InDesign Interactive PDF/SWF/HTML

In InDesign, I'm trying to make it so an object (rectangular frame) moves down the page as you scroll as a .swf/html/interactive pdf (like the menu bar on the left here: http://peeltheorange.com/#what-we-do) THANKS!

It can't be done in InDesign, as far as I can tell. Definitely not possible in interactive PDF. Might be possible in a SWF but not from InDesign. You'd have to be a Flash Professional guru do to it in SWF perhaps. Most likely to accomplish in HTML, but NOT from InDesign. Time to go for Dreamweaver or Muse.

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In the button panel, when you add the sound button action to the button, you also add the Focus(pdf) action as well. This solves the double click issue.

Indesign Interactive pdf

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I followed a tutorial that told me to export my doc as a SWF then place the SWF back into indesign onto a spread and export the spread I placed it on as a interactive pdf. Sorry not explaining it very well.

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Thanks Sumit but the Hyperlink list does not have %20 in, only when you hover over or get warning.

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Indesign interactive pdf (pop up graphics)

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I have quit trying to export as a pdf though I will say I am almost positive the guy in the tutorial exports to pdf. Now I have a whole other issue. I had added a .mov file and an mp3 to load on a specific page this worked in the .pdf but now only the .mov when the page is loaded. The mp3 however loads after you have watched the .mov and load another page. It's the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I have been through all of the settings and I am about ready to give up on it. I'll just remove the mp3 so it won't load and leave the .mov file. It will be boring without any background music but it really was a bonus. It wasn't required. I'm not really sure how to formulate that as a question to ask here.
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You can do it with hyperlinks, link to: page then export to interactive pdf.
Here is a test:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72277778/Home%20test.pdf

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Creating InDesign interactive pdfs, I'm wondering what the minimum requirements are for the flash plugin to view correctly? Since interactive features appeared in CS5 will interactive pdfs play on older flash plugins for acrobat reader... or does the latest version need to be used.

Ordinary interactive PDF features are still very useful. Buttons, Forms, Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, Transitions all can play in an interactive PDF without the Flash Player.
The only things that require Flash are the animations, Page Turn, Page Curl, placed SWF, and some of the button actions.
But without any of those, the interactive PDF is totally viable. Check out this discussion and the post I wrote:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1280516?tstart=0
Now, what about the future? I don't know. Honestly don't.
I desperately hope that Adobe can figure out some way to use the animations in InDesign in DPS and ePub. HTML 5 would be the most likely option. But right now, if you ask someone from Adobe about inserting animations into DPS, they will tell you about Edge Animator. That's the current flavor of the month for easy-to-create animations. (Although I find ID's animation tools easier.)
PDF is way too entrenched to die. But I do not see the Acrobat team doing anything to change the basic system of interactivity in PDF documents. That code seems set in stone. So, in my opinion, the interactive features that are currently there are all we're going to get. (This is my opinion. I know nothing official.)
I have put in a feature request for some way to use ID's animations in DPS apps. But that's not the ID team. It's the DPS developers. The irony is, however, that non-Adobe plugins for ID do have animation exports for DPS.
OK, I'll step down from the soapbox.

How to Add Media to a Custom Frame That Preserves to Interactive PDF

What I'm doing/trying to do:
I have a custom object that I want to use as a frame in which the video would be placed. The object is a somewhat rectangular frame that I've custom made to fit over a portion of my background image.
Adobe InDesign interactive pdf exports don't play any html embed codings I add (even after making sure the http:// is present) nor does the InDesign accept any of the video from URL links I put in from YouTube or Vimeo using the Add Media function. Therefore I tried using the actual media file and uploading it to my Adobe Indesign file. However, the video won't play or appear in my custom frame when I export it, but the video file will play when I plop it in without a frame. Before exporting I get the message: :
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A) What urls will Adobe Indesign ACTUALLY accept since all the ones I've used so far don't work?
B) How do I add a video file to a custom frame that fits appropriately into the frame?
C) How do I get URL based media to work in interactive pdfs?
D) If I can't do what I'm trying to do as an interactive pdf what file should I be saving it as so that I can make it work?
I hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance for the help!

I have never yet heard of anyone who has successfully played a YouTube or Vimeo streaming video from an interactive PDF. You could search for some kind of a third party utility that claims to convert that to a video format. You should aim to create an MP4 file, preferably with H.264 encoding. I've also never read the description of someone who has done such a conversion, though it is theoretically possible.
You will be unsuccessful in masking a video to play in a non-rectangular frame because in a PDF, the interactivity also is display above anything else on the page.

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