It’s now the time to prepare for your next job. There are lots of things designers need such as leave behinds, website, resume and a portfolio to showcase work on the go. If you’re like me and spent the last several years working on the web then a print portfolio doesn’t make since. This tutorial will show you the steps needed to make an interactive iPad portfolio that is available to use offline.

There are several ways you can go about making an interactive PDF file. In this example were going to use Indesign and an app called PDF Expert.

Create your InDesign file. Depending on your iPad size it’s good to make the screen at least fit the display on a vertical layout. I also like to make the resolution slighter larger then 72 dpi to take advantage of the retina screen. So I set mine to 150. My iPad display is pretty large its about 12 or 13 in. So I decided to go with a vertical document that is 11.667 x 16.667 in.