Defining the 'selection area' around a button

hi there,
I'm making an interactive pdf from InDesign - buttons linking to other pages within the document.
All fine so far - but when I make the pdf, the selection area (i.e. the area around the button that triggers the rollover effect) is too large - and as there are a lot of buttons close together it's easy to select 2 by mistake.
I can edit the selection area (for want of a better description) boxes in Acrobat but wonder if there is a way to specify it in InDesign?
thanks
Sue

thanks Steve.
I seem to be having trouble even achieving that now - when I use the handles of the bounding box in Acrobat (tools > interactive objects > select object) to try to resize it, it seems to move the graphic too. Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong?
many thanks again. Sue

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I think you are using the wrong drawimage method. If you have the selection retangle coordinates, you will need a method that draw this selection in a new retangle selection (your canvas or panel)
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[]`s
Gustavo
----- Original Message -----
From: sangeetagarg
To: Gustavo Henrique Soares de Oliveira Lyrio
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Re: re:zoom in 2d
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