Hi Community,
I would like to know:
1. Is there a way to make an area "hot" with sound but have it NOT put a white box over the top of what I want to play the sound? I want to use mp3 so they can still control the player- rather then just "Play a sound". When I click on "No Border" it still gives a border. How can you control what the "Current Poster" is.
2. If there is no way to make it an invisible sound link... How can I make all the "posters" the exact same size? i dont really mind adding a sound icon for folks to click on- but it seems impossible to make them exactly the same size.
thank you!!!
Sound Posters- how to make them invisible or the same size...
2011-10-28 09:06:20
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro, Windows
Acrobat Pro, Windows
2011-10-28 10:08:44
#2
brilliant. as always! a few problems on my end.
i am running acrobat 9. dont know if that matters but im not seeing the "Show Advanced Options" from that path- i can only find the audioplayer.swf. i see no "tabs" either- no resources or SWF or any tabs at all.
i dont know flash so i am trying to stick with the 1st plan.
i am running acrobat 9. dont know if that matters but im not seeing the "Show Advanced Options" from that path- i can only find the audioplayer.swf. i see no "tabs" either- no resources or SWF or any tabs at all.
i dont know flash so i am trying to stick with the 1st plan.
2011-10-28 11:32:24
#3
In Acrobat 9 use the Tools > Multimedia > Flash tool to add the annotation, and on the "browse for file" dialog that opens after you draw your rectangle there's a checkbox at the bottom to "show advanced options", which will also bring up the other tabs.
You have two options, the last one being complicated as you're working with sounds rather than videos (there's already pre-built solutions for video RMAs but we haven't done one for sounds yet).
First plan - make the RMAs manually
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Instead of dropping a "sound" RMA, drop a "SWF" instead:
Pick the "AudioPlayer.swf" file from your Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 10.0/Acrobat/Multimedia Skins/Players folder. Click "show advanced options" and choose a poster image from an icon.
Switch to the Resources tab and load your mp3 file.
Switch to the SWF tab and type in "source=filename.mp3" (without the quotes, and using your filename)
That makes you the same as Acrobat would if you asked for a "sound" RMA, but now you can copy/paste it and replace the file in the resources tab, so you can keep the dimensions and poster icon.
Second plan - do it all with one player
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If you're in the mood to program in Flash, you could write your own version of the audio player that will accept multiple source files (all in the Resources tab), then drop it onto the page once (as a SWF RMA) - then you can use PDF links and buttons to send commands to the player, which gives you the option of transparency.