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on 24/6/03 7:11 AM, Austin, Darrel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...just trying to understand the appeal of > Acrobat as a multimedia authoring environment). Hi Daryl I don't think Acrobat never was ever intended to be an *authoring* environment per se. More of a 'wrapper' in this case (at least in versions up to V5). I would think of PDF as an excellent, reliable 'delivery vehicle' However now with V6 it also becomes more of a media aggregator and of course you pick up all the benefits of integration (single files, embedded media etc) FROM YOUR OTHER EMAIL: > Also, when talking of it being a good format, are people referring to it as > a good delivery format or a good authoring format (or both?) Good delivery format historically. Ubiquitous - lots of players (Readers) Very simple to author - A lot of value can be added to PDFs by just using Acrobat's toolbar features without scripting. Even though we are Director programmers I have often used Acrobat to create a CD interface with buttons and forms for Go To View, weblinks, play movies etc You can do that in 1/4 of the time that it takes in Director. "This one time ... at Band Camp" ... (OK not really Band Camp ;-) I took a brief in the morning, then quickly hacked up some menus and backgrounds in Photoshop, added some content in (gulp) PowerPoint, PDF'd the ppt slides (menu screens) wacked in the menu buttons, weblinks, and movies and had a functioning interface for him to approve in about 2 hrs (client was flying overseas for a week.) This meant we could proceed with the ACTUAL job for the whole week he was away without worrying about FedExing a Director CD or FTPing exe files. Secure - (not in regard to encryption necessarily) but difficult for other stakeholders to mess up and distort. We are beginning a job next week where the Marketing Director of the business has already produced a PPT file and distributed it to the national sales team. He has also already been out to some of the regional sales offices and seen how (in their wisdom) they have errr ... 'improved' the distributed file ;-) A .pps is not appropriate for various reasons, so we are producing a PDF version of the PPT file with re-engineered movies and other value adds. In this case what this gives them is peace of mind that the messages they worked so hard to craft back in HO, are not going to be distorted or bastardised by the regional guys. 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 home/office +613-9419-3966 Mobile 0418-525-315 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
