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February 20, 2025
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Problem with visibility buttons in interactive pdf

  • February 20, 2025
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Hi,

I have created an InDesign document with three columns. In column 1 are 4 regions, North, South, West and East. In column 2 are the corresponding suppliers of each region and in column 3 are the contact details of each supplier with hyperlinks.
In column 1 and 2, all regions and text boxes are converted into buttons. These buttons have the property of making the other buttons visible or invisible.
When opening the pdf, only column 1 is visible. For example, if you click on region North then the corresponding suppliers will be visible in column 2 and if you click on one of the suppliers then its contact information will be visible in column 3.
If you then click on another region then the data in columns 2 and 3 should become invisible. That is where it goes wrong, in column 3 the contact data remains visible while it is set to invisible.
I have already saved the document as .idml and reopened it but that does not help.
Attached are some screenshots for clarification, the InDesign document and the interactive pdf.
The document has also been published online, it can be viewed at https://indd.adobe.com/view/63270167-354b-425b-8f62-08c7a97c1f0d
Online everything works fine.

1 reply

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
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February 20, 2025

I'm on my phone so can't check your PDF - but how you are checking your PDF? In Acrobat or anything else? 

 

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DesignStudio21Author
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February 20, 2025

Hi Robert,

In Acrobat.

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DesignStudio21Author
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February 20, 2025

I think I've already found?

 

This is a list of all Behaviors - for this one selected object:

 

If I'll double-click - in my ID-Tasker tool - on the one marked in red - this object will be selected in InDesign and here is a list of its behaviors - object marked in red on screen below:

 

 

If I'll then double click on the element on the lilst - marked in Green on the screen above - marked in Red on the next screenshot:

 

There is only ONE Behavior - goto URL.

 

I'll post in a moment list of where each element in the 3rd column is shown / hidden.

 


Hi Robert,

Thanks for helping me. I appreciate.

All items in column 3 should be hidden when I click on one of the regions in column 1.

So I then only need to apply the “hidden” behavior to the region buttons. The hyperlinks in column 3 should not hide themselves after clicking on them.

 

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