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Interactive Buttons

I want to show you with that hyperlink on how the hyperlinks can and will and won't tell you if everything is working correctly. The hype update to the hyperlinks panel right here. You can see now that we've got a couple more options here is going to run through this very quickly to show you I'm gonna select an object that I'm gonna turn into a hyper link and go under created new hyperlink. Nothing's changed here, but I'm gonna go in and I'm going to actually type in a URL wrong. So I'm going to go ahead and type and creative live and spell it incorrectly, and I'm gonna click, OK? And over here in my hyperlinks panel, it basically comes up with a red little ball saying, Hey, that's not active, Okay, if you didn't do something right and type it right and if I decide okay, you know I'm going to go in and I'm going todo another u r l someplace on an object and I go and make do it correctly. It's gonna show up as green. So because I'm so fantastic, it typing things, it is going to let me k...

now what works and what doesn't? So there it iss this as you are l that is incomplete, not available. It can't find it Something's wrong or the servers down. This one, it's all good. And I did that. I spelled the 1st 1 wrong. The second was spelled right. So I know exactly how we can go through and check this. And interestingly enough, just last week I was working with a client with interactive pdf's, and they kept having problems with going through. And this is where this surface and I said, I just did my updates. This came up, but I'm like, Oh, this is the really easy way to check. And they said, Ours doesn't do that because we're not using creative cloud. Okay, there you have it yet Another thing. Always make sure you check the updates. Make sure you have them because you could be missing festive little green and red balls, you know? And you know when you miss out on him, OK, you know, there you go. So yet another way to be able to go through and check your files. We're gonna show you how to use the preflight Aziz. Well, when we get done with doing some of our interactive items so we could check all the files, package them all together, right to a pdf, get everything together and done when we wrap up our third day together. Right? So got that updated. Wonderful. So we're not going to go and use hyperlinks or bookmarks anymore. What I've done is we're gonna kind of step it up, and we're going to use a little bit more robust features to make an interactive pdf hyperlinks and bookmarks. Plain simple, easy. But we very quickly ran into the limitations of how the hyperlinks we're going to work for us. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna jump over two buttons and forms here. We're not going to use the forms function of this, but we're going to use the button feature. The button feature is here so that we can go in and we can click on any object on the page, turn it into a button, and then when we have something to do with his button, we can not only make the button do something, but we can actually attach item two that button that when we click on that button it will go someplace. So the button itself can McCall cool and flashy. And it can also do something hyper link. You click on it, it goes there. Hyperlink isn't flashing. So what I've done is I've set up on my master page here. I've set up all of my navigation controls and I'm just going to set my view. Teoh High quality display. So everything renders kind of nicely again. This is on my master page so that I can set up this navigation throughout here without saying Okay, had page two, go to page three or page three, go back to page two, set it up on my master page when I click on the home button is gonna go to the first page when I click on the next page button. It just goes to Don next page, whether it be three or seven. So I'm gonna click on my object here on my master page, and this is my button. I wanted to turn it into a button. I just made these an illustrator. I imported them in their picture. That could be type that could be a boxy making in design makes no difference. What it is. I just decided to make this an illustrator. So I've got my next button here. And in order to add functionality, I go into buttons and forms and I'm going to click on, convert this to a button, this gets converted to a button, and I'm going to name these buttons just like you name everything else. Make sure you go ahead and keep your file nice and clean. So this is I'm going to call my next button. And what's going to happen here is when I click on this button, what do I want to have happen? So it all depends on how I'm using this right now. We're talking about interactivity that's going to be exported to a pdf. So people are going to be using a mouse. So we have release or tab, which is going to be kind of along the IPad. So I'm gonna use on click as my activation item. Okay, so on click or released can work as well. That's where they have released or tap. Because if this we're gonna go to an ipad, wouldn't be doing a pdf for an IPad. By the way, we would do a nap. Totally different thing completely. I'm going to say on release. When I released the mouse, something happens or uncollected. I'm gonna say when the mouse gets released, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to say OK, once somebody clicks on this button and releases the button, what's gonna happen? Someone apply in action and you can see that my action. I have several more actions here rather than just a hyperlink where I'm gonna do this and do that. So what I can do here is I can go to the next page. So when somebody releases the mouse on this button, I'm going to say, Go to the next page on whatever the next page in the document is going to be. It just goes the next page. It's not specific page. It's the next one. Much more general. And I in this case, I don't want specific. I want a very relative page on the next pages. Whatever. When I set this up, I want to make sure that this is going to fit in the window as well. I never want to guide Somebody threw a pdf where the zoom into one page than their zoomed into the next page. Here, every page that I dio I have the control over what's gonna happen in that interactive. Pdf. I never want somebody zoomed in. They're going to miss content when they go to the next page. Inherent zoom is what is checked to begin with there. So if they zoom in big, they will zoom in big again. Not gonna happen. I've got the control over that. It's always going to fit into the window. So the user experience is going to be consistent throughout. And if you've heard about U. Y. Ux and Responsive Design, you know, this is a small part of it right there. I'm controlling the whole interaction of this. So it's all set now I've got that button I click on that. It goes to the next page, I'm gonna click on my home button, and I'm going to turn that into a button and I'm gonna name this as well, and I'm going to have an action that's going to go to the first page in my document. Perfect Not to page one, just the first page and I'm gonna go to my last button here. I need to make sure that I go in. And I that the window, my last button Here, convert that to a button, and this is going to be the back button. And that action on here is going to be Go, Teoh. The previous page, Not the last page. That's less page in the document of the last page we visited. But the previous page right there. Great. So that's also going to fit in the window right there. Since I've done this on the master page here, it's going to be on all my pages and everything works. But how do I actually test this? Do I have to keep exporting this to a pdf every single time? Well, you can. But also under the interactive window here. We can go in and we can call up our preview window so I can actually see how this works. And by the way, down here at the bottom of your buttons and forms to we have our little preview window right there, and we'll call it up there, too. Okay, so here's my preview window, and now I'm ready to rock and roll. And just when you thought it's like this easy. Here's the crazy part. Down here in your preview window, you got to make sure you got the right little icon selected, because now I can go ahead and I can set the mode in which I'm going to be previewing here. If I pre set the preview selection mode, that only means I'm gonna preview what I have selected. If I have the page preview mode, I'm only going to be previewing that page. If I want to preview the entire document. I got to click on the specific mode, frustrating when you start off, you may have done it correctly, but you may not be looking at it quite right. You don't have all the switches flip. It's like good grief. You know, I'm gonna set it on document bowed so I can go through my entire document boat instead of saying only previewed page one. That's all you get. So I'm gonna set it on the document mode right here, and then I'm gonna go and I'm gonna press play and it's going to be It's gonna work. Let's see. So I'm gonna hold her over my next button. I click on that and it goes in. I know what I did. Sorry. I set this up except, like, I gotta fix that. I had a hyperlink here, and this hyperlink was going all over those buttons. I have to take that on there, folks. It happens. OK? Hyperlinks right there. Knew I took the one out. They didn't take the other one out. OK, now I'm going to see how this works again. Okay? Make sure a preview to spread press play. Now I click on this button and it should go to next one. OK? Because I had the next one right there. And sure enough it goes. The next one, I click the home button. It goes home Next page. Next page I click back. It goes back. Awesome. That's how it's supposed to work when you take off your hyperlink. That's covering everything. So that works good. I've seen my preview. It works really well now because they had created these items on the master page on the very first page of my document here. It's like, Well, I don't need my home button and I don't mean my back button. Take him off shift command Click will unlock that one. I just simply take it off. Take it off. That one right there. So on the first page, all I have is that on the last page, I'm going to go down and I'm going to go the last page and I'm just gonna take off the next button because there is no next. And since they're all of the master page, I can release them from the master page. Get rid of them if I want them back. Dragged a master page back onto the page. In my template, everything's back right where it is, how it all comes around full circle. It's awesome. So now have established my buttons through here. And every look, everything looks absolutely great. This is gonna work when they exported to a pdf. I've got my navigation all the way through here. That simple. But I want to have a little bit more fun here. I want to create some interactivity with the button here. That's not just you. Just click on the button there. I want something toe happen with the button. As I go, I'm gonna show you a really basic way that we can create an interactive button. We won't apply any action to it as of yet, but we're just gonna make this button look cool. In so many cases, when somebody clicks on a button, you have the static button. They hover over it. It does something when they click on it. All of a sudden, it, like, gets all devil, Indian, bossy and then, like, inverts. And you're just like, Oh, my gosh, How do they do that? Well, this is how you can do that. I'm just gonna create a basic container here, and I'm going to turn this into a button. And so this button, I am going to choose a fill color on this. I'm gonna make the button yellow, and I'm gonna put a border around the whole thing, and that's going to have a black border on it right there. And I may put some type in it as well, and you can create however you want to do this. So I'm gonna center that and I'm also going to go to my text rain centering right there. And now I've got a button that says click. OK, so now I'm going to go to my buttons in forms and then click on that. So now I've got my click button and what I want to click a button to Dio don't know yet, but it's really boring when people hover over it. I want to see some interaction with this item. So in my appearance of my buttons, I can have just a static button of how it looks in normal about this is how it's going to look. But what happens if somebody rolls over it with the mouse? I wanted to do something, so I'm gonna activate the rollover appearance here and now in the rollover appearance. I can change any appearance of this button. So it's on Lee going to appear in this roll over state. I am not creating a new button here. It's the same button. I am just changing attributes in this particular view. Okay, we will end up with three different views in here, all of the same button. So when I click on the roll over here on the roll over, what I'd like it to Dio is I like it. Teoh go ahead and is going to change color, but also to the word click is going to become bold and it's going to be reversed out to white. Okay, there it is. So I did not create a new button. That's how it looked under normal. This is how it looked under. Roll over. And you may think that I need to create a new button. You know, it's the same button. We're just changing appearance. I know. How can you have a button that's exactly the same and be three different things in the different appearance modes. Now, when somebody clicks this button here now, I'd like it to look something totally different. What I'm going to do is I'm going to shut off my border all around this button, I'm going to you put a great little outer glow effect around it. So it's going to create a nice little puddle all around that, and I'm going to preview this, so I'm gonna have an outer glow on this under multiply mode, and I'm going to set the size of this and I don't want it in white right there. Techniques after eyes spread right there. Why is that not working for me? Outer glow on the outer glow multiply. So there we go. OK, so there is my outer glow showing right there. And so this is on click. We need to get some really bright color. So what's going to become red? And my click is going to become bold as well, And I may change it to Wow. Okay, so there's my button on normal. They loaded into the pdf. You see this? You hover over with your mouse. That's what you're going to see. And when you actually click on it, you get Wow. Okay, so those of the different methods we can have here on this button I haven't said it to do anything yet, but I make it look really cool. So what I want to do with this, Okay. When I click on this button, well, I'm going to choose some type of action that I want to have. And if you really want to have fun here, I can go in on release. I can go and say, Okay, go to a page, play a sound, play a video, do certain things, you know, printed forms of middle form, close up. My file erased my hard drive. Send on my context, everybody. I don't have a lot of options here. So what I could do was I could basically say OK, you know, go to a certain place. Like when you click on this button, it's going to go to a U R l. Okay, so this is very much like a hyperlink. It's not technically a hyperlink, but it is. So I'm gonna go to a destination. So what kind of destination do I wanna have? Do you know, where do I want to put it? So I have to determine where that destination is going to be, and a destination is technically on Anchor. Someplace didn't set that anchor, but we're gonna get some type of action going here. So if I want to go Teoh say, print the form. So when I click on this, it's gonna go and you call it my dialog box. I'm gonna be able to print the form and go to it or open a file right there. Someone choose print. So when you click on this button, it's gonna call my print dialog box and I can print, So I got that. So it's my click button. That's what is going to look like Normal. Roll over and click. Awesome. So what a preview this click on my little preview. Gonna go there? I'm gonna make sure you see the preview, spread their press play, let the whole thing happen. But hover over that. There it is. Held her over. I get that. Now if I click on it. Wow. Now something very important here. And so I roll over. This doesn't work on an IPad. There is no roll over, OK, it's either touch or no touch. So this is only gonna work when I'm dealing with the mouse. One very important thing that I have here and I cannot stress this enough. The event that I chose is on release, not on click. If I click this, what's gonna happen is that wow, that shows up. He's gonna disappear just like that, because the action is gonna happen when I click. I said on release of the mouth. So when I roll over this and I click, I haven't released the mouse, so nothing's gonna happen at this point. But if it's on click, it's gonna happen, is gonna go right to whatever action I told it to. If I want you to interact with this thing and I want you to see the wow when you click, then I want to have on release. Nothing's gonna happen until you let go The mouse let go the mouse. Then it would go ahead and do it a print to go to the page Whatever I want it to dio so very simple, Very easy direction to go with that. There we have it. Now I want to do the same thing with my little home back and forward buttons here. So what I had done over the break here is I just put these in my master page and everything was nice and simple because these air created an illustrator. I actually have to create other arrows that have different colors in them because I can't edit this directly and in design. You weren't created in design. I can't edit them and in design. So instead of just changing the attributes of these, I literally will go in here and say OK on rollover, what's gonna happen here? And I will take my rollover state and I'm going to go under file place and I'm going to place in my new arrow right here. So I'm gonna do my right arrow orange, and it's going to go right into that right there that I want. Teoh replace that. There we go. So final place, right arrow, orange and I had taken my left arrow here and I had just flipped it over. That's what I had done. So place left arrow as could be left Arrow orange. Great. There's my left air orange on rollover. Then on click I can then click on that and import my red arrow, my left arrow red, and put it in there. So there's my normal There's my roll over and there's my click before I just change the box. This I actually went and imported three separate files because these were all created in Illustrator on. I would do that for each and every one of those items. So the home button I would go in, click on Rollover. DoubleClick, going to file place grabbed my home orange for rollover. Do my click here, click on that double click, place the file, and because I'm placing this file right on into this, it's swapping out one for the other. So there's my home. There's my roll over and there is my click. You have to make sure that if you want your object placed into that rollover state, you have that selected. If you have something other selected, it will replace. What's in there is very important. This is still one box, one container on. The only way you're going to see what's in there is based on what it is that you have selected. So you get the point with these. And now when I go in my document here, I'm not going to see anything because this is gonna be by my normal state. If I print this out, that's what I have. Let me click on the play button, go through you all of this press play. We've already seen this. Have to wait for it. Toe load right here. It takes a while. There it is. Click now on this. There it is. There's roll over. There's click and everything works. Course on release. It's gonna go to the next page. So there's rollover. Click roll over, Click. Awesome, huh? Absolutely Love it. So now when we export this there, it's gonna work. Just find someone export this just to do this. When you're doing this, I cannot stress enough how important it is. Do not go gangbusters and do everything and then export the file. Make sure you've got those things dialed in perfectly before you duplicate before you go and spread it over everything before you get everything done. Test test test. Because if something goes wrong and you propagated through entire document guess what, you get to do it all over again. So I'm gonna choose file export, which is command e the name my file. Something that's barely legible. Export. It is an interactive pdf here. Click Save View After exporting fit to Page. I don't want to open in full screen mode. One include all my forms and media. Everything else I click. OK, go through a litany of things that is yelling at me for export the entire thing. Open it up. It's a pdf right there. I click and I let go. There's my print dialog box because I told on that action. Go ahead and print. It did exactly like I wanted it to Next page Here I hover over it. People like, Wow, isn't that awesome? No, not really. But it is if you don't know how it's done, you know Now what? You know how to do what you're like. Well, it's simple. It's just a little file that just says, you know, show up when I click the light switch on and you tell somebody, you know, this is just like a light switch. They're like, OK, it's no longer fun, you know? I know. Click on that. And I noticed every time I click, it turns red. So I know the action has happened, but I just hover over them and they just turned yellow. So now I know there's some type of interactivity, but it's really cool, because now I know when my action is complete, because I actually see something else. Next page. Next page, next page. Next page. You know, if I had set this back? Yep. I don't have any interactivity off the button right there. I can do that right there. Nice and simple.