Making a button in indesign go to a specific page in exported PDF

Sorcy picture Sorcy · Sep 4, 2012 · Viewed 64.8k times · Source

In InDesign I can define buttons and can add different actions to them. One of these actions is "go to page", but apparently that function is only usable when exporting the InDesign document as an SWF. However, we want to export an interactive PDF.

When we open the exported PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional we can touch up each and every button in the document and set the page to the page we want, but this is of course extremely tedious work, especially when you have several proving runs.

So, my question is: how do I get my buttons in InDesign to jump to a specific page without having to do the touch up late in Adobe Acrobat Professional? Surely it must be possible to navigate between pages?!

Answer

Menno van Ginkel picture Menno van Ginkel · Sep 13, 2012

I stumbled on this issue a while back too, and i figured out how to link to a place in an interactive PDF document via Buttons:

1) Create Bookmarks on the pages you want to link to. (I usually make a text in the top of the page in 'paper color' and create a bookmark from that)

2) Button action "Go to destination" -> Bookmark

Hope this helps...