From the course: InDesign: Creating Fixed-Layout EPUBs
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Adding pop-ups with Hide/Show buttons - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Creating Fixed-Layout EPUBs
Adding pop-ups with Hide/Show buttons
Now that we know how to make simple buttons, let's move on to something that's a little bit more complex but is really fun to do. If you've ever worked with a program like say, iBooks Author, you know, they have widgets built-in where you can easily create pop-up captions and little games. You can sort of roll your own in InDesign with the strategic use of a certain button action called Show Hide. I'm going to show a couple of examples of ways that these two publications that we've been working with. Candy Mag and Flyaway Magazine use show hide buttons. First, I'm starting with the Flyaway Magazine, and I have a subset open here which is the gallery section. We're looking at the publication in preview mode. Let's open up the pages panel to see how big of a document we're working with. It's only nine pages long. I'll switch to normal view so that you can see that each one of these small images is a button. And if I select one of these and open up the buttons panel, which if it's not in…
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Interactivity and rich media overview5m 13s
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Using the new EPUB Interactivity Preview panel3m 59s
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Adding hyperlinks and cross-references6m 19s
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Animating objects with the Animation panel5m 46s
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Managing the sequence of multiple animations3m 48s
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Creating buttons that trigger actions6m 46s
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Adding pop-ups with Hide/Show buttons6m 9s
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Creating slideshows with multistate objects6m 24s
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Adding animations from Adobe Edge Animate4m 59s
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Converting rich media files with Adobe Media Encoder5m 29s
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Adding video and sound files5m 40s
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