How Do I Publish My Interactive PDF For Online Viewing?

Are you using Acrobat (Reader) to view the PDF in your browser, or something that use OSX native PDF viewing capabilities? If not Acrobat or Reader, then all bets are off for interactive element support.

That's my questions I guess, How do I enable Acrobat Reader within a Webpage ?

I want to call out to either a web app or installed application on the persons local machine or have an alert that says to view this file you need Acrobat Reader.

That depends on what browser you're using. Another poster here earlier today wanted to use Acrobat or Reader to view a PDF in Firefox on OSX, but it doesn't appear to be supported, whereas Safari seems to be.

Instead of an alert if using a unsupported viewer, it makes more sense to use something like a form field (e.g., a button) or layer to display the message by default, and then use a JavaScript that runs when the PDF is loaded to remove the message or hide the layer if it being viewed in a JavaScript-capable viewer (Acrobat or Reader).

Well I guess I need a solution of which browsers reader auto loads and works with and which browsers they don't.

I am using Firefox on a MacOSX system. I have not tried Safari, IE or Google Chrome.

What works on a PC?

On Windows, Acrobat and Reader can load in MSIE, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. I don't know what other browsers are supported.

As far as I can tell, Safari is supported on OSX, but perhaps not with 64-bit Safari (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50983.php). Firefox and Chrome don't appear to be supported, but you should do more research and testing to confirm. Since Firefox use has grown so much in the last few years, it would be great if Adobe could release a compatible plugin for OSX.

Aside from getting the interactive elements to work, the idea of "without the need to download it" is nonsensical. PDFs have to be downloaded just the same as HTML, images, Flash, etc. or you can't open them - there's no concept of streaming, only that some PDFs can be rendered progressively (showing each page as it downloads) - however with interactive content embedded in the file, the media itself isn't progressive. If there's a 10MB video on page 5, page 5 will not display until every byte of the video has transferred to the client.

The content with my interactive pdf is streaming, youtube content as well as digital digital audio from external servers. The media is reference to an external source. If the PDF is on the web and not a local machine I believe it will not be subject to the same Enhanced Security issues.

Is there a way to load the pdf onto a webpage with user controls for pages turning and show the document full screen with page turns or would it just show the contents without the interactivity?

If whomever is viewing the file is using Adobe Reader 9 or Adobe Acrobat 9 as a browser plugin, then the video and audio content will display. If they're using another brand of PDF viewer or an earlier version of Reader/Acrobat, some or all of it won't appear, depending on the plugin.

The PDF is still downloaded, so although you'll be able to imply trust with the website hosting it, the security restrictions imposed on local-to-remote data access remain in force.