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Control of videocontroller

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2010-07-12 14:57:37
Nina Storm
Registered: Jul 12 2010
Posts: 4
Answered

I am creating an interactive pdf with placed video (.flv placed in InDesign CS5).

In Acrobat I set the video to play in floating window.

But I cannot make it pop up in the middle of the page, it seems to default pop up in the top to the right.

How do I change this?

:-) Nina Storm

Regards Nina Storm

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Macintosh
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2010-07-15 06:28:12
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Shlomo Perets
Expert
Registered: Feb 8 2007
Posts: 18
With current versions of Acrobat, floating window positioning of Rich Media (FLV/SWF) cannot be controlled; Rich Media floating window will indeed be placed in the top-right corner of the screen.
(Floating window positioning is supported only for "legacy" media, which does not include FLV, and requires corresponding players to be installed).

The PDF specification itself includes support for Rich Media positioning (see Adobe Supplement to the
ISO 32000, http://www.adobe.ph/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf#84 ); the related positioning parameters are ignored, however, when the PDF is viewed in Acrobat/Reader 9.x.


Shlomo Perets

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2010-07-15 12:55:35
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Nina Storm
Registered: Jul 12 2010
Posts: 4
Thank you Shlomo,

A very professional answer.
I will take a closer look at the adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf and find another solution for the actual challenge :-)

Best regards Nina Storm

Regards Nina Storm

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2010-07-15 19:46:19
#3
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
As Shlomo says, with Acrobat and Reader 9 and a floating window playback mode there is no solution - you can't even write a plugin to help as there's no API method exposed to control the position of the window. Manually altering the PDF dictionary to add positioning offsets has no effect.

However it is possible (using a plugin on the authoring computer) to put a video annotation into a PDF layer, and turn that layer on and off - so you can replicate the "lightbox" style overlay popular with websites and put the video wherever you want, but the position of the video will of course still be fixed.

I'll be talking about these kind of questions in our Tech Talk on July 27 - register for free via the homepage.
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2010-07-18 12:20:19
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Nina Storm
Registered: Jul 12 2010
Posts: 4
Thank you uvsar, I am working on it. I have decided to create a .swf file and let it play in the window.
It still leaves me to find out to create a play - pause and stop button.

I know only a little flash and now I am curious if I create the buttons in Flash - will they survive in Acroat 9?

Thanks for the Tech Talk Tip.

Best regards Nina Storm

Regards Nina Storm

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