Embedding Articulate Quizmaker flash files in pdf?

You should be able to get it to work by attaching the other SWF files as resources to the annotation.

Place the main SWF on your document using Acrobat's Flash tool, but before closing the popup window, move to the Resources tab. Add each of the extra files, keeping their original names, in any order you want. The main SWF will then be able to see them as if they're in the same folder on a disk.

(if the original files are in a tree of folders and have to stay that way, you can add that too).


Adobe Presenter is the current product for building quizzes inside PowerPoint, and you already have a copy inside your Acrobat 9 Pro Extended installer - it's just not installed unless you ask for it. Re-run the installer and you'll see it on the optional content. Presenter automates the quiz-to-flash-to-PDF workflow.

*ugh* I deleted the monster installer stuff, but I will download and try Presenter. But I have a lot of Articulate content I would very much prefer not to remake in Presenter!

I'm still stuck at the preloader, although I now have a poster image--so something can see the rest of the files.

I added the following, both as a directory and individually:

-5 mp3 sounds
-2 html files
-2 swf files
-1 js file

I tried this yesterday, but added them after insertion of the initial swf by right clicking and opening properties. Today, I added them at the same time (didn't think it should make a difference, but I was willing to try anything). Still, all I get is the preloader loop.

There is also an html launch file (in the same folder as the initial swf file) that has the following:

Supracultural Survey Insertvar g_bLMS = false;
var g_bAOSupport = false;
var g_strContentFolder = "quiz_content";

var g_strSwfFile = "quiz.swf";
var g_nWidth = 720;
var g_nHeight = 540;
var g_strScale = "noscale"; // noscale | show all
var g_strBrowserSize = "default"; // default, fullscreen, optimal
var g_strBgColor = "#FFFFFF";
var g_strAlign = "middle";
var g_strQuality = "best";
var g_bCaptureRC = false;
var g_strFlashVars = "";
var g_bScrollbars = true;

I'm wondering if that link in the html file to the js file is a problem (since the html file doesn't start the swf file)?

Thanks for your help with this. I'm now off to see about Adobe Presenter.

Adobe Presenter functional quiz capabilities matching pretty closely to Articulate's--just different interfacing (and it seems a bit less elegant). Working on it...

OK, 5 hours later, Adobe Presenter's Quiz thing works very poorly indeed. It absolutely will NOT allow retries, regardless of how many ways and times I set a question and the quiz to multiple retries, infinity retries, etc. Pretty disgusted. It is no fun to work with the user interface and multiple pop-up panels--looks like something from Win 3.1 design.

Really hope I can get existing Articulate flash quizzes embedded with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, whose promise I am loving--if I truly can publish interactive pdf's that incorporate quizzes and surveys in flash. The active forms work pretty well as do the flash movie embeds and audio file embeds.

But Adobe Presenter. Not just meh, but blech! Disappointing. (Um, it does work with ppt 2003?)