As a brief interlude from my InDesign interactivity series, here’s a very timely example of just what you can do with InDesign CS5′s new interactivity features. Marijan Tompa has created this flash based utility which demonstrates all of InDesign’s keyboard shortcuts.
Indesign interactive keyboard
Hover over a key to see a summary of the shortcuts attached. Click on it to get a pop up screen showing more detailed information.
Indesign keyboard shortcut details screen
The interesting point about this, quite apart from the impressive end result, is that all of this functionality (fade-ins, hovers, pop ups etc) can be generated from within InDesign CS5 without the need for Flash or Action script skills. I’ll be looking into these features in a future part of this series.