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 u

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 yo

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 have

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 su

RE: [Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-16 Thread Nimrod Huberman
PROTECTED] [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 Read

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

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 t

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

[Flashcoders] swfs in pdfs

2007-05-16 Thread nik crosina
Hi Coders, 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? I can't seem to find much technical info on this, especially, what are the system requirements on the user side: does s/he need flash as