Interactive menu

Kerrie Walsh

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    • February 8, 2018 at 2:58 am #101550
      Kerrie Walsh
      Member

      Hi

      I want to create an interactive PDF to work on screen that has a button of menus that runs down the left hand side (a bit like a menu of a website)

      I want it to appear on every page and be clickable back to any other section. It needs to work on iPad too.

      Whats the best way of doing this? I’ve used TOC before but can’t get my head around this :(

      Thanks

    • February 8, 2018 at 10:15 am #101569
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Kerrie, it will be very difficult to get this to work on an iPad. In fact, most PDF readers on tablets do not support buttons and several other important interactive elements. Frustrating!

      Dropdown menus are tricky, but can be managed with some work by showing/hiding a series of buttons.

    • February 8, 2018 at 2:04 pm #101590
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Hi David,

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/micxas2zz4w2j40/InteractivePDFTest_byMichelAllio_FRIdNGE.pdf?dl=0

      That’s the “Menu” part [sample]!

      I’ve not tried to play it on an iPad with Acrobat or iBooks! [that doesn’t work!]… but simply directly in the Dropbox viewer! …

      About the “TOC” part, as I already said to Kerrie, I did it 4 years ago!

      https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1404663

      Best,
      Michel, from FRIdNGE

    • February 8, 2018 at 3:48 pm #101592
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Michel: That works for me in Acrobat on the desktop and Dropbox on my iPhone. But it does not work for me in a web browser on the desktop or in Acrobat on the iPhone.

      I think Dropbox in iOS may have added some simple support for buttons, which actually puts it ahead of Adobe Acrobat.

      But unless you know exactly what PDF reader someone will be using, it is very hard to create an interactive PDF like that.

    • February 8, 2018 at 3:58 pm #101593
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      That’s why I potentially prefer Publish Online!

      https://creativepro.com/publish-online-project-month-cyberfolio-michel-allio.php

      ;-)

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