Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 553)

545 USING INDESIGN CS4
Dynamic documents
Viewing page transitions in a PDF
To include page transitions when you export the PDF document, select the Interactive Elements option in the Export
PDF dialog box.
To see page transitions in the exported PDF, place the PDF in Full Screen Mode by pressing Ctrl+L (Windows) or
Command+L (Mac
OS) in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Press Esc to exit from Full Screen Mode.
Buttons
Create buttons
You can create buttons that perform an action when the document is exported to SWF or PDF format. For example,
you can create a button that jumps to a different page or opens a website.
Button set up to play movie in exported PDF
When you create a button, you can do the following:
• Make the buttons interactive. When a user clicks a button in the exported SWF or PDF file, an action is performed.
See “
Make buttons interactive ” on page 546.
• Use the State Appearance section of the Buttons panel to define the appearance the button takes in response to
certain mouse actions. See “
Add button states for rollover effects ” on page 549.
• Create a “hot spot” or “hot link” effect that displays an image when the button is moused over or clicked. See “ Create
button hot spots ” on page 551.
When working on buttons and designing dynamic documents, select the Interactivity workspace.
Create a button
1 Use the Type tool or a drawing tool, such as the Rectangle tool or Ellipse tool, to draw the button shape. If necessary,
use the Type tool to add text to the button, such as “Next” or “Purchase.”
If you’re creating navigation buttons (such as Next Page or Previous Page) that appear on multiple pages, add them
to a master page so that you don’t have to re-create buttons on every document page. These buttons appear on all
document pages to which the master is applied.
2 Use the Selection tool to select the image, shape, or text frame that you want to convert.
You cannot convert a movie, sound, or poster to a button.
3 Choose Object > Interactive > Convert To Button.
You can also click [Normal] in the State Appearance section of the Buttons panel to convert the selected object to a
button, or you can click the Convert Object To A Button icon in the Buttons panel.
Updated 18 June 2009