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• • September 11, 2014 at 4:31 am #70528
    Daniel Bull

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    Hello all,

    I have a specific function I am trying to apply to my InDesign document intended for exporting to an interactive PDF and SWF/html format.
    The function I am trying to create is:
    I have a picture of a typical WYSIWYG tool bar. I have created highlight buttons that sit on top of each icon in the picture. When the reader rolls over (with cursor) this picture of an icon I want it to highlight, and also a piece of text further down the page to highlight as well (which is a definition and explanation of the icon). So I want the rollover action of my first button to also trigger another action, which is to highlight a piece of text elsewhere on the page. I have managed to get it so that I hover over the first button (picture of icon), it highlights, and the text further down the page appears. But this isn’t quite what i want. I want the text to exist already, then highlight. Basically, I want to the two buttons to be linked. So that every time I hover over a portion of the picture with a created button, it will highlight, and a piece of exploratory text will also highlight simultaneously elsewhere on the page. A bit like an infograph. Surely this is possible?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

  • September 17, 2014 at 10:53 am #70644
    Monica Singh

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    Hi Daneil,

    For your first query, you want text to get highlighted: try giving your text a dull defalt state and bright state(for the rolloer) using Multi-state object.
    Also, there is a timing panel to synchronise your actions. You can use that to perform actions simultaneously.

    ~Monica.

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