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Movie Limits?

rrsIPOV
Registered: Feb 19 2008
Posts: 14

Sorry if this is a newbie question, but here goes. I'm trying to get stated on the embedding Flash movies into PDFs, and I'm off to a decent, but somewhat confused start - I think mainly due to documentation be kind of scattered (at least for someone new).

Currently I can embed one SWF into a PDF; then use the security tools to Certify the document and save. However when I try to add a second SWF video (think before and after side-by-side) the document is simply "signed", not certified, and the viewer still gets the annoying security warning dialog. I've probably got a good deal of experimentation left before I give up; but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone knows if this is a real problem or am I just doing something dumb - p.s. I remember seeing a post on this forum yesterday saying something like "1 SWF per page", but I can't find it now, maybe I just misread something in my hast yesterday. Any help / advice would be welcome; thanks.

My Product Information:
Reader 8.1.2, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Certification is the same as signing. It basically fixes the PDF into the state it was in when it was signed. Any changes invalidate the signature, and remove any advantages that come with certification.

Technically you can have as many multimedia annots as you want on a page. I've seen PDFs with 10 or 20 on a single page. However, you may run into problems if you try to play them all at once.

Very little has been written about movies in PDF, but there is a book on multimedia in PDF by Bob Connolly. called Dynamic Media

http://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Media-Music-Animation-Peachpit/dp/0321430832/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203531106&sr=8-1

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

rrsIPOV
Registered: Feb 19 2008
Posts: 14
Thanks for the reference - I was having a hard time digging up much more than the instructions for using the insert movie tool. The book is also available via ORielly's Safari service, so here I go.