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2008-12-15 06:00:42
Awesomerobot
Registered: Oct 22 2008
Posts: 12
Answered

Ok, So I was in the process of creating a PDF presentation which would later be burned to a CD, with audio on each page.

SO, when I burn this to a CD and try to play it from CD with Reader, every time an audio file plays I get a warning (the audio is embedded in the PDF)

"You have opened a document that links to Quicktime multimedia content on a Removable Medium. Please decide whether to play the content now"

now, this would be fine if it came up once at the beginning, but this is a 30 page PDF with 28 audio files – and a key point of this PDF is to allow pretty straightforward usability, so I'm kind of perturbed by this, as it may require a complete rethinking of the project if I can't do something about it.

So does anyone have any suggestions? It would be greatly appreciated! Oy!

**update** actually, is there a way to create a "trusted document" or is that an option only on the user's end?

My Product Information:
Reader 9.0
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2008-12-15 13:18:17
#1
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Check under the Reader Preferences (Edit > Preferences) for Multimedia Trust (legacy). Make sure the permission for your audio player is set to Never prompt.This will help you but other users of Reader can set their own Preferences, which makes the new ability of A9 to embed audio look very inviting.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2008-12-15 15:26:08
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Look at this page, it may help you :
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/acrobat/security/

;-)

abracadabraPDF.net

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2008-12-15 15:41:08
#3
Awesomerobot
Registered: Oct 22 2008
Posts: 12
Ah, yes - I was overlooking that little pull-down dialog.

My only qualm with that is that the option is kind of buried in there – For example, in previous versions of Acrobat I'd get the prompt that gave me the option to allow all audio for a trusted document to play (even on removable media) – which is easier for people I distribute PDF's to vs. telling them that they need to follow a short set of instructions for changing preferences so they don't get nagged on every slide that contains audio.

I mean, it's easier for me to just tell the user to copy the file from the CD to their desktop rather than use the PDF directly on the CD as originally intended – seems to be rather unintuitive to me.

I understand why Adobe changed it, I just wish it was more flexible - so as I said, a user could select to trust all media types in one document.

Actually, as a security/trust feature it seems to make more sense to prompt on a document-to-document basis, rather than having to turn off/on prompts for all documents/media types.

Ah, I guess I'm just rambling now – but

thanks for the help, that's essentially what I was looking for. :)
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2008-12-15 15:52:20
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Awesomerobot
Registered: Oct 22 2008
Posts: 12
Merlin wrote:
Look at this page, it may help you :
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/acrobat/security/

;-)
that sounds like it *almost* helps me, haha – see, I'm embedding audio into a PDF for users who would be playing it directly from the CD, that little snippet sounds like it may be on to what I'm looking for (seemless audio playback).

I just recently picked up the new Acrobat, and since this project was started months ago in the older version I just figure I'd finish it in it. Problem being is that I'd be distributing Reader 9 along with the CD, which seemed to be where the tightened security issues came in. So sounds like I may be able to circumvent that somehow in 9, or perhaps with a different file type? (I'm using MP3's currently)

Ah well, I'll look into it - thanks for the lead
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