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jfushtey
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November 8, 2023
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InDesign 18.5 - PDF Hyperlink not working on same page with Show/Hide buttons

  • November 8, 2023
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On one page of my Interactive PDF, I have a Video on the top right that is assigned a Hyperlink to open a YouTube video.

 

Below is an interacive Map with show/hide buttons for each area.  

 

The Hyperlink works great if I click it first, but after using the Map Buttons, it's no longer active. 

 

I've tried having a duplicate of this Hyperlink in a new top layer (pasting order), I've tried making it a "Button" to go directly to the URL and moved it to the top layer (Interative Tab Order), but none of these tricks seem to work.  Any suggestions?

 

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    jfushtey
    jfushteyAuthor
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    November 8, 2023

    I think I found a work-around.  If I manually create a Hyperlink in the PDF file (not InDesign) it fixes this glitch....Yay! 

     

    Derek Cross
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    Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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    November 8, 2023

    Regarding buttons in Interactive PDFs, you can have a word or words or an image (such as a button shape) as a document hyperlink to say another page in the document, or to an external website.
    Some devices, for example, iPads, don't have rollover capability – only click – you should avoid multi-action buttons like On Click, On Roll Over, etc.  Multi-state objects (MSO) don’t work at all in Interactive PDFs.

    jfushtey
    jfushteyAuthor
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    November 8, 2023

    Thank you for that. These are all "click" only.

     

    Derek Cross
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    Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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    November 8, 2023

    Try InDesign's Publish Online facility (instead of PDF).

    jfushtey
    jfushteyAuthor
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    November 8, 2023

    It does work corectly when I publish it online, however the client needs a PDF for distribution.

     

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    November 8, 2023

    Video in a PDF is not going to work under the best of conditions and the rest of the interactivity is nothing but a crapshoot even in Acrobat. How are you actually viewing it? Most third-party PDF viewers are garbage.

    jfushtey
    jfushteyAuthor
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    November 8, 2023

    It's just a Hyperlink to YouTube, so I'm not trying to play it within the PDF. But you gave me a good idea so I tried just a standard text "hyperlink" and that also doesn't work after you use the show/hide Map buttons :(. 

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