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Nik0101
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October 22, 2020
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Exporting interactive PDF

  • October 22, 2020
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Hi Adobe Community,

 

I am currently working on an interactive PDF with Buttons etc. in InDesign. In the end it is supposed to be kinda a configurator for a product I am selling. Now I thought it would be great that later the user is restricted to use my buttons and isnt possible to just scroll through. I already informed myself and found out that you can not just disable the scroll function. While researching I found an answer where the different sites of the exported PDF were sites on their own - so no scrolling possible. The buttons still connected the singular sites and made it interactive this way. Is this only possible with scripting?

I hope I managed to formulate my answer understandable and I would be happy over any help you guys can provide.

 

Thanks!

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Correct answer Derek Cross

You'll probaly have problems with some of these intereactive elements with a PDF, an alternative you might consider is InDesign's Publish Online – it would be easy to test the idea using your existing InDesign document.

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Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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October 22, 2020

You'll probaly have problems with some of these intereactive elements with a PDF, an alternative you might consider is InDesign's Publish Online – it would be easy to test the idea using your existing InDesign document.

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Nik0101Author
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October 23, 2020

I am gonna try this for sure. Sounds good.

Thank you for the help!

Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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October 23, 2020

Linkedin Learning have a terrific online video tutorial on creating interactive documents with Publish Online (you can get 30-days free access):  https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-publish-online-2?trk=learning-serp_learning_search-card&upsellOrderOrigin=homepage-learning_learning-search-bar_search-submit

 

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    October 22, 2020

    Sounds like you need a website, not a PDF. 

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    Nik0101Author
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    October 22, 2020

    I know that its something complicated I am asking for. I just saw the possibility with the multiple PDF Pages and was wondering if someone has an answer to it 🙂

    Luke Jennings3
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    Luke Jennings3Community Expert
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    October 22, 2020

    Alright. I figure it will get a bit to complicated and I dont really have the time to get in the Script part at the moment.

    I will just have to communicate to my users to stick to the interactives elements.

    Thank you guys for the comments anyway!


    A website would be the logical choice for this, although you can create buttons in your PDF that can take you to any internet address (link), without the need for scripting. There are some other PDF options, you can use buttons to show and hide PDF layers created in InDesign or Illustrator, or use buttons to open other PDFs (or other files) attached to your PDF. The user would need to use Acrobat or Reader to take advantage of the buttons. Acrobat has excellent tools for editing interactive PDFs, Tools> Prepare form.

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