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 have not been able to get them tested out with our global laptop installs to make sure they (at the very least) work on our own peoples machines, let alone on any of our (prospective) customers.
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 PDF if I want to be able to print it properly), if I want to send you some (screen based) animation, or even a facility to fill in some on-line form, then I send you some email based item, probably html email or link you to a site that has the respective thing I want you to look at or interact. NIk On 5/17/07, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 sure what the goal is, what the question is. (SWF-in-PDF background: Adobe announced it a few years ago, but on the Macromedia side I was always confused about what they were doing, and how they were doing it. I've tried to get this clarified since the merger, without much luck. The best story I received verbally was that Reader used the ability to play QuickTime to render SWF as well, which wouldn't be very functional because the version of Macromedia Flash Player inside the Apple QuickTime engine was not updated for quite some time. On the other hand, post-merger, there's obvious incentive to connect things together better, although I haven't seen any announcements for SWF-in-PDF during the Acrobat 8 timeframe. One other wrinkle is that PDFs will be able to invoked alongside SWF in the Adobe Apollo project, currently in public alpha -- it may be possible to achieve the goal by alternate means. Anyway, that's the general background info I have, but having a clearer idea of the question could help get better replies.) jd/adobe _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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