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Duplicate buttons for smaller file size - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive PDFs
Duplicate buttons for smaller file size
- [Instructor] In an earlier chapter, I talked about making navigation buttons. You know, buttons that you can click to jump to go from one page to another. Now while these buttons sometimes don't work in tablet or mobile PDF readers, they still are a really important way to let your audience move from one page to another. But there's a secret side to buttons. Each button that you include in the PDF adds a little bit of file size. Even if you put your buttons on a master page, InDesign creates a new button for every page of your PDF. So if you're trying to keep your file size down to really small, that can be a problem. So, here's a quick trick that I learned from Acrobat guru, Ted Padova, that I often use on longer documents with a lot of buttons. Like in InDesign Magazine. Instead of putting my buttons on a master page, or on every page of the document, I only put them on the first page. For example, here inside the interactive brochure file from the exercise files folder, you'll…
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Hiding and showing content with buttons5m 11s
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Adding finishing touches in Acrobat2m 51s
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JavaScript for turning off highlighting4m 7s
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Swapping out pages to avoid extra work4m 28s
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Full-screen page transitions4m 24s
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Duplicate buttons for smaller file size3m 19s
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Working with animations and Flash5m 25s
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