Creating a gallery slideshow in in-design and exporting as an INTERACTIVE PDF, not epub!

[BESIXTH71]

Hi guys, I've been trying to figure this out for ages and I don't seem to be making any progress.

I'm looking to create a slideshow within an interactive PDF fro my portfolio, but every tutorial I come across asks me to export as an e-pub.

I think it has something to do with 'hide/show' buttons as appose to 'state objects' but not sure.

I came across an example online so I know it's possible....link can be found below ------>

Dropbox - Interactive PDF example

Please helppppp

Cheers
Rob

[BobLevine]

Show hide buttons and forms is what it looks like (multi state objects are not supported in PDF) but it’s going to be a real PITA. Why do you want to do this as a PDF? It won’t work in a lot of browsers and it probably won’t work on most mobile devices without paying for a PDF reader.

[BESIXTH71]

Hey Bob,

Thanks for the response!

It's for my PDF portfolio as all of the jobs I'm applying for require me to send one through.

I'm just trying to keep the number of pages down and thought this would have been a nice way to showcase work without creating loads of extra pages.

Any other ideas how I could replicate something similar?

Cheers
Rob

[Test Screen Name]

I would strongly recommend you make something without interactivity so it works in all browsers, email apps, mobiles as well as in Reader. It would be a mistake to assume HR would know how to correctly view it.

[BESIXTH71]

Yeah I may just stick to a standard PDF, it seems to be the general consensus from all the responses here.

Good to know how it works for future ref though

[Doug A Roberts]

the 'back' and 'next' buttons aren't single buttons, they're stacks of identical buttons that do a few things on the 'mouse down' event:

1. hide itself

2. show the next button

3. show one of the images

4. hide the other images

i've made lots of docs like this, and yes, it's a PITA.

[BESIXTH71]

Thanks Doug,

Does this work on a continuous loop then, or will you eventually hit a wall?

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

it's a loop.

button 1 hides itself and buttons 3 and 4, shows image 1 and button 2

button 2 hides itself and buttons 4 and 1, shows image 2 and button 3

button 3 hides itself and buttons 1 and 2, shows image 3 and button 4

button 4 hides itself and buttons 2 and 3, shows image 4 and button 1

button 1 ... etc.

[BESIXTH71]

I seeeee.

Thanks for explaining mate

Cheers
Rob