Create jumps to text anchors, Add button states for rollover effects – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Dynamic documents
2 In the Buttons panel, do any of the following:
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To deactivate actions, deselect the check box next to the item. Deactivating events and actions can be useful for
testing purposes.
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To change the order, drag and drop actions.
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To delete an action, select the action in the list box, and click the Delete Selected Action button
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To edit an action, choose the event to which the action is assigned, select the action in the list box, and change the
settings. If you need to replace a action for an existing event, delete the action, and then add the new action to the
event.
Create jumps to text anchors
If you create a text anchor in an InDesign document, you can cause a button to jump to that anchor, even if it’s in
another InDesign document. Use the Bookmarks panel and Hyperlinks panel to add text anchors. You cannot create
jumps from buttons to bookmarks that aren’t text anchors.
Note: If you set a hyperlink destination to a button, the hyperlink will have no effect in the exported PDF or SWF
document.
1 Use the Selection tool
to select the button.
2 In the Buttons panel, choose the event such as On Release that will trigger the jump.
3 Click the plus sign button next to Actions, and choose Go To Anchor.
4 Select one of the open InDesign documents from the Documents menu, or click the folder icon to the right of the
menu and specify the file.
5 Specify an anchor that was created using the Bookmarks panel or Hyperlinks panel.
6 Select an option from the Zoom menu to determine how the page is displayed.
7 Click Add to add the behavior, and then click OK.
Note: If you specify an anchor in a different document, remember to export that target document to PDF, and use the
same filename as the InDesign document, replacing the INDD extension with PDF. Also, store the PDF documents in the
same folder to make sure that the links remain valid in Acrobat and Reader.
See also
Add button states for rollover effects
A button consists of a group of individual objects that each represent a button state. Each button can have as many as
three states: Normal, Rollover, and Click. In the exported file, the Normal state appears unless the mouse pointer
moves into the area (Rollover) or the mouse button is clicked on the button area (Click). You can apply different
appearances to each of these three states to distinguish them from each other.
By default, any button you create is defined with the Normal state containing the button’s text or image. When you
activate a new state, the appearance of the Normal state is copied. To distinguish a state from the others, you can
change the color or add text or an image.
Updated 18 June 2009