Hiding and printing buttons, Set the button tab order – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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Dynamic documents
2 Place the image you want to be used as the target button. In the Buttons panel, click the [Normal] state to convert
it to the button.
3 Select the target image and choose Hidden In PDF from the Buttons panel menu.
The image needs to be hidden is the PDF document so that it can be displayed when the source button is moused over
or clicked.
4 Select the source button and create two different actions, one to show the target image and a second to hide the
target image.
If you want the image to appear when the mouse hovers over the source button, use the On Roll Over and On Roll Off
events. If you want the image to appear when you click the source button and disappear when you release it, use the
On Click and On Release events. If either case, use the Show/Hide Buttons action to display and hide the target button.
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To test the button, export the document to PDF or SWF, and view the exported file. If you’re exporting to PDF, make
sure that the Interactive Elements option is selected. If you’re exporting to SWF, make sure that Include Buttons is
selected.
For a more detailed description, see
Hiding and printing buttons
You may want to hide a button so that you can display it only when you click a different button.
1 Use the Selection tool
to select the button.
2 From the Buttons panel menu, choose an option to specify whether you want the button to be visible or invisible
in the exported PDF document, and whether you want the button to be printed.
Set the button tab order
The tab order determines the next (or previous) field to receive focus when a user presses Tab (or Shift+Tab) in the
PDF or SWF document. The tab order includes buttons on hidden layers, but not buttons on master pages.
1 Go to the page containing the buttons.
2 Choose Object > Interactive > Set Tab Order.
3 Select each button you want to move and drag it to its new position, or click the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
When you’re done, click
OK.
If you use Acrobat to edit the PDF and add more buttons or form fields to the page, you may need to specify a new tab
order in Acrobat.
Updated 18 June 2009