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Understanding buttons

Understanding buttons - InDesign Tutorial

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Understanding buttons

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- [Instructor] Hyperlinks are one sort of interactive hot spot in a PDF. That is, they do something when you click, or tap on them. But there's another kind of interactive hot spot too, buttons. You can use buttons for navigation, letting people jump from one page to the next, for example. But you can also use buttons to do even more than hyperlinks. A button could start a movie playing, or submit a form, or control the visibility of images, or text on your page. You can make just about any object on your InDesign page into a button. Pictures can be buttons, text frames, lines, really anything. In this case, I want this object down here at the bottom of my page to be a button. Now I can tell by the dotted line around that text frame that this object is on a master page. So I'm going to open my Pages panel from the dock, and then double-click on A-Master. And now I'll select that object on my page, it's just a text frame, and I'll zoom in to 400 percent by pressing Command + 4 on the…

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