Comments on: Making InDesign Buttons with Hyperlinks

By: Ulla

Ulla — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:19 +0000

When I create buttons in CS5, give them an action ‘go to URL’ and paste in the website address in the ‘URL’ field, it works fine in preview. But when I export to a swf-file, it doesn’t.
Can anyone give me a tip about this?

By: cruz

cruz — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:55:54 +0000

usefull

By: Sophie

Sophie — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:29:46 +0000

Just had a read through this (can’t remember if someone else mentioned it) .. and looked up the issue on other help sites. Found the answer Gabriel Make your buttons (either in the Master or directly on the page). When you convert to a PDF make sure you go File>Export>Interactive PDF.. should work.

Good luck!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:23:57 +0000

Same problem here. I am working in CS5. When I export to PDF the buttons dont’ work. What’s the deal?

By: Trizana Riora

Trizana Riora — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:19:09 +0000

By the way, thanks a lot!

By: Trizana Riora

Trizana Riora — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:16:46 +0000

Hi.
I follow David Blatner´s instructions succesfully. However in CS5.5, I can´t find button options… instead i discover there is an option: Go to Destination, and then you can select the anchor previously created, dont forget to name each anchor in order to know wich destination you need.

@fedja, i had same trouble, try to follow David´s instructions (posted at beginning on September 29th, 2008 • 12:58 pm) also check if you had text over the button that you group them before converting a button or make the button from a text box…

By: fedja

fedja — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:52:18 +0000

I use ID CS5 and I have problems with exporting buttons with hyperlink to PDF file. Link works in preview but after exportnig it does not. I checked interactive ,…. Please help me!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you.

By: Michele A.

Michele A. — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:14:26 +0000

I have a 12 chapter document that has navigation buttons in each chapter that take you to another chapter. All of my buttons work fine after exporting to a pdf, but when I put the documents on my web page, any document larger than 1 MB will not open (actually, they will open eventually if you hit the back button or navigate to it through the buttons). This is through Internet Expolorer 8. I created my document in InDesign CS4. Does anyone know of a solution to this issue? Thank you.

By: Matt F

Matt F — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:33:29 +0000

I created an animated roll-down menu with five buttons. One of the buttons is set to link to page 4 in the document. I selected the five buttons, exported the selection as a SWF, placed it back into my InDesign document, exported as an interactive PDF, but when I do this I get a message that says, “This document has buttons that link to pages that do not exist. These actions will not be exported.” Sure enough, the animations are still there, but the button doesn’t link to page 4 anymore. What’s up with that?

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:55:33 +0000

@tristan – When you export a swf file and try and test it on your local machine, you may get a security warning and/or the links will not work. To fix this problem, just place the swf file (and any other asset – html, etc) on a server and test from there. It should work.