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• • September 25, 2015 at 9:59 am #78362
    Brian Mazeika

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    HI everyone, I’m creating a digital catalog in ID CS6, essentially what i want to happen on the final interactive pdf is when a user scrolls through the pdf catalog, at the bottom of the page there will be a live button that opens a pop-up window with the items spec sheet.

    I can create this with the button tool / open file action, however it creates a link to my desktop so i can view the spec sheet, but when this is emailed out and another user clicks on the link it cant find the file since its linked to my computer.

    Is there a way to ’embed’ this spec sheet inside InDesign, link it to a button (or clickable link), so that its included with and inside the final interactive pdf?

    thanks in advance!

  • September 25, 2015 at 4:39 pm #78366
    David Blatner

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    There’s no way to do that with InDesign. Perhaps you can do it using Acrobat’s tools, after the PDF is exported from InDesign? Not sure.

  • September 28, 2015 at 7:58 am #78396
    Brian Mazeika

    Member

    Thanks for the Quick response David, I had a feeling InDesign couldn’t handle that. I’ll workaround in acrobat

    Thanks!

  • September 28, 2015 at 2:05 pm #78422
    Renee Showalter

    Member

    As a workaround – can you just make it link to another page (with items spec sheet) at the end of your document instead of a pop-up window?

  • September 29, 2015 at 9:08 pm #78447
    Gert Verrept

    Member

    You can do this: create a tex tbox on the spec sheet and with the text tool still selected, go to the hyperlink panel, select “new hyperlink destination”, the next panel asks you for a name for the “text anchor”. Put in a distinct name.
    Next go to the page you want to link from and create a button. In the button panel select as action “go to destination” and link it to the previously created anchor.

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