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playing audio from different cuepoints

charlie5000
Registered: Dec 23 2009
Posts: 8

Hello, I would like to embed one audio file into a pdf document and have 60 buttons, each of which opens the same audio file at different cue points. So if user is on tenth page, second paragraph, [at 10:23], and they want to hear the audio of the section they are reading, they can just click the button and the audio starts playing from that particular point, and keeps playing if the user does nothing; a floating control bar or player would be helpful as it would then allow user to pause or stop rew/ff. Is something like this possible? I would appreciate any suggestions or thoughts.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
Shlomo Perets
Expert
Registered: Feb 8 2007
Posts: 18
With Rich Media annotations (Acrobat/Reader 9), you can use the "multimedia_seek" and "multimedia_play" actions, through Acrobat UI or through JavaScript.
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See example at: http://microtype.com/showcase/MultimediaAsst/CandleReportFLV.pdf
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In previous Acrobat versions, or with "legacy multimedia", you can use Acrobat JavaScript (and set the media item's startAt property).
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See example at: http://microtype.com/showcase/MultimediaAsst/FoxAndGrapes.pdf

Shlomo Perets, http://www.microtype.com
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