Creating an interactive flowchart using Adobe Acrobat.

[Tyler27278154n70b]

We use flowcharts to map out our company procedures. This works great, but there are some steps within a procedure that require additional explanation. Is there some way I could create a pdf that hides/shows a text box with additional instructions when a user hovers over a step within the procedure?

I tried just using the highlight/notes feature, but the text can't be formatted which makes for a less than ideal user experience. The whole goal here is to make our documentation as easy to consume as possible so people actually use it.

Ideas are greatly appreciated.

[try67]

You can do it using an image field or a (read-only) text field, and a simple script to show it when the user enters with the mouse another field, and hide it when they exit it. Actually, you can even do it using the built-in "Show/Hide a Field" action, without needing any code.

[Tyler27278154n70b]

Thanks for the tip!

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

You can create a layer-based layout, with Illustrator or InDesign.

Then you have to add the "show/hide layer" actions with Acrobat Pro.

(This action is not available in InDesign)

[Tyler27278154n70b]

Do you know if lucidchart is capable of exporting a pdf file with layers? That's the tool I use to make our flowcharts.

[JR Boulay]

No, you should ask them

[Tyler27278154n70b]

Looks like lucidchart has an option to export layers; however, it exports each layer as a page. I had to split the pages and reimport them as layers in Acrobat to get this to work. But it works. Thanks for the help.