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on 29/10/03 4:24 AM, sbrooks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm making a Medical dictionary in a PDF file for a client to hand out (it > will be distributed on one of those credit-card-sized CDs). We've made a > short Flash animation (a commercial) that is supposed to run on one of the > pages. > > My first approach was to use the Movie Link button and link it to a .mov > file that was stored in the same folder as the PDF file. That worked fine. I'm confused ... you have a Flash file but you are linking t a .mov ? On the Mac QT will playback Flash files as Apple have integrated Flash as a supported track in QT since version 4 (?) But there is no need to convert the Flash file to a .mov Flash is a supported media type in Acrobat 6 and can be insert or link those (and any) movies. > But, when I tested it on all three PCs in the office (we're a Mac shop and > it was developed on a Mac) I found that only one of the three PCs had > QuickTime installed and or setup on the machines. That's about the average ratio of install for QT on PCs > How should I best do this for wide distribution in a predominantly Windows > world? If it were my project I would be setting Acrobat6 as a minimum and use the actual Flash files rather than convert to a bitmap movie. That way you keep the highest quality, lowest file size and get all the other aspects of Acrobat 6. on 29/10/03 5:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> *.avi is the most common among Windows PCs. .avi has largely been relegated to a 'capture' codec these days. That is, it is used to capture video at full resolution from cameras and tapes for editing and transfer between systems. As a 'delivery' codec it is horribly inefficient and low in quality even at quite high data rates. If you want a ubiquitous and high quality file on the PC that plays everywhere, MPEG-1 would be a better option. Unfortunately (for the above project) MPEG-1 is only supported in Acrobat 6 .... and so you may as well use the original Flash file ! ;-) regards dean laffan r e a l w o r l d p r o d u c t i o n s 6 7 l i t t l e g e o r g e s t, f i t z r o y m e l b o u r n e, a u s t r a l i a, 3 0 6 5 ph +613-9419-3966 Mobile 0418-525-315 -- It said on the box: 'Requires Windows 95 or better' ... so I bought a Mac ! To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
