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• • March 20, 2015 at 6:07 pm #74082
    Robert Sbisa

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    I have created a 28-page interactive PDF that includes a static menu placed within a master page that covers all pages in the document. The menu has 25 items, each with a hidden button over it with the action, Go To Destination > [Some bookmark]. Once exported, all 25 buttons work perfectly. I now wish to add Previous and Next Page navigation with left and right pointing triangles. Easy enough, right?

    Well, I cannot get the Prev Next navigation buttons to work. At all. Additionally, I added a “Menu” button on the cover page that is supposed to Go To Destination > First page that features the static menu. That button does not work, either.

    When making the Prev Next buttons and Menu button, I have followed the exact same process that I successfully did with the static menu.

    Looking for a little guidance. I must be missing a step.

  • March 21, 2015 at 5:49 am #74087
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Where are you viewing the PDF? Acrobat on the desktop? (Buttons don’t work on the iPad typically.) Is it possible that there is any other interactive object sitting on top of the buttons? (So that you’re clicking, but it’s registering on the wrong object.)

  • March 21, 2015 at 7:04 am #74089
    Robert Sbisa

    Member

    David, excellent questions.

    I am exporting to Acrobat with interactive settings (bookmarks, etc.) checked, highest quality, etc. and viewing in Acrobat Pro X on my PC. As for other things sitting on top of the hidden buttons, I thought of that, too, and placed all buttons in their own, top layer; and I am certain there are no other objects on top of them.

    Another weird thing: For diagnostics, I tried a couple tests. First, I tried to repurpose one of my working buttons from Go To Destination to Next Page. The button will not convert to any other action. After exporting, it reverts to its original, working, Go To Destination. Next, I tried just copying that working button and placing the extra copy over my Next triangle shape. It doesn’t work (BTW, the mouse cursor remains an arrow over the new object. It doesn’t morph to the pointy finger as it does over the working buttons). I then tried taking that copied button off of the master page and pasting directly on the first page of my document. Still nothing.

    It seems as if I have hit the top end limit of the number of interactive objects allowed in a document. Is this possible? But then, I also tested by creating a new, fresh document of 5 blank pages, with nothing on them but page numbers and Prev Next buttons. I cannot get those buttons to work, either. So, it does seem like operator error here. I stumbled into doing something right with my menu and now I’m missing a step(s) with the Prev Next buttons!

  • March 21, 2015 at 7:23 am #74090
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Possible that some of your “buttons” are actually just hyperlinks?
    Note that buttons only work when you export to “PDF (Interactive)” (but hyperlinks can work with ‘pdf (print)’ )

  • March 21, 2015 at 8:38 am #74091
    Robert Sbisa

    Member

    David, solved the mystery: I’m an idiot.

    Even though I had done everything right. Right up to the point where I was exporting to the default PDF, and not PDF (Interactive). Solved everything.

    Thanks!

  • April 4, 2019 at 5:38 am #115811
    Leonardo Rivas

    Member

    It happens to me that I thought I did all perfect, but when I double check the instructions that were given to each button, e.g., there are THREE status that a button could have: VISIBLE, INVISIBLE, and but not less IGNORE (with the X symbol), the thing is that you have to revise all the actions that will be involved in the document, paying attention that the IGNORE status will is giving action to nothing, I mean, I was distracted that the X symbol of the IGNORE status could mean (to my logic way of think) hide, or: don’t show, avoid, etc.

    The other thing that you can think about: as more instructions given to a button better, this to try to avoid non-working stuff.

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