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Bonnie J. Ramirez
Bonnie J. Ramirez
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January 23, 2018
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HELP! Popup windows for thumbnail images and rollovers not working correctly in the final Interactive PDF file.

  • January 23, 2018
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I recently created a digital small catalog for a client which will be a link to the final PDf that users can download and look through with back and next buttons and thumbnail images that when they rollover, the thumbnail shows the larger image. This does not show up correctly in he interactive PDF. The larger images always appear behind the thumbnail even though the layers are correct in InDesign CS6. I have the latest Acrobat Reader installed. The users will also  be accessing this on their iphones, android and ipads but there seems to be no workaround for the popups or rollovers. Any help would be appreciated!I recently created a digital small catalog for a client which will be a link to the final PDf that users can download and look through with back and next buttons and thumbnail images that when they rollover, the thumbnail shows the larger image. This does not show up correctly in he interactive PDF. The larger images always appear behind the thumbnail even though the layers are correct in InDesign CS6. I have the latest Acrobat Reader installed. The users will also  be accessing this on their iphones, android and ipads but there seems to be no workaround for the popups or rollovers. Any help would be appreciated!

There are 9 thumbnail images per page if that makes any difference. I have googled all over the internet with nothing offering an answer other than

for mobile phones and ipads, the PDF files that are interactive will not function as on the computer for popup windows or rollovers, but my links

work to jump to each page.

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January 24, 2018

If you have overlapping form fields, the display order is undefined and likely to change between products and versions. Never do that.

Thom Parker
Community Expert
Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2018

So the larger images are OCG Layers?  Or are they on buttons, or stamp annotations?

If they are on OCG layers, which shoud be the case since you're creating the PDF in InDesign.

Acrobat Draws the images in the order in which they appear in the content listing.  So the last content appears on the top, and the first on the bottom. Try reversing the order in InDesign. You could also leave the larger images out in Indesign and import them as Layers in Acrobat. 

Another method is to make both the large and small images different faces on the same Button. using the button rollover effect to show the large image. 

As for viewing. OCGs are not respected by many 3rd party applications, especially mobile viewers. Many mobile viewers are extremely poor and don't come close to meeting the PDF spec. JavaScript implementation is just as bad on mobile. Form fields are usually implemented better that JS and OCGs, which is why the button rollover effect might be your best bet. 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
Bonnie J. Ramirez
Bonnie J. RamirezAutor
Participant
January 24, 2018

Thanks for your answer Thom. I may try to find another workaround since this has to

work on mobile and ipads as well.

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