Completely Stuck! Buttons / Interactivity not working

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      I am creating an inforgraphic in indesign, using buttons that when you scroll over, an image fades in. Exporting to an swf file. The fade function works beautifully, however I am using rectangles positioned at strange angles as my buttons. They are set up perfectly as rectangular boxes, however when I convert the rectangle to a button, a new rectanglular bounding box surrounds the entire shape. This then becomes the *hhit area* for scrolling. This is causing quite the headache because there is an enormous amount of overlap on each button.

      Long story short, is there a way to take my original rectangle (angled) and make that into a button, without a new bounding box appearing as the actual hit area?

      Many thanks in advance for reading this.

      Best, Conor

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      Justin Sligh
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      Conor,

      PDFs can only have buttons with bounding boxes that are squared up with the page.
      SWFs can have buttons with bounding boxes that are at angles.

      First, you must create a rectangle, which is squared with the page. Second, you create the button. Third, you rotate the button to the desired angle. If you export to SWf, it should work. If you export to PDF, it will revert back to the squared-to-the-page bounding box.

      If you rotate your rectangle before making it a button, the bounding box will revert to being square to the page.

      I know you are creating a SWF, but those who are having the same issue with interactive PDFs, you can tackle it with Bob Levine’s workaround. This involves creating multiple tiny buttons and aligning them on the desired angle to tile out your shape.

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