sound tool: Focus on page

What do you mean by player? Are you using the Rich Media annot (flash) or the screen annot? Why the floating player? You can also play a sound using the sound annot.

The floating player you are descripting is a Modal window. The only way to put focus back on the PDF is to kill the player.

Thom Parker
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Thanks for the response.
Well what I'd like to do is be able to play mp3 file into the document and start and stop it using page events.
I want my audio player (could be any, but currently defaults to media player) to be non-invasive and at the the same time give the reader a capability to shut it off. Hence a floating window with the title bar and closing control. This floating window is outside the document in the menu bar area of the application so that it doesn't hinder the normal reading.

The way I have gone about this is:
* Add a sound tool to a small area of the page and make the rectangle invisible (manually).
* Add a rendition manually through this screen annot's properties.
* Go to the page properties and create an event using the rendition.

I'd like to automate these steps completely using JavaScript. But,
1. How do I access an audio file from the document? So far, I have done this using "Add rendition", but I haven't been able to figure out a way to add renditions using JavaScript.
2. I know I can create a sound annot through Javascript, but couldn't find a way to attach mp3 file to it.

Maybe there's a simpler and better way of accomplishing what I'm doing, but I just don't know. Thanks for any input.

The import sound function is old and doesn't support many formats. But imported sounds are very simple and easy to use. You'd need to convert your MP3 into wave format to use the Sound Object.

However, you can still use the screen object to play the sound. It doesn't have to be visible to the user and you can add a button to the page for turning it off.

Unfortunately importing renditions into a PDF is not something that can be done with JavaScript. You can however play a media file from an URL with out any annotation or rendition on the form at all. This can all be done with JavaScript. The media object is pretty complex and has lots of quirks. The only thing you can do is look at the examples in the SDK and play around with it to get what you want.

However, if this PDF is for Acrobat 9 and later only, then I think your best bet is to use the Rich Media annot. Which is Modless when it floats.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
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Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

Sound in acrobat 8.

I embedded a sound in acrobat 8 but even if I set play as page visible the sound does not play automatically.
The prompt that ask if I want to play the sound file once does not show either.
I use .aiff format.

JP