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Real-world examples

- Multi-state objects are the linchpin of creating powerful and interesting interaction in DPS. Each state of a multi-state object can be a group of any number of InDesign elements and objects. Besides text and images, object states can include interaction and medias, such as buttons, hyperlinks, scrollable frames and video. But what you can't do is embed a multi-state object within a state of another multi-state object. Or can you? While Adobe doesn't provide an explicit feature for doing this, with a little know-how and some elbow-grease, you can make it happen. In this chapter, I will show you how. But first, let's look at three examples to see why you may want to do this. This screen is from an app called "Greater Portland", and it is about economic development in the Portland area. What we see here is a ten-state multi-state object and as I tap through the various cities the information above each city changes. But notice the Rent and Vacancy buttons to the left. If I tap…

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