Interactive Buttons in Acrobat causes Main Document Disappear

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October 28, 2017
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I created an Interactive Document in InDesign consisting of buttons on a Map page that are linked to Photographs. I Exported this InDesign Document (with the Photographs) to an Interactive Acrobat Document (Mac High Sierra and Adobe CC 2018). The Buttons show well when opened in Acrobat, and the Buttons, when "Clicked" show the correct Photos.

The Main Acrobat Page is a Map, which disappears once a Button is Clicked and the proper Photo appears. This is true even if I turn off Tabs. To get back to the Main Acrobat Page (the Map), I have to reopen that page using the Finder>Open Menu in Acrobat. Once I click another Button on the Map page, the same thing happens again.

Is there any way to have the Main Map page be more accessible/intuitive/present to someone that is not so sophisticated with this Navigation?

Thank you in advance for any help.

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Not sure there's much you can do in that model. Go back doesn't follow open file links, I think. Maybe a GO TO VIEW link would allow a back, but not sure if you can set them up in InDesign. Any ideas out there?

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Ah, I assumed this was all happening on the PDF page. These photos - what format are they in? If they are not PDF, Acrobat will open a different app, that the user just needs to close or quit to go back. This isn't recommended, because the user will get a security prompt in a lot of software.

CavettAuthor

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Thank you for your continued help.

The Photos are saved in .pdf format. Of course they all have to be in the same folder (properly named), as the .pdf Map file.

Thanks again.

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You say it's "linked to" a photo. How do you link it, in detail? For example, is it a photo on a web page, where you link to a URL and the browser opens? Or is it a hidden button that you may visible? Or one of countless other possibilities?

CavettAuthor

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Thank you for your response. Attached are two Screen Shots that may answer your questions:

The first is a Screen Shot of InDesign where "Buttons and Forms" specify that "Click" will "Open File" which is a Photo of a Sign telling the hiker which direction to hike (this is a .pdf Photo file).

The second Screen Shot is taken within the InDesign app after all the buttons are created and Linked to the appropriate Photos. It is found from the Menu, "File">"Export">"Adobe PDF (Interactive)"; I circled this choice in RED.

The above will result in Map, .pdf File, and Photographs, which I already saved, as .pdf Files (and, I Linked to the Buttons within the InDesign App).

Thanks again for your help.

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