Lightbox' so that the viewer never has to leave the page
Indesign Plugins Free
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Looking for a list of which InDesign interactive features are supported by in5? We've got you covered.