Video in PDFs for viewing in browsers

[Bucky Edgett]

Dear Friends,

Can Publisher export Interactive PDF with video that can be played in the PDF when the document is being read/viewed in web browsers? Having trouble with this from my ancient InDesign CS 6. Believe the non-playing problem is caused by ID 6 exporting PDFs with media converted to FLV. And Flash being deprecated on the web in general. (I'm not positive that's the problem. I have no way to Inspect the PDF's video file formats.)

We have a text-link-to-a-movie-file workaround in the current project, but that's lame! Any advice will be greatly appreciated. And, if Publisher can do this, I'm buying the whole StudioLink suite immediately! Thanks!

Yours, Bucky

[Joachim_L]

No, the only "interactivity" in APublisher right now are Links and Anchors. Unfortunately from my point of view even forms are missing. But there are some video editors out there allowing you to embed multimedia in PDF files.

[Bucky Edgett]

Dear Joachim_L , Thank you. My specific concern was trying to export the PDF without having the embedded media converted to Flash format. But, the whole thing had turned into a tempest in a teapot, and all my fault. My client's membership is pretty much all viewing the PDFs in their browsers, online, so a simple link to a copy of the .mov that's been posted to a hiddden--that is, not linked to on their site--directory is seemingly sufficient. So much angst over such a simple proposition. And the linked/not embedded version of the PDF is a third the file size!

As I said originally, we were having problems playing the video and I ascribed them to Flash, or specifically FLV formatting. I still don't know if that was really the problem, but now, for the moment at any rate, don't care! If the membership is happy clicking to watch the video, then we're happy!

I see Publisher will--supposedly, if my old Mac Mini can handle it--run in my Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan. I'm going to try it out! Thanks Again.