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Pop-ups within PDF on mouse over

Kieron
Registered: Sep 17 2011
Posts: 1

Is it possible to create pop-ups within a PDF document like you see on on-line catalogs and shopping sites, with more product detail.
 
I need pop-ups with formatted details, so it needs to be a graphic and not just a "tool tip". It can be on click but mouse over on a graphic would be better.
 
The second part of my project is to use an application to translate this into a flash based system that includes the pop-ups and page transition animation along with search, zoom and page controls.
 
I greatly appreciate any advise and feedback.
 

UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
To an extent a popup on hover effect is possible in PDFs - you could either use hidden buttons which contain an image of your popup, or a hidden layer (OCG) in the file. Either way, you would then use a second button to toggle the visibilty - by setting actions on the mouse over/out events.

A couple of these effects on a page is relatively simple to do, but automating the process is complicated, so if your document needs hundreds of these popups it will become unmangable very quickly.

Converting a dynamic PDF to SWF is also extremely difficult - normally you would create the PDF and SWF files from the same original document (e.g. in InDesign), but as the interactivity supported by PDF and SWF are different, you're limited to what functionality you can export.
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
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