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Audio in Interactive PDF

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 4, 2025
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I saw a lot of questions about this but they are older, so I am hoping to maybe get a different answer this time! 🙂

I have an InDesign document with layers. One of the things on the digital layer is set up that when someone usin the Interactive PDF clicks on an answer in the Review, it shows the second layer with the correct answer and feedback. This works great, but we would like to have audio that explains the feedback.

The first one I did, I test and it seemed to work so I added the second one, now neither work.

I deleted the second one, and now even the first one won't work.

Any idea would be appreciated. I do not have the option of doing an EPub, so if this doesn't work I will have to abandon the audio aspect.

Thanks,

Wendy

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@JH-Wendy

Do you have all this data - somehow organised as a database or something like that - with a clear structure?

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

@JH-Wendy

Because, right now, you've made your Checkbox part of the blue Rectangle / Button - that suppose to show it / itself - but is of course hidden fro the start:

(above is available for free)

You need to add a new Button / checkbox - above the current one - so it will be always clickable - let's call it "show" - so when user clicks it - blue box will be shown.

Then, convert this TextFrame with the checkbox to a button - let's call it "hide" - that will be part of the Blue Rectangle and will hide whole blue rectangle.

And, just in case, you'll have to add hiding of other blue boxes when any of the "show" buttons is clicked.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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And attached is PDF with "Hidden Until Triggered" option UNchecked:

Then when you click one-by-one - they'll disappear.

So, if you add a new checkbox - that will work as a trigger to show - the whole show / hide will work 🙂

But, as I've mentioned earlier - in each "show" button - you'll have to add hiding of all Blue Rectangles - probably just from the current page.

Of course 😉 it can be automated 😉 but, unfortunately, not for free...

FTP_Chapter_08_for__support_AA.pdf

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

Take Bob Levine's (and mine) advice: forget about 'interactive PDF', it is from the old Flash days. You also had another topic asking about Layers and visibility. For both the same answer: if it will work at all, mostly only in Acrobat Reader/Pro, not on mobile devices at all, not on most PDF viewers, not when viewed in a web browser.
Don't waste your time with this, find another solution (like an html website).

JH-WendyAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you both, but html and webservers are not an option for me. I will have to figure something out. 😞

BobLevine

Community Expert

Well, good luck. Honestly, you're going to need it.

BobLevine

Community Expert

Nothing's changed. It's your time and you're free to waste it if you want to but my longstanding advice is to completely forget about any kind of multimedia in a PDF.

And FWIW, this has nothing to do with InDesign. It's the PDF format itself.

JH-WendyAuthor

Inspiring

Sure here is the page I am working on.

FTP_Chapter_08_for__support.zip

Robert at ID-Tasker

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