InDesign: How to Create Pop-Ups for Interactive Documents (Video Tutorial)

In this InDesign video, Laurie Ruhlin shows how to quickly make a pop-up box—for a photo caption in this example—to be used in an interactive document. By making objects into buttons, she uses the Hide/Show Button action to turn off and on elements as the buttons are selected. This will work when exporting to an interactive format like fixed-layout EPUB, HTML, or Publish Online, as well as PDFs when viewed with a capable reader app.

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[chrismerlo]

Finally. A tutorial that simply cut straight to the steps, told them clearly, made it easy to understand, and didn't fill over half the video with useless talk. Thank you!!!

[MaryBaker]

This is a wonderful tutorial. Thank you for clearly breaking down all the steps. Greatly appreciated!

[designwithamandeep]

Thankyou very much for this amazing quick trick

[ZoranImsiragic]

I had the idea to achieve similar with the Object States, but this is great. Thanks for the tip! 👍

[WhiteSpotPirates]

Great, thanks a lot! I tried to do this with a video pop up but it did not seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch!

[danielfirmino]

Adorei o tutorial, muito simples e bem explicado. Eu criei um PDF Interativo e o mesmo deu certo no meu notebook. Todavia, ao enviar a um celular android e Iphone, em ambos os botões não funcionaram. Somente hyperlinks para sites, páginas ou redes sociais funcionam. Realmente este demonstrativo não funciona em PDF Interativo? Abraços e que Deus abençoe!!!

[ccamirobless]

Hi i have a rare problem (i think)... i followed this tutorial and it works, but when i did another page with others buttons and i open de epub preview it doesn't work, i don't know why, and i want to ask you if you heard about something like this and know how to solve it.

Anyway thank you for the tutorial!

[tay]

How do I make this work in other readers outside of adobe acrobat?

[teyaboobooo]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! It's really clear and easy to follow. I'm using it for my midterm project and turns out excellent! Thanks again