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using and eliminating a button for layer navigation

2008-01-13 21:57:18

ggitchell

Registered: Jan 13 2008

Posts: 2

How can I make a button display a new layer- without the current layer or current button visible?

I exported from inDesign with layers and have tried putting the button on its own layer as well as on the main layer.

There seems to be no way to view a layer to set the button while also having the eye icon gone in order to have the layer dissapear for the button action.

I am trying to do this for a form which has a review button. The review button would take the user to the beginning, keep form data, add new instructions and replace the review button at the end with a submit button.

I thought this would be easy...

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows

2008-01-17 18:29:30

tedpadova

Registered: Dec 31 2005

Posts: 848

When you create buttons in InDesign and open the PDF, the Indesign buttons only appear on the layers where they were created - unlike Acrobat where field objects appear on all layers when created in Acrobat. There's no way to use the Set Layer Visibility action in Acrobat to change layer visibility on these buttons since the button hides the minute you attempt to set the new layer view.

In order to change the OCG state (layer visibility) you need to use a JavaScript. Download my eBook 101FormseTips.pdf from Acrobat Users. You'll find a link to the document on the Home page. Take a look at the file Attachments. You'll find the housePlan.pdf documment cotaining JavaScripts that change layer visibility.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.