Problem making interactive pdf

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Hi!I have a problem making interactive pdf's. My colleagues can do it, I can't. I wonder if there is something wrong with my export-presets or something. (mac, Indesign 18.2.1, swedish) I have read adobes instructions, and watch a lot of tutorials.I have some pages, makes buttons by making a rectangular around a object and transformed it into a button and made the right choices. Make bookmarks by double clicking pages and make bookmark, and named it. Select the button to go to the bookmark. Select Export, and interactive pdf. I get a "hand" while I hoover over the button I have made, but when I click and release, nothing happens.My colleagues does this to but it works. Have I unclicked/clicked some kind of magic button? Can I make interactive pdf's by some other preset instead of the default, and which settings should I use in that case?//best regards, Jennie

Frans v.d. Geest · Answer

Lets start with export: you say export-presets, but for Interactive PDF there are no presets (print only), choose: File/Export/ then in the options below the file dialog be sure to choose 'Interactive PDF';

Secondly: most 'interactive' stuff like Object States, animations, and buttons that require an action other than hide/show other buttons (with the eye symbol) will not work in PDF, only the 'hyperlink kind', and if i t works at all mostly only in Acrobat (Reader or Pro), not in Apple Preview and never in a browser.

You can check out Publish Online options however instead of a PDF. Personally I would give up on 'interactive PDF' as Bob Levine would no doubt agree with me 😉

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