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October 17, 2019
Question

text over a button disappears once rendered into a PDF

  • October 17, 2019
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Hello everyone

I am working on creating an interactive pdf... where upon clicking a button, a text box shows below.

 

Now i am facing some issues with the same.

I have a box (red) with some text overlay on it.  i have converted the red box into a button (just the  red box, not the text overlay of 'Alarms' has been converted into a button) so that when i click it a blue box shows below. now that functionality of hide / show is working OK. but the box / button that has the text overlay, 'Alarms', disappears when i render the InDesign docuemnt into a PDF.

 

 

 

i am not sure why this is so. any guidance on how to fix this would be appreciated.

 

Regards

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    Chi-007
    New Participant
    June 21, 2024

    Hi there, if you don't want your button to disappear make sure to set it visible in your button and forms settings. I hope this helps. 

     

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    typerider
    New Participant
    February 12, 2020

    I just ran into the same problem. What seemed to help is placing the text for the button into the button rectangle. You might have to finetune the vertical alignment to make it look good.

    Derek Cross
    Derek Cross
    Community Expert
    October 17, 2019

    Multi-state buttons won't work in an Interactive PDF, use simple button hyperlinks.

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      trishaw19134217
      Inspiring
      July 13, 2021

      How does one make a simple button hyperlink please? I have tried looking for this on the web and all i see are rollover effects, which cause the entire button to be on top of all text in all rollover states.

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      trishaw19134217
      Inspiring
      July 13, 2021

      I have just tried using two buttons with 'on roll over' and 'on roll off" effects to try and duplicate a rollover appearance. This resulted in success however all the buttons are still on top of text.

      Kathir7
      Kathir7
      Known Participant
      October 17, 2019

      Can you check with the layers position or overlapping issues may happened, check it once again.

      share docs for more clarity.

      ashimg23377171
      ashimg23377171Author
      Inspiring
      October 17, 2019

      thanks Kathir7. i have checked the layers panel and it seems OK to me.. the 'Alarms' textbox is over the red box/Button8. Also, as a sidenote, i wish to know is there a way to view all the buttons in the InDesign document.

       

       

      Kathir7
      Kathir7
      Known Participant
      October 17, 2019
      The buttons can be viewed by clicking the double arrows '>>' at the top of the tool box. Is this what you wanted to know? or can you share any docs to know more for clarity.
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