need to overlay squares on a PDF that can change colors w/ mouse click.

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Hello all,I'm a novice illustrator user.  I work in an oil refinery.  We have technical drawings that show lines (pipes) and valves (triangles).  I need to find the right application to take a base technical drawing and add an interactive overlay where I can place squares over the valves to show whether they should be OPEN (green), CLOSED (red) or OPEN/CLOSE (blue).  The technical drawings are PDFs.  Right now, we're using "PDF Annotator" to color our drawings.  This is very time consuming and the color squares must be re-done for every new project.   A master drawing with an interactive master overlay that allows quick toggling between colors is what I'm shooting for.Not sure if this is possible in illustrator.  I'd appreciate any suggestions or direction you can provide.  Thanks in advance.

Doug A Roberts · Answer

it is not something you can do straight out of illustrator. it is something you could do in Acrobat by turning those elements into buttons that hide/show each other (for instance: green is visible initially, click to hide itself and show red, click red to hide itself and show blue, click once more to hide blue and show green). do you have access to Acrobat Pro/DC?

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