Object states in interactive PDF?

Is it possible or will it be a feature soon? I know I can essentially accomplish the same thing hiding buttons, but I have some very complicated object states in my interactive swf files and would like to publish them to PDF so they can be viewed on an iPad. Will this feature ever happen?

Don't hold your breath. PDF is now an ISO standard which means that it won't change quickly. There is no concept in PDF to support object states.
Also you should know that the PDF readers on the iPad don't support much if any interactivity.
You best best is creating a publication with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. That would be more difficult to learn than PDF and more expensive. To learn more about it, see this link:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60174dc2eb12f2ca67c28-80 00.html
This technology supports slides shows like you can create with the Object Styles panel.

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Hello. I have a multi-state object set up. I've placed buttons over a central map on my page, with links to the proper multi-states in the object below. This works within the Preview Pane when I preview the interactivity. However, when i export non of the buttons bring up any multi-state.
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I ended up creating a separate page for each State of the Multi-State object. A pain, yes, but it works, then you create the same illusion, but just have the buttons set to jump to a page and not a "state" within the same page. The MSO's are not that fancy that they should require Flash. I hope that Adobe works on this to make Interactive PDFs more robust in functionality, and in how we prep files. Creating a separate page for each "state" exponentially increases the document size.

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I have created an online Interactive SWF file using Indesign for a corporate Newsletter and it works fine.
However, when asked if I could produce a PDF version I thought "sure, just convert it to an Interactive PDF!"
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None of the Buttons created to go to different pages worked anymore, I had to remove the button states from the objects and convert them using Hyperlinks and Hyperlink Destinations, a lot of work.
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If you spent any time looking at these features you would have seen that they are clearly SWF only.
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Please help. I am making a resume after recently graduating college. I have made the entire resume other than the "portfolio" page. I wanted to make the page show small images of my work, than when you roll over them they expand to show a larger image. I wanted to do this to show my progression with InDesign to potential employers, however, when I save the entire resume as an interactive .pdf the last "portfolio" page shows up blank every time. I have trouble shooted the process dozens of times to the point I want to pull my hair out. I made another new file separate from my resume which shows a white page. I put two pics only and when I previewed the buttons they worked fine, just like on my resume, but when I export the simple two pic document to an interactive .pdf the page comes up blank or black. The furthest I have made it is to have the smaller pics show up and when I hovered over them the pointer turns to a hand but no larger image shows up. I know it is in the exporting process cause I can get the buttons to work perfectly in the preview. WHAT am I doing WRONG??? Thanks.

Hi there,
Do you have any screen grabs of what is going wrong?
From what I can understand, the first page is your standard text resume and then on the second page you have your portfolio.
But your portfolio is not working. The rollover to expand to show a larger image may be the cause of your issue. I've had tear my hair out moments also with trying to do this.
You could try to have the button images along the top or side of your second page and then get them to load into a larger frame below or to the side of the buttons. You can do this using Multi State objects. This may get you out of the bind you're in now.
To get a Multi State object to work in an interactive pdf you need to export the MSO (Multi State object) to swf and then add that swf to your interactive pdf export that and then you should be in business.
I'm going to knock up a basic mockup of one and put a screen grab in the reply to better explain this.
I've got the buttons up on top, you click on these to move through the portfolio of images. I've got five you may have more or less.
Select all the images and add them to the media panel to make a MSO.
Select each of the buttons and in the buttons panel add an action to go to a state, do this for each of the buttons.
Export the MSO doc as a swf, create a new doc (same dimensions) add the swf and then export as an interactive pdf (make sure to set a poster image in the media panel otherwise you'll get a weird grey flash symbol in your pdf)
Open the pdf and test to make sure it's what you want.
Obviously your portfolio / resume will look a hell of a lot better than this, this is just a proof of concept.
Here is a link to the files I used as a test.
WeTransfer
Hope this all makes sense.
John.

Slideshow in interactive pdf (PDF is not a slideshow)

Hi, I am looking to create a slideshow in interactive pdf.
My first try i used images and created an object state. I exported it to test and it didnt work. The only way this option would work is to save as .swf. I dont want document to be a swf but pdf. So I found another solution to save the slideshow seperate as a swf and place into the pdf. It works. exported and it works. This seems to be the better way.
Now the only issue is that when I open the interactive pdf, the slideshow shows up as a flash button. You have to click on it for the slideshow to show up but it does work.
Is there a better way, or is there a way to automatically show the slideshow vs the flash button.
Ive uploaded it to drop box here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pkoqrb6n1ndpsqn/sAUk-gDPky
Thanks

There's nothing you can do about this. It's a security setting and is set by each individual.
I would avoid SWF like the plague. It won't play on mobile devices at all.
Bob

Interactive PDF increases video size

Hello,
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After placing them in InDesign CS5 and exporting them as an interactive PDF, settings for original size, the quality of the video is unbearable, because the size increased to 1190 x 716 px at 100 % magnification. I have no idea why that happens.
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I tested your file, and created one of my own with an MP3 file.
Your complaint is that the Preview panel only requires a single click while in the PDF, activating the button requires a double-click. The Preview panel is Flash-driven using InDesign CS5's Flash run-time implementation. So what it really previews accurately are SWF files. While much of it will also apply to PDF previewing, there are many kinds of interactivity (e.g., multi-state objects or animations) that preview fine but don't work at all in PDF. There are other things like this work "similarly" but not exactly. It's really NOT a PDF previewer though you can use it to some extent.
I hadn't encountered this problem in CS5 because I hadn't used buttons to activate sounds in Acrobat 9 or Acrobat X. If you create a button to play a video (I used F4V) a single click plays it. For MP3's, a single click seems to "select" the sound, but it requires a double-click to play it. I have no reason why that should be.
Notice also that you can pause over the sound or video itself, and a tooltip tells you "Click to activate."

InDesign interactive pdf viewable?

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...This is a newsletter, distributed by email. NOT mobile browsers, phones etc.
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Exporting Interactive PDF

Been trying to export an Interactive PDF but non of the interactive elements work. I've implemented simple roll-overs for a few images, and when I view it in preview it all works fantastic, however once I export the Interactive PDF non of the interactivity works.
This is the first time i've worked using Interactive PDF's and i'm pulling my hair out trying to troubleshoot this issue without much luck finding any revelant information online.

What version of InDesign? What kind of interactivity are you creating?
Be aware that some forms of interactivity do not work in Interactive PDF. Animations and Object States do not work.
You should be able to do buttons, page transitions, hyperlinks, bookmarks, media (video and audio if you choose the correct format).
There is a workaround for animations and object states: You can export them as a SWF file, then place them into the InDesign file and export PDF.
BTW, there is a lot of information in the InDesign Help file. Start there.

ID CS6: Interactive PDF Buttons -- Random Errors

I'm creating a 50+ page catalog of tshirt designs. There are 4 rows of designs on each page (total 28 image objects), as well as a single preview area to the right of the rows which I've setup to show a closeup of design on rollover of the corresponding image in the row. So, I've set each image in the row as a button, as well as corresponding closeup image which is set to show on roll over and hide on roll off.
My issue is that we are having what I can best describe as random glitches / errors with the buttons when exporting to interactive pdf. I say random, because the errors are not consistent; you can open the file and 1 of the closeup images will be mistakenly showing until you roll over the corresponding image, yet you can open the same file again, and that issue will not be happening again. Another issue would be that a row of images (that should always be showing) will randomly not show on a page, but if you scroll to the next page and then back, they will be there.
For these reasons, I'm fairly certain that it is not an error in our setup, but simply a glitch. Is there any sort of "save" setting that would eliminate these errors?
FYI: we are viewing the pdf on acrobat x pro and adobe reader on both windows 7 and windows 8.

Hi there,
Do you have any screen grabs of what is going wrong?
From what I can understand, the first page is your standard text resume and then on the second page you have your portfolio.
But your portfolio is not working. The rollover to expand to show a larger image may be the cause of your issue. I've had tear my hair out moments also with trying to do this.
You could try to have the button images along the top or side of your second page and then get them to load into a larger frame below or to the side of the buttons. You can do this using Multi State objects. This may get you out of the bind you're in now.
To get a Multi State object to work in an interactive pdf you need to export the MSO (Multi State object) to swf and then add that swf to your interactive pdf export that and then you should be in business.
I'm going to knock up a basic mockup of one and put a screen grab in the reply to better explain this.
I've got the buttons up on top, you click on these to move through the portfolio of images. I've got five you may have more or less.
Select all the images and add them to the media panel to make a MSO.
Select each of the buttons and in the buttons panel add an action to go to a state, do this for each of the buttons.
Export the MSO doc as a swf, create a new doc (same dimensions) add the swf and then export as an interactive pdf (make sure to set a poster image in the media panel otherwise you'll get a weird grey flash symbol in your pdf)
Open the pdf and test to make sure it's what you want.
Obviously your portfolio / resume will look a hell of a lot better than this, this is just a proof of concept.
Here is a link to the files I used as a test.
WeTransfer
Hope this all makes sense.
John.

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