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Interactive PDF buttons and default outlines

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:30:58 GMT

I'm trying to make a straight forward ebook in Indesign cs5.5 for a touch screen, consisting of a series of images. The only functionality it needs to have for now is browsing up and down.

I made two big rectangular buttons with opacity set to 0%, 1/3 of the from the right of the screen = next, 1/3 from the left of the screen = previous page.

All works, but now there's this ugly default dashed line that pops up every time you tap one of the buttons. I can't find anything on this topic, but surely there must be a way to hide this? It's weird to have this dotted line overuling my designed rollover states.

Flash does not suffer from this default button outline, but I would prefer to make a pdf out of it. Any suggestions?

Example of the outline on a mouse click on a Windows Vista machine with Acrobat X or if opened in a browser. (In Safari on OSX I see a grey transprarent rectangle instead of the dashed line).

Remove dashed outline default roll over state for pdf buttons

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:32:52 GMT

When making buttons in an interactive pdf from Indesign, there's a system default roll over state that can not be hidden as far as I know.

It is so common that you will not be aware of it in most occasions. However, when making non rectangular shapes or invisible buttons as part of an image, it can be annoying.

As Indesign CS5.5 gives me the option to design all roll over states, I wish not to see this dashed line to pop up at a mouse click. I have no idea what part of the line is responsible for this to show up... Indesign or the pdf display software? It would be great to get full control and hide this line on demand.

Flash got it right. When exporting the document as a swf, the button will look exactly as designed, without the dashed outline roll over state.

Interactive PDF buttons and default outlines

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:05:59 GMT

I'm trying to make a straight forward ebook in Indesign cs5.5 for a touch screen, consisting of a series of images. The only functionality it needs to have for now is browsing up and down.

I made two big rectangular buttons with opacity set to 0%, 1/3 of the from the right of the screen = next, 1/3 from the left of the screen = previous page.

All works, but now there's this ugly default dashed line that pops up every time you tap one of the buttons. I can't find anything on this topic, but surely there must be a way to hide this? It's silly to have this dotted line popping by up by default when you can have full control over rollover states.

Any suggestions?