Hotspots in the viewer are clickable regions, which give the user some interaction possibilities. The regions can point to external websites, other viewer files, or any content on the web. Alternatively, you may use them in your development environment to provide an interface (using javascript to connect to your own environment).

In many cases hotspots are used as interactive elements. But they can also be used to embed other content (like videos). The can also contain background images.

The possibility of background images makes it possible to configure the viewer for different end users. If your application can create images with personalized content, you can set up a single viewer with multiple hotspot definitions. And each of those versions would then contain personalized end user information.

 

Hotspot options

 

Hotspots can be used to open a URL, or to call a javascript. The URL can be opened in:

  • A new browser window
  • A frame in the existing browser
  • A popup in the viewer itself

A hotspot can also point to a different page in the save viewer (allowing navigation through the document).

 

Display settings

 

Hotspots can have different settings defining how they are shown to the user:

  • Color and opacity
  • Fill
  • Background image
  • Background video

 

Defining hotspots using structured data

 

You can specify a data file for the hotspots, or enter the structured data into the FLO Media Viewer interface. All options of a hotspot can be set using this structured file.

 

Defining hotspots using InDesign

 

Alternatively, you can also define objects in your InDesign documents which contain the definitions for the hotspot. These definitions can be used to create the hotspots when converting the InDesign document to a viewer. But they can also be exported from the InDesign document, and used as the basis for your structured data file.

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