Rolover action does not work every time

[poul_7416]

Hi,

I have made a rollover action in "Buttons and Forms" window.

It works but not every time I roll over the picture.

I have made the correct settings, should I mean.

I will upload a picture of the settings and a video, to show the issue.

Thanks.

[BobLevine]

What format did you export to? How are you viewing this?

[poul_7416]

Hi Bob

I exportet it to an interactive pdf-file

[poul_7416]

I am viewing it in Adobe Acrobat Pro

[BobLevine]

Well then, and you're not really going to want to hear this, but the more buttons you add to an interactive PDF the wonkier it's going to get. There's really nothing you can do about this and to be perfectly honest, unless you can control who's viewing this and what application they're using (buttons don't work at all in many 3rd party PDF readers, it's pretty much doomed. And, keep in mind that it won't work at all on mobile devices which have no concept of rollover effects.

I'd advise you to re-think the entire project.

[poul_7416]

Okay..got it.

But what would you do then ?

I do not make code. So is there any other possibilities?

[Eugene Tyson]

@BobLevine is correct and very knowledgable in this area so I would just back him up here and say to follow his advice on this. 

Can you Publish Online - does that work better? 

It relies on Web format rather than interactive PDF - it might be more flexible. 

And you can share the link and it can be opened and viewed on most devices/web clients/mobile phones etc without much issue. 

So if you think about if someone is on a mobile phone, there won't be any roll over feature and similarly people with touch screen laptops/monitors. 

So perhaps a rethink on how people will interact with your piece might be better to ditch roll overs and focus on clicks/presses etc. 

[BobLevine]

Nobody said anything about code, but unless we know how this is to be distributed there's not much in the way of help I can offer.

Honestly, this is not really your fault. Interactive PDF is, beyond simple hyperlinks or specialized forms, archaic. I wrote about this nine years ago ( It's okay to say no to interactive PDF ) and the situation is even worse now because there's really no viable interactive document format I can recommend.

[poul_7416]

Okay, and anyway thanks for all your help + comments.

I tried to publish it online directly  from Indesign, and that did not work. 

I tried to export the file to html5, and that seem to work.

I have heard, that it should be easy for a developer to publish it online. 

That would be the best solution.
The design is not ment to be used on touch screen devices.

[poul_7416]

Not to be misunderstood..

..I have heard it should be easy for at developer to publish the html5 package (exportetd from Indesign) online

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

If you're doing this for Publish Online you should look at Multi State Objects instead. Far more reliable than trying to turn buttons on and off with a rollover.

[poul_7416]

Okay..I will surely try that. Thanks for the tip !