Interactive thermometer

[Laura Holancin]

Hello, I have created an Indesign document with a fundraising thermometer, then exported to pdf. It has been approved for print, but now my client wants a digital version where the managers can click each section of the thermometer as the goal is reached, and have it fill in with colour. I have created a document in Illustrator with 10% to 100% filled thermometers as artboards and also a version as layers. How do I import them so that the manager can click in the 10% area and it will show the 10% filled image? I have attached the document and a sample filled in part of the thermometer. Hope this makes sense...I'm desperate lol. Any help greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

The layers you created did not carry through to the PDF. You should ask in the Illustrator forum how to do that properly.

But let's say you have those layers set up and they are called "10%", "20%", etc. What you need to do in Acrobat is create a button over each one of the areas where you want the user to be able to click (it's a bit tricky since fields can only be rectangular, but you can create multiple ones that have the same name to cover the non-rectangular areas), and then apply a "Set layer visibility" action to them to show the desired layer, and hide the rest. This can also be done using a script.

Something like this: