Position floating Window

You can set the size that the floating window opens on the "Launch Settings" tab of Properties. If you set the "Playback Style" to be "Play content in floating window" the dimensions settings are enabled and you can set the size the window opens.

That does not seam to be what you want but should help.

No, that is not what i ment.

I want to be able to change the position of the floating window. Now it's always in the top left corner.

Any suggestions?

Right, you currently can not set the position. The size is the only parameter you can control. I was giving you the size information since you mentioned enlarging the floating window. Unfortunately you cannot control the position it opens in, maybe in a future release.

Ok, I thought so.

but anyway... thanks for the thinking-time

Koen

I know this question is old, but I posted this information in case someone else needed it. You can indirectly change the position of a floating window in Acrobat Pro 9.

You can only change the position of the floating window from anywhere between the upper right and upper left corners of the document, which means that you can't place a floating window at the bottom of a page.

To do this, you will need to place this code or a similar one in frame one of your flash file.

function run (){
ExternalInterface.call("multimedia_setWidgetViewSize", 200, 100);
}

setInterval(run,1);

Then, export the swf. Place the swf in your pdf. Under the launch settings tab, Set Playback Style to "play content in floating window." Finally, change the width.

If you change the width to 600, then the left corner of the floating window will now be about 600 units from the right corner of the document. Using the code that I provided, the dimensions of the floating window will be 200 by 100.

Actually you can put the floating window anywhere you want, it's just that we don't *yet* have a tool within the Acrobat UI to set the variables.

Link to example pdf file:

https://acrobat.com/#d=SLWu6-AjTQPVjUQHJv5R1A

Hi UVSAR. I watched this video earlier and learned to safe uncompressed pdfs. Thanks, I do alot of pdf editing with text editors and I could not edit some pdfs because of the compression issue.

Anyway, I needed a method that will position floating windows in different positions in Acrobat 9. (If I upgrade to Acrobat X, then I'll need to update my mapping programs, which are expensive).

The example PDF above will indirectly open floating windows in a position other than in the upper right hand corner of Acrobat 9. The floating window in the example pdf can be positioned in different spots by changing the default width of the floating window within Acrobat 9 (Edit video launch settings tab). The method used in this example pdf cannot place floating windows in the middle of a document.

On the fifth frame of the Flash file, the floating window is resized by using this script "ExternalInterface.call("multimedia_setWidgetViewSize", 96, 37);". If the width of the floating window was 200 before the fifth frame, then after the 5th frame the floating window will be located about 100 units to the left.

This is really just a smoke and mirrors approach. I am not much of a programmer. If I was, then the navigation buttons in the floating window would update themselves when I added new destination views. (I use flash buttons to navigate to different spots in maps based on named destinations in the pdf). Hope this makes sense and that my example pdf functions properly. (I think that the pdf will have to be downloaded to work).