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• • July 23, 2012 at 6:01 am #62659
    cv2012

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    Dear all,

    Newbie to this forum here so apologies if this has been covered previously but I did a search and couldn't find anything…

    I have a 4 page brochure which I exported to SWF. I then created a 2 page interactive document in Indesign and placed the SWF on the first page and an interactive form on the second page… (I did this because as far as I can tell the interactivity in a form i.e. fields, doesn't work in a PDF created by an SWF). I then added a button to the SWF page (page 1) of the document that will navigate to the form page (page 2) (I have tried in both Acrobat Pro X and Indesign). I have experimented with a combination of buttons and go to pages, bookmarks, and hyperlinks and cannot get any of them to work correctly.

    I then export to an interactive PDF. When I click on the button on the final page of the SWF (it is present on all pages but I have made it invisible so that you only “see” it on the last page when there is a box on the SWF in the same place), it moves to the last page and then jumps back to the SWF page, sometimes if you click on it again it will take you to the last page and sometimes it doesn't work at all…. So essentially the user has to click twice on the button to go to the form.

    Hoping someone has a solution to this problem as it has been driving me mad for a week now – I keep coming back to it with different variations but nothing works.

    Many thanks, Claire.

  • August 10, 2012 at 6:35 am #62825
    cv2012

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    Hello just wondering if anyone has any ideas about this issue please? Keeping everything crossed….

    Many thanks, Claire.

  • August 10, 2012 at 7:51 am #62826
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Sorry, but I don't think it works that way. The SWF is its own little bubble, running inside of the PDF. It probably doesn't even know that it's inside a PDF, so it cannot control the PDF, as far as I know.

  • August 13, 2012 at 5:15 am #62875
    cv2012

    Participant

    Hi David,

    Thank you for your response but that is not quite what I have done. I have embedded a swf file into an indesign document and have added the button to the “swf” indesign page to go to the next indesign page, then exported as an interactive pdf. Any ideas on this please? Essentially it is just one page within an interactive pdf linking to another page within an interactive pdf. When I create the same set up without the swf on the first page it works fine….

    Many thanks for your help on this.

    Best regards, Claire.

  • August 13, 2012 at 8:12 am #62877
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    So if you create a new 2-page document and put a button on page 1, and set that button's action to Go to Next Page, it will take you to page 2.

    But then if you use File > Place to put the SWF on page 1, then the button on page 1 no longer works?

  • August 13, 2012 at 11:54 am #62882
    cv2012

    Participant

    Exactly. I tried adding the SWF after the button and sending it to the back as well as adding it first and then adding the button. There are no buttons in the SWF.

    It's driving me mad so if you can tell me where I am going wrong it would greatly appreciated.

    Many thanks, Claire.

  • August 13, 2012 at 12:39 pm #62886
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Is the SWF overlapping the button? If so, what happens if you move it out of the way, so that the button and the SWF don't overlap?

  • August 13, 2012 at 12:58 pm #62887
    cv2012

    Participant

    Yep the swf is the full page size and button is “placed” over where the button on the SWF would be, so it looks like it flows.

    I reduced the size of the swf to 75% and moved the button to the bottom of the page and it works perfectly… ARGH!

  • August 13, 2012 at 1:03 pm #62888
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yes, this is a weakness of the Acrobat imaging model, I think. Same thing happens if you put a movie over a button. It moves to the top and obscures stuff under it. Not sure if this is something that can be fixed in Acrobat.

  • August 13, 2012 at 1:10 pm #62889
    cv2012

    Participant

    Nope, the same thing happens if you add a button within Acrobat. Real shame as that could be powerful to have the flipping page curl and interactive form in one pdf. :-(

  • August 14, 2012 at 3:50 am #62900
    cv2012

    Participant

    PS thank you for your help on this. :-)

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