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plutus

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Registered: 2010-03-20

Posts: 44

pdf+movie

can anybody open this file

http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/compute … /movie.pdf

using arch?

I'm trying to create a pdf+a movie (following this guide http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/PDFmovie.html ) but I can not open the file using acrobat reader (it can not download the plugins for opening the movie)

thanks!

It is supposed not to work but I'm confidenti with arch capabilities!)

Last edited by plutus (2010-04-14 18:47:11)

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

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Re: pdf+movie

I cannot see the movie using evince but I didn't make any special adjustments for viewing movies, so...

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plutus

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Re: pdf+movie

my question is if some guru can open the file...

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: pdf+movie

I can play the movie using Acrobat (Professional 9?) on Windows.

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plutus

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Registered: 2010-03-20

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Re: pdf+movie

after some search it seems that acrobat under linux does not allow to run an embedded video...to be confirmed

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: pdf+movie

after some search it seems that acrobat under linux does not allow to run an embedded video...to be confirmed

Probably no, the support of Acrobat on Linux is not the best

quigybo

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Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 223

Re: pdf+movie

Embedding movies in a pdf is only in the latest pdf spec, so it will prob take some time to get to linux. Linux acroread can however do a series of images strung together like an animated gif of sorts (something evince cant do yet, not sure about the others). I dont know the details as a guy I work with made the pdf, but it looked ok, not too choppy or anything. With a bit of googling you should be able to figure it out. I do know he used the latex-beamer package to make it, but I'm sure there is more than one way of doing it.

edit: After reading the other link you posted I realise that you are already using latex. Try splitting your mp4 into a series of pngs and adding it using beamer.

Last edited by quigybo (2010-04-15 00:49:44)

rp181

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 81

Re: pdf+movie

I opened it using okular, and, although it didn't embed, you could right click, save the mp4, and see that.