I don't believe you can embed media in PDF files--but I'm no expert on PDF.
-- Excuse brevity. Sent from mobile device. On Sep 11, 2015 9:17 AM, "Flavia Majlis" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your help, Peter. Since we have pretty large tables to > display, we thought that maybe a pdf file would be a solution. The tables > are indeed displayed perfectly in the pdf output in the tablets, but I was > not able to embed videos into the pdf documents using DocBook. > Is there any way to embed media for pdf output using DocBook? > Thank you! > Flavia > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Peter Lavin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Flavia, >> >> I've used DocBook to produce EPUB 3.0 files and opened them on Android >> phones (Nexus 4 and Nexus 5) and on a Nexus 7 tablet using both Google >> Books and the Aldiko reader without experiencing any issues. Tables >> are problematic on any device especially smaller ones often requiring >> that you limit the number of columns. I haven't embedded media files >> in ebooks so can't speak to that issue. >> >> Many ereaders don't fully support CSS 3--and that has been my >> experience with Aldiko--so that may possibly be an issue. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> On 10 September 2015 at 16:53, Flavia Majlis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I am using DocBook to create ePub files. The ePub can be viewed >> perfectly on >> > iOS devices (iPhone 6 and iPad, with iBooks) but I could not find an >> ePub >> > reader that would format the ePub document properly on the Android >> device. >> > We tried many ePub readers, but they would either not be able to format >> the >> > tables properly, or they would not play the videos from the ePub >> file... Any >> > ideas? >> > Thank you so much! >> > Flavia >> > >> > -- >> > Flavia Majlis, >> > MSc, Computer Science, McGill University >> > BFA, Photography, Concordia University >> > >> > www.flaviamajlis.com >> > cabinetphoto.org >> > www.simlog.com >> > >> > 1.514.909.6101 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Peter Lavin >> Telephone: 1 416 461 4991 >> Mobile: 1 416 882 9194 >> Skype: peter.lavin >> (GMT -05:00 Canada/US Eastern) >> > > > > -- > Flavia Majlis, > MSc, Computer Science, McGill University > BFA, Photography, Concordia University > > www.flaviamajlis.com > cabinetphoto.org > www.simlog.com > > 1.514.909.6101 >
