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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents

030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents

InDesign's buttons are really helpful when creating interactive PDF or SWF files, but InDesign's buttons have a peculiar limitation. They're only one state, that means a single click can only do one thing, like make a picture up here. For example, let me zoom in here on this upper right corner, and I can see that this is a button--see the little icon there; this is a button that's going to make this picture appear. But what if I want to second click on this to make the picture disappear? Can I do that? Sure, but it takes a little trick. The trick is you need two buttons that look like a single button. Here's what you do. First, I'm going to switch my workspace over to my Interactive workspace so that I can see my Buttons and Animations panel, and I can open my Buttons panel, and I'll show you that this bottom plays an animation. The animation is this icon over here. I'll click on that, open the Animation panel, and you can see that it's set to fly in from top, that's all it does…

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