Interactive button layer orders

when i create a button in indesign, it ignores the layer information i've specified, instead moving the newest button to the top layer no matter where it resides in the layer pallet.
it also floats it on top of all other page data - master or individual - no matter what layer those items are on as well. all my master page items are on the topmost layer while all the buttons are on the bottom layer, however all the buttons will float above the master page items.
i've experimented with this and created a /new/ layer, put it on the very top and created a new box (the newest item on the page), but when i export the PDF, all the buttons are floating on top still.
what's going on?

We had the same problem -- how do you influence the "stacking order" of the buttons?
You can't do that with layers, or with anything else from within InDesign. I think the reason for that is that the "buttons" in the PDF become a mere rectangle list, which has nothing (!) to do with the 'elements' you apply them to. You can see this for yourself if you create a button in Acrobat -- just draw any rectangle, and that's it.
If you have buttons on your master page and you don't want them on certain pages, you will have to delete them manually.

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Thunderstruck200 <[email protected]

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