Troubleshooting Interactive PDFs on Mobile Device (iPad and iPhone)

[Les Trinity]

I created an interactive PDF containing buttons with rollover states linking to URLs and also have some hyperlinked images and text linking to a URL. When viewing the iPDF on my iPad and iPhone, the buttons containing rollover states do not work nor do the hyperlinked images and text linking to a URL work. Please advise if there is solution to exporting my file from InDesign so the interactivity stays in the layout. Or is there any third-party apps for the iPad/iPhone to try in order for this to work. Thank you in advance, Les

[Derek Cross]

Regarding buttons in an Interactive PDF, you can have a word or words or an image (such as a button shape) as a document hyperlink to say another page in the document, or to an external website.
Some devices, for example, iPads and iPhones, don't have rollover capability – only click – you should avoid multi-action buttons like On Click, On Roll Over, etc.  Multi-state objects (MSO) don’t work at all in Interactive PDFs.

[BobLevine]

First off, buttons are nothing but a crapshoot anyway, and as Derek has already pointed out, mobile devices do not have rollover states. I suggest you rethink this entirely and skip the buttons.