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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro There should be a widget someplace that swaps you over to the PDF shelf. They are separate IIRC. Figured it out. It's still lame that video embedded in a pdf cant be viewed thru ibooks. Who the fudge cares abo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BRussell Apparently the new version of iBooks just released a few days ago supports embedded video. Perhaps you could use software such as Calibre to convert to epub, and it will retain the video. I heard about this…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me You're correct. This means that you are SOL. Which is why I'm looking for a less proprietary format other than .pdf...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me All you have to do is to download and install Adobe Reader. This will automatically install the AdobePDFViewer.plugin Internet Plug-in. Switch your PDF viewer to Adobe Reader. Don't think that's available for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Which means you are opening it via the Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugin. A proprietary Adobe product. The Safari default is to use Preview, which is not owned or produced by Adobe. And Preview, or any othe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Thanks. FWIW, the video does not play in Preview on the Mac, but it does in Adobe Reader. So as was suggested above, this feature appears to be currently proprietary to Adobe products. I can play it stra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I've never seen any PDF with a clickable imbedded video. If you could direct me to one, I'd like to see it. Voila (I put this up as a test). http://chronicle.ca/ipadtest2.pdf
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss A Keynote presentation saved to Quicktime? Not using a MAC, no keynote. Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is that I have a .pdf file, and I want to some how replace a picture in the file with a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro I'm not positive, but I think embedded media is part of the current PDF spec which Adobe has not released into the open yet. Adobe holds onto the newest most advanced version to make a business case for it's …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Update iBooks to v 1.1, it reads PDFs. Updated. Didn't help. Issue still stands.
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee How does it work if you placed the PDF file directly into iBooks without any conversion? It doesn't work. iBook can only recognize .epub files to my understanding.