Do interactive buttons and popups use flash?

[TMilne]

With flash support cancelled by Adobe and some browsers, will a PDF with interactive buttons and popups still work when viewed in all browsers? What technology is it using for the interactivity?

[BobLevine]

Buttons never depended on Flash and they still won't work on every reader, especially on mobile devices and browser.

Not worth the effort.

[Diane Burns · Accepted solution]

I suggest you give Publish Online a try, it's built right into InDesign. Easy to add interactivity, including buttons and popups. Check out some of the examples here: http://bit.ly/PubOnCollection

Learn about Publish Online here: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/publish-online.html

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

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, don't have rollover capability – only click – you should avoid multi-action buttons  like On Click, On Roll Over, etc.  Multi-state object (MSO) don’t work at all in an Interactive PDFs.