On OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1, PDFs are not among the file types one
can load into a QT Player.
Unless, of course, I'm missing something. At least I don't seem to be
able simply to point a QT Player at a PDF file; the file name is
dimmed in the file dialog.
Dan
On Jul 3, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Goal: Show PDF's inside a Revolution QT player object with PDF
hyperlinks clickable.
Tests so far, can someone confirm? (even better tell us how to do it)
1) Create PDF spread of two pages of a magazine, source is IDCS2,
target format is Acrobat 7.0
2) open Rev, create player object, point the player to the PDF
file.. it appears... And, what is even better... on zoom in (scale
up) the text looks really great!
3) Go back to IDCS2, hyper link a URL on the page. Output to PDF
again.. check the PDF.. The hyperlink is working, it's hot, click
and it will open the web site in acrobat, or your browser (your
choice)
4) Go back to Rev. Point the player now to the PDF that has the
hypertext link.
:-( player object goes blank...
OK ? is it QT or Revolution? Let's find out....
5) drop the PDF with hypertext link on QT Player... it opens...
hyperlink is not there. But QT will at least show the file as a
single movie frame.
6) back to Revolution, Toggle the filename of the player object
between
a) the same page/PDF with no links: it appears in Revolution
b) the same page with one hyperlink: player goes blank.
Conclusion: Revolution will not import the PDF with an embedded
Hypertext link into a QT player object.
Our expectations for inter-application file format interoperability
here are probably just "out of this world." so much so that to call
this a bug would be unfair to the Revolution engineers... after all
I don't ask Acrobat to make chocolate chip cookies and then find
out it doesn't work and call tech support at Adobe. But the
trouble with Revolution is, it tends to give you this sense of "We
can do anything we want."
I guess finding a way to map PDF hyperlinks to hot spots with
linked URL in the QT player is asking a lot.. but I thought to pose
this question to the forum of the more experienced. I have seen a
few here some who seem to be deep into the PDF file format...
TIA
Sivakatirswami
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