Eduardo Lagrèze

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Scrollable text in a interactive pdf, urgent!!

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
August 6, 2018
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Hello

I had a big problem with a fixed layout ePub that I designed with interactivity in Indesign CC 2018 and when exporting it, it reads perfect in iBook but in windows it does not work. Now the only way to quickly solve this problem is to adjust some interactivities and export to interactive pdf and the only thing that does not work is the scrollable text.

Is there any way to make scrollable text in PDF?

Or any suggestions to solve this big problem and deliver my client's work?

Thank you very much

Eduardo

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Correct answer Sjaani

If you convert the text box to a text field you can then add text using Acrobat.

For the end user this will then create a box with a plus on it, once they click that they will have a scroll bar.

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Hi rubyg61551616,

you transform an empty text frame to a Text Field for interactive PDF with:

Object > Interactive > Convert To Text Field

This will invoke panel Buttons and Forms where you can define the details for your text field.

From my German InDesign 2020:

Fill in the contents of the scrollable text field with Acrobat Pro after you exported your document with PDF Interactive.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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Of course this only works on a computer but not on devices as it sees it as a field to be filled in.

Community Expert

Correct answer

Community Expert

If you convert the text box to a text field you can then add text using Acrobat.

For the end user this will then create a box with a plus on it, once they click that they will have a scroll bar.

Legend

excellent work around. love it.

Community Expert

Community Expert

Is this an EPUB or a PDF? There is no way to get scrolling content in a PDF.

Windows EPUB readers are simply not very good…yet. The next version of Windows 10 will bring an upgraded version of Edge.

Legend

That will be a huge plus for the 5% of the world that uses edge. lol

Community Expert

Community Expert

It may be less than 5% but for those that need an EPUB reader on Windows it is a huge development.