Interactive Flow Chart Made in Indesign

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April 21, 2023
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Hey, I'm learning this as I go, and I've hit a roadblock that I'd love to get help on. I created a complex flow chart with lots of lines going to different people. My employer's comment was, there are too many lines. Well, we need the lines to show communication... so I used the InDesign (most recent version) button options and thought I could use the show/hide options. I got it working, but... I'm in marketing and we use Adobe, the rest of the company uses bluebeam, turns out bluebeam doesn't support interactive PDF's. I was going to put it on sharepoint, so they could download it. Are there any work arounds you can recommend?

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BobLevine

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Even in Acrobat, this is a crapshoot. I wish you'd stopped in before you did all that work.

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Kate5C32Author

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Me too! If I publish it in InDesign, post the link in sharepoint, is there way to force it to open adobe reader in browser? Does Adobe reader do interactive PDF's?

BobLevine

Community Expert

Interactive PDF is a very unreliable format. Even the supported items don't work well in Acrobat or Reader. Seriously, avoid it. It's not worth the bother. I wrote the blog post more than seven years ago and things have only gotten worse. It's okay to say no to interactive PDF (boblevine.us)

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Bluebeam, like most third party PDF viewers, does not fully support the format's more advanced features. The only way to use most interactive features is in Acrobat Reader.

There really isn't any simple workaround for this limitation.

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