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Rai Deck
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December 15, 2021
Question

Page transitions in exported PDFs no longer work

  • December 15, 2021
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For years, I've used interactive PDFs exported directly from InDesign to quickly present layouts and designs. This looks best when presented in full-screen mode, where you can use some of the page transitions offered in InDesign, for example. With my new MacBook Pro and MacOS Big Sur and also Monterey, Acrobat no longer shows the page transitions. What am I doing wrong?

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manal shanableh
manal shanableh
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December 16, 2021

have you checked (Include all) whe exporing the innteractive PDF?

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Rai DeckAuthor
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December 16, 2021

yes, this is all checked.

Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2021

I can confirm pdf page transitions are not working on a Mac (Catalina). It looks like this is a known issue:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-20-page-transitions-not-displaying-correctly/td-p/10802101/page/2

You could report it as an Acrobat/Reader bug here:

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac

but I wouldn't be suprised if Adobe and Apple are pointing fingers at each other over this.

 

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    Jeffrey_SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 15, 2021

    In Acrobat > Preferences > Full Screen > Full Screen Transitions > Checkbox to disable all transitions. Is this option selected?

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      Rai DeckAuthor
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      December 15, 2021

      oh, thanks for the quick response! but, I know this setting, that is all set correctly, that's not it. It's best to try it out for yourself with any PDF, if you have a mac and MacOS Big Sur or Monterey. Acrobat (Reader or Pro) simply does not show page transitions in full screen mode.

      BobLevine
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      BobLevineCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 16, 2021

      What I can tell you is that everything works on Windows 11 as designed. If you can post one of the PDFs that aren't working for you, I'll try to open it here and that can at least narrow things down a bit to either InDesign not exporting or Acrobat not reading it.

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