Hidden layers get PDFed anyway

Hello all,



I've been meaning to ask this for a while now:



Whenever I hide InDesign layers; then Export to a PDF; and choose Visible Layers (in the General options); and finish up and OK the producing of the PDF; the dialog immediately warns me that stuff from hidden layers will be in the PDF anyway! Sure enought there is!



Why?



Also, is there a way in Acrobat 8 or 9 Pro to remove an entire layer (OCG, in Acrobat-speak) along with its objects all at once?



I can't find it if it does this.



Mike Witherell in Maryland
Hidden layers get PDFed anyway
Cute, huh?



The hidden stuff is NOT included unless you create a layered PDF. My guess is the engineers figure you want the option of tuning the layers on again.



Peter
Hidden layers get PDFed anyway
Yeah, I wouldn't mind too much, but there seems to be no quick way in Acrobat to remove an entire layer at once. I was forced to use the Touchup tool and delete objects a few at a time. I didn't see where to remove the layer anywhere in the interface.



Mike Witherell in Maryland

Why do you want to preserve the layers in Acrobat?

Early on, I was trying to make a button, that, when clicked, turned on the visibility of one layer while turning off the visibility of another layer. The button was going to alternate the view between Mac screenshots and Windows screenshots.



I couldn't do it and finally gave up on it.



I decided to export the PDF with different layers actively showing, and that is where I ran into the odd trouble of deleting layer objects.



Mike Witherell in Maryland

Ken Grace was doing some stuff with buttons and visibility (though not exactly the same) a few months back. Maybe he has some insight. Seems to me he also gave up on ''real'' buttons.



Peter

The world's spun a few times since then Peter. I'm trying to think back.



I had a raft of buttons on a separate layer forming an index (call these buttons B). I could turn this layer on using a

button (call this button A) on the page in view, and a button on the index layer (call this button C) could then hide it

again.



The PDF was exported with all layers.



The visibility or otherwise was determined by the button options - visible in PDF or hidden.



So button A which turned on the raft of buttons forming the index was set to visible, but all the buttons on the index

raft (buttons B and C) were set to hidden. Mouse down of button A had the behaviour to show each of buttons B and button

C and hide button A - you have to list each event separately in the actions attributed to each button.



Mouse down of button C then hid buttons B and C and showed button A.



The crux I think is what you can define as a ''field'' for the purposes of the Button Option menu %26gt; Behaviors %26gt; Behavior %26gt;

Show/Hide Fields. I was defining buttons as fields. I can't remember/never knew whether you could define a layer as a

field. I think probably not, and you would have to make the contents of a layer a single button or selection of buttons

and then define them initially as visible or not visible in the PDF.



k

clarins