Re: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-21 Thread nik crosina
Sounds possible. Would most situations / people not use PowerPoint for presentations though? And for kiosks you could make a good case for playing the .swf directly via flashplayer, or through a wrapper like Zinc or Director. Just trying to find the advantages of animated PDFs over mroe widely

Re: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-18 Thread nik crosina
Hi, My initial goal was really to find out if swf in pdf is a feasible product to offer to our clients, after my boss seems to think it is particularly sexy. After doing a bit of research I have to say that while it does seem to work, I am still not entirely clear how to create properly, and

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Watts
My thinking is that if this would work as well as ti seems to look, people would use it a lot more. I have the feeling that swf in PDF - while not mutually exclusive - they technologies that are use in two different ways. PDF is still a mainstay of print quality material (so I send you a

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-17 Thread Nimrod Huberman
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nik crosina Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:49 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs Thanks Dave, So I gather that this is not really a medium to send out to the general public because of the Adobe Reader verison

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-17 Thread John Dowdell
Nimrod Huberman wrote: I don't know your specific goal Neither do I. My email is a little disrupted right now, and I came in at Dave Watt's reply. I saw questions about whether anyone else is doing things with SWF in PDF, but got confused at the objection to using Adobe Reader. I'm not

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Watts
I have come across swf's embedded in PDFs, and in the process of doing a little research - is that taking off now, or is it a small specialist area? You can embed several types of multimedia content in PDFs. I wouldn't say it's taking off; neither is it a small specialist area. If you want

Re: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-16 Thread nik crosina
Thanks Dave, So I gather that this is not really a medium to send out to the general public because of the Adobe Reader verison requirement. NIk On 5/16/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come across swf's embedded in PDFs, and in the process of doing a little research - is that

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Tinfow
Acrobat Reader doesn't contain Flash Player functionality. To open a PDF with embedded SWF content, you need Acrobat Reader 6 or newer. ...and the appropriate Flash player plug-in, I'd assume. I don't know any big corporation that doesn't have AcroReader 6+. There are many that are stuck on