InDesign 2020: Buttons and Forms library is not shown

[rooslr]

I have upgraded from InDesign 2019 to InDesign 2020. When I go to design an interactive form,  I select "Interactive for PDF" for the menus. From the "Buttons and Forms" panel, I want to select the fly-out menu option "Sample Buttons and Forms" but is is dimmed and not able to be activated. However, I do have the button library ButtonLibrary.indl in the file path \Applications\Adobe InDesign 2020\Presets\Button Library.

How do I activate the flyout menu so that I can select the Sample Buttons and Forms library?

[Derek Cross]

Note you can't succesfully use multi-state buttons with Interactive PDF, stick to simple internal and external hyperlinks.

[Laubender]

Hi rooslr,

that ButtonLibrary.indl file is just an InDesign Library file. Nothing special.

Duplicate the indl file to e.g. your Desktop and open it with InDesign's File > Open… menu dialog.

It should show its contents. I don't think that anything in this library changed from CC 2019 to 2020.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )