Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 567)

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1. Select a multi-state object.
2. In the Object States panel, do any of the following:
To edit a state, select the state in the Object States panel, and then edit the object. For example, you can add a stroke or fill or resize
the object.
To add an object to an existing state, select both the object and the multi-state object, and then click the Add Objects To Visible State
button
.
To add an object to an existing multi-state object, select both the object and the multi-state object, and then click the Convert Selection
To Multi-State Object button .
To duplicate a state, select a state to base the new state on, and choose New State from the panel menu. Add, remove, or edit the
content of that state.
To paste objects into an existing state, cut or copy one or more objects, select the multi-state object, select the state in the Object States
panel, and choose Paste Into State from the Object States panel menu.
To convert a multi-state object back to a set of independent objects, select the state in the Object States panel and choose Release
State To Object from the panel menu. To convert all states in the multi-state object to objects, choose Release All States To Objects.
To delete a state and remove its contents, select the state and choose Delete State from the panel menu.
To hide the multi-state object in the exported file until it’s triggered by a button, choose Hide Until Triggered from the panel menu.
To reset all multi-state objects in the document to the first state, choose Reset All Multi-State Objects To First State from the panel
menu. When you select a state, the object remains in that state, even if you close and reopen the document. This option is a quick way
to reset all the multi-state objects.
Create button hot spots
In some cases, you may want the button area (called a “hot spot” or “hot link”) to be invisible until the mouse pointer hovers over it. For example,
when you move a pointer over a button on a map, an image could be displayed that represents a region, and the image could disappear when the
pointer moves away from the region.
In the exported PDF file, holding the pointer over a hot spot causes an image to appear.
Display a hidden image on rollover
One way to achieve a “hot spot” effect is to apply an image to the Rollover state in the Buttons panel. To do this, create a button in which the
[Rollover] state displays an image while the [Normal] state doesn’t display the image.
1. Select the image you want to use as a hot spot. Make sure the frame of the image does not have a border or background.
2. In the Buttons panel (choose Window > Interactive > Buttons), click the [Normal] appearance to convert the selected image to a button.
3. Click the [Rollover] appearance in the Buttons panel to activate it.
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