Play-Stop-Rewind Buttons

Do any Javascript experts have any idea?

Can anyone offer any help please.
Many thanks.

Have you read Jeff Freeman's article?
[url]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/movieclip_to_pdf.php[/url]

and Bill McCoy's associated blog article?
[url]http://blogs.adobe.com/billmccoy/2008/02/how_to_add_flas.php[/url]

If not already done, it may be worth a browse of Bob Connolley's sites.
[url]http://www.pdfpictures.com[/url]

He showcases the book he has authored about his work at this site:
[url]http://www.dynamicmediabook.com/[/url]

I've used Jeff Freeman's article and been pleased with the results.

Have not done this, but it occurs to me that with Acrobat 9 and a Cp4 Aggregator Project one might be able to use Acrobat 9 Portfolios to good effect on something like what you describe. Or, individual PDFs containing Cp orchastrated by the Portfolio.

Alternatively, something interesting might be done with Acrobat 8 and Cp3 in an Acrobat Package.

Be well...

Thanks very much daka630. You can't get enough basic background on making interactive PDFs! It's all good stuff. But we should try to remain on-topic in this forum - it's the Javascript sub-forum.

I wonder if anyone can help with the Javascript actions to make an audio file play, stop, and rewind in a PDF.

Thanks in advance, I would really appreciate the knowledge.

Aha, found it! When you create legacy multimedia content and then create a button for it, the Javascript is there to find quite easily to control the audio file .. my grateful thanks to the wonderful work of Lynda.Com :)

I'm looking to do something similar. Can you post any code samples?

I explained how I found it, why don't you read my post again and try it yourself.

I read your post and didn't find it particularly helpful:
"When you create legacy multimedia content and then create a button for it, the Javascript is there to find quite easily to control the audio file .. my grateful thanks to the wonderful work of Lynda.Com"

Does this mean the Javascript was found on Lynda.com, Adobe's Javascript reference guide or you came across it somewhere else when creating a button?

I just started researching this today so I'm sure I'll find it eventually, but I was hoping I wouldn't have to start from scratch. If you have the code to do this, please paste it here for others to make use of.

Thanks,
Wes

OK, let me explain how to create legacy multimedia content. This is for Acrobat 9, I don't know if it was different in previous versions.

* Select the Sound Tool... create a small rectangle... release the mouse.
* A small 'insert sound' popup will appear.
* Look to the bottom-right of the window, and you'll see a blue clickable link entitled "create legacy multimedia content".
* Click the link and browse for Acrobat 5 or Acrobat 6 compatible media.
* If you right-click on the area where you created the rectangle, and choose Properties, you will see options for Javascript, and also if you click to Edit Rendition, you'll be able to embed a media player, 'show in document' etc.

Basically, legacy refers to audio and video formats that you could embed into PDFs BEFORE Flash.

I ended up doing this with Flash.

I asked in several forums and I am amazed at how, either, people who do have knowledge of javascrtipt in PDFs cannot be bothered to help, or in fact, hardly anybody has any knowledge about it. My guess there are folks out there who would know how to do it but because they can't see a use for media players in PDFs they can't get interested in explaining how to do it. I think those people do not have the right to waltz around proudly with their "expert" badge in forums like these, they are farcical.

Lynda.com are producers of excellent tutorials. Can't remember exactly which one has info about this, sorry.