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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO
Forms
Making buttons change appearance
A button can have a label, an icon, or both. You can change how the button appears in each mouse state (Up, Down,
and Rollover). For example, you could create a button that has a "Home" label until the pointer is moved over the
button, when it might have a "Click to return to Home page" label.
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Button layouts
A. Label only B. Icon only C. Icon top, label bottom D. Label top, icon bottom E. Icon left, label right F. Label left, icon right G. Label over
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You can make button icons from any file format that Acrobat can display, including PDF, JPEG, GIF, and other image
formats. For whichever format you select, the entire page is used, so if you want to use only a portion of a page as an
icon, you need to crop the image or page before carrying out this procedure. The smallest allowable PDF page size is
1-by-1 inch (2.54-by-2.54 cm). If you want the icon to appear smaller than 1-by-1 inch, scale it to fit the size of the box
drawn with the button tool. Clicking Advanced in the Options tab of the Button Properties dialog box lets you
determine how a button icon is scaled to fit inside a button.
Edit a button
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Select the Button field, and then do any of the following:
• To edit the properties for the button field, double-click the button.
• To change the appearance of buttons, use the appearance options in the Appearance tab of the Button Properties
dialog box.
• To align, center, or distribute the button with other form fields, or to resize or duplicate the button, right-click the
button, and then choose an option from the context menu.
More Help topics
"Scale and position
buttons" on page 210
Specify Acrobat button display properties
Make sure you are in edit mode by selecting Forms > Add Or Edit Fields, and then click the Select Object tool
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Double-click an existing button, and then click the Options tab in the Button Properties dialog box.
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For Layout, choose the type of label display you want. (For information on scaling button icons, see the next
procedure.)
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For Behavior, specify the display of the button when clicked.
To define the label or icon that appears on the button, do the following:
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• If a label option is selected from the Layout menu, type the text in the Label box.
• If an icon option is selected from the Layout menu, click Choose Icon, click Browse, and select the file. (Click Clear
to remove the selected icon.)
Button Behavior options
Keeps the appearance of the button the same.
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