Create an Interactive PDF with Rollover Pop-ups

today I'm going to show you how to create an interactive PDF with mouse rollovers such as these and we're going to use Adobe Illustrator and also Adobe Acrobat Pro DC so we'll go ahead and start in Illustrator we're gonna go to file place and we're gonna choose just a simple background image for our scene so click and drop and drag that here and we're going to size it up so it takes up all the artboard we're going to come over to the layers tab and just rename this scene and we'll rename this my map now we'll just add some map pins to our map so we'll come up to file place and just choose a map pen icon now we're going to place this around the map we're going to come down here control-c control-v to copy and paste it in a few different spots and now what we're going to do is rename these layers so let's call this one city I'll call this one boating and we'll call this one camping ok now we're just going to come over here to the rectangle tool and select a line segment tool and we're just gonna create some lines we're gonna come up to this stroke tool just to make this a bit thicker or select a white color and we'll create these lines a couple more times and these lines are going to come to some text that we add in next so again we need to rename this just so we know which layer matches which layer so we'll call this one camping line boating and city line what we're going to do now is bring in some texts so we're going to go to the type tool and create a text box here I'll call this one city I'm just gonna make it a bit bigger and we'll come over here and hold shift to bring down this drop dialog here and she's a white color or center it and now what we're gonna do is just control C control V on a PC to your copy and paste it just rename it and so this line that we see here and also our text they're going to appear when we scroll over the map pins so we're gonna do that next winner in Adobe Acrobat but we'll just finish off here first well you might doing now is just create some background boxes for our text here just so we can see the text a bit better so it stands out so using the rectangle tool which has created this box will give it a color perhaps the orange color some matches the pin we're gonna come over here and rename it so that we know which text this box is for so this is for the city this is for the city text rollover we're going to drag and bring it down underneath the city layer this what stands out and copy and paste and do the same thing again for the other layers so I just need to rename them so we keep everything nice and neat because after this we're going to group the layers together and we're dragging it down underneath that text layers copy and paste in one more time bring it underneath and this all looks good so what we need to do next is you can see here we've got quite a number of layers we need to group these layers so we're going to come down to create new layer and create a layer outside of our scene group so we'll call this one the city hover so this is going to be the layers that appear when we roll over the map point for the city so we're going to select them all ctrl click on a PC and click and drag and drop into the city hover box and now you can see they're all grouped in there we can turn that on and off so that's how it's going to appear when we roll over this map pen it's gonna appear like this but that's the next step so we'll create another layer for our last two here so our boding hover we're gonna select our boating layers hold ctrl and select them all and click and drag and drop them in to that so they're all working fine and we're gonna create a new layer one more time and we're gonna drop the camping layers into there and that's all working fine we're gonna leave our map pins here because we want them to be visible at all times but we need to turn off these top three layers that we've created in order for Adobe Acrobat to be able to make them appear when we roll over them so we're going to turn them off and now we're gonna save this as a PDF or just give it a name and we'll save this now here is a setting that we need to make sure is always checked for this to work properly create Acrobat layers from top-level layers that needs to be ticked you can choose any compression settings you want in there but that bottom setting I just mentioned has to be enabled for this to work properly so we'll save that will come into Acrobat Pro and open our map that we just saved and then we're going to come over here to this view layers tab we're gonna click on this and you'll see here that we have our three layers that we can turn on our camping city and voting layers if you don't have these visible here it means you haven't set up the PDF properly in Illustrator so you have to go back and do that again we're going to come into tools and click on prepare form and then click start and now we're going to create our hover zones for the rollovers so first we need to turn on this first one here city hover and we're going to come up to the button tool where we're gonna click this and now we're gonna draw the zone where we want the mouse to roll over and activate the text so we'll call this city hover we'll click on properties and we want to get rid of that gray background so we'll come to appearance click fill color and no color and in options you need to make sure label only is selected now we need to set here Mouse enter and for our select action we need to scroll down and choose set layer visibility and we now click Add and click OK and now we can now close this box now what we have to do is come over and turn this layer off come back into the hover box we just created but for the trigger we need to choose mouse exit and set layer visibility ad and that one is now complete so we're going to do the same steps again for the other two layers here so the boating hopper will come up we're choosing the button we're drawing our rollover zone so the zone the mouse wall will go over to bring up the text we're gonna get rid of the fill color here and we're gonna click mouse enter for the trigger and set layer visibility add okay and close that or turn off the layout come back into the layer and mouse exit add now that one is also complete so we're gonna do our final layer now the camping over we'll draw our over zone here I'll get rid of the background fill color and we want to set and mouse enter to enable this to appear when we roll over now we're gonna close it turn off the layer come back into it and on mouse exit click Add so this will enable it to the text to disappear once the mouse moves off it so we're going to come into preview here and you'll be able to see our finished product thank you

Channel: Angus Ashton Film

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Keywords: pdf, rollover, interactive, buttons, pop up, illustrator, adobe, acrobat, mouse, animate, .pdf, acrobat pro, hover, popup, roll over, pdf rollover popups, interactive pdf, mouse rollover pdf

Id: TZpmM3Fbqcg

Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 24 2020