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Indesign cs6, export interactive pdf

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April 9, 2013
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When i export my interactive document to pdf, the result is not working well. All the roll over buttons are blinking when the mouse cursor point on it. also i have problem with layers. the appearance of layers is not as same as file, so some images go under other.

I have no problem in preview and it works well in preview but when i export to pdf the result is catastrophic.

Is there anyone have a same problem? Or anyone know what i am doing wrong?

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Correct answer Document Geek

It seems that for interactive elements, the stacking order is determined by the order in which the objects are converted to buttons. Try removing not just the actions, but turning them back into objects. Or, convert them into buttons in the oppsite order than you did the first time. It's maddening, but it should work. Apparently, button creation order trumps actual stacking order. Weird!

David Nicho

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June 2021. This problem canno't be solved. I've try all this fixes for hours and hours. What Steve is suggesting, helps a bit, but the problem resides in the final PDF. If you open the file in Adobe Reader, it works great, but when you open the file in Chrome and Edge PDF reader, the result is a mess, because all buttons and form show in reverse stack order! InDesign have a terrible bug problem that needs to be fixed. Please take a look at this screen capture:

Derek Cross

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Don't use roll over buttons for hyperlinks in Interactive PDF's, use simple hyperlinks using a word or words or an image or shape (maybe with a word, such as Home) on it). No multi-state activity works on PDFs nowadays.

David Nicho

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Thanks for your suggestion. I used simple plain buttons. No roll over.

danporto2000

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Hi all,

I also have the same issue but I would like to share something I discovered.

I had a project where, when we roll over on thumbnail, we should see a bigger version of picture.
But it turns out that the tick boxes are over the picture, which its wrong.

So if you open the PDF in Acrobat and go for Prepare Form tool, you have all interactive objects shown as layers. SO I moved all layers related to big picture on the bottom of the list:

And now it shows me correctly:

I know this is not the solution, but I hope it can help you guys.

Best

Danilo

robbieireland

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This is really poor. It has to be a bug.

I have a complex presentation to put together with many buttons on each page (kind of like HDRKarijo22's) and there's no way I'll be able to create all the buttons in a certain order, just to preserve the stacking order.

Imagine if the client wanted to add another button!.

I'd have to start that particular page again!

Not acceptable Adobe.

PLEASE FIX!

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Anonymous

I'm having a similar problem with the interactive not working on buttons.

We're creating advertising, with multiple interactives - hyperlinks for the websites, and clear frames changed to buttons for facebook links and the like...

The links all work when we export from InDesign to PDF for the ads. But when the ads are put on the pages of the publication, then exported a second time in a PDF of the entire page, we keep only web address hyperlinks.

Any ideas on a solution?

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HDRKarijo22

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No answer for you, but the same thing is happening for me! Mine is like a map with pop-up captions on it. The captions (which are hidden-until-triggered, actionless buttons) are on a layer ABOVE the marker buttons in InDesign, but Acrobat still displays the markers above the captions. I even tried removing all of the actions from the buttons in InDesign and adding them in Acrobat, but it still didn't work. Here's a screenshot from Acrobat of the caption showing up behind the orange markers instead of on top of them:

Also, you can see that the corner of the caption is disabling the rollover state on the marker - it should be covering up that little orange piece. What is going on!?!

Document Geek

Correct answer

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It seems that for interactive elements, the stacking order is determined by the order in which the objects are converted to buttons. Try removing not just the actions, but turning them back into objects. Or, convert them into buttons in the oppsite order than you did the first time. It's maddening, but it should work. Apparently, button creation order trumps actual stacking order. Weird!

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HDRKarijo22

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YAY!! It was the stacking order! And that seems to have solved the rollover transparency issue too. I will just have to undo/redo all of them now, but I'm so glad there's a solution. Thanks so much!! I will definitely remember that for the next project.

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Anonymous

Hi,

Did you ever find out how to fix this? The same thing is happening to me. I have a InDesign CS6 file with buttons that trigger animation. It works great in preview and if I export to swf/html, but some elements (text and buttons that should be displayed) are missing when I export to the Interactive PDF.

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amirthabibAuthor

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The buttons are in above, but the problem is is going under the other layers. I already set them to be in front. I export it with CS5 and still i have the same problems.

Steve Werner

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You're probably going to need to upload some screen captures to convey what you're experiencing. I don't recall layers being rearranged in the process of exporting an interactive PDF file.

Document Geek

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I am having the same problem. Here are my screenshots. In Acrbat 10, in the layers pane, the layers names show up correctly, but in the actual graphics of the PDF, the layers are displayed in the reverse order.