Indesign cs5.5, video in interactive pdf

Installed a video (mp4 and f4v). but niether one works in my android device. Works fine on my desktop computer. What am I doing wrong?

Then you are in the wrong place.
What I can tell you is that interactive PDF on mobile devices is a crapshoot and is highly dependent on the quality of the app being used to read it.
Bob

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I am creating an interactive pdf using CS 5.5 and would like to have a button on each page that, when pushed, opens a print window (so the user can print the page, or range of pages, if they want). I know you can do this to the finished pdf in Acrobat but would prefer to keep everything in InDesign if possible.
Thanking you very much in advance,
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And if you're getting into doing stuff in Acrobat these two links are worth reading, the first here written by Bob himself, the second here a cool new way that has been developed, if you requested they add a print button to the list of what you can do and it's possible they probebly would.

I am trying to export indesign doc containing MP4 to interactive PDF but videos don't appear on exported PDF?

I am trying to export indesign doc containing MP4 to interactive PDF but videos don't appear on exported PDF?
This is the Id screen

You haven't told us what PDF reader you're you're using to watch the video in the interactive PDF. You still haven't told us whether you exported File > Export > PDF (Interactive) or PDF (Print)? Please answer the questions so we can try to help you.

I'm running Indesign CS5 & it appears my Adobe PDF presesets have stopped working. Can you help?

I'm running Indesign CS5 & it appears my Adobe PDF presesets have stopped working. Can you help?

It's under utilities in the window menu.
If the simple PDF works, that may indicate a problem with the file after all, but one way to to force the export to the foreground is to create a new Book (File > New > Book), then add the file that's giving you trouble to that book. (a Book is just a container format used to combine multiple .indd files into a single output)
From the Book panel flyout menu you can export to PDF and see what that does. Failure indicates a file problem, success a background task problem.
It's a little odd that you aren't getting an error message....
Anyway, if the problem is the file, try export in two halves. If both halves export, it's a system resources problem and not much you can do other than attempt to see what is using all the memory (probably some large complex vector object, or many vector objects) or just do the export in chunks that work and combine them in Acrobat Pro. If one half fails, try exporting half fo the failing half at a time. Keep dividing the failing half until you isolate a page with the problem.

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Hi Guys,
I am having this huge problem when I tried to export 124 pages including links, buttons (show/hide) and video (mp4) to interactive PDF. However when I tried to use CS5.5 to export, it stops at page 98 and prompts an error that say cannot be exported. In CS6, it managed to pass the page 98 but hangs at page 123 till I got to force quit it.
I am able to export in pieces but not as a whole and I believe that it could be a memory or ram issue which is beyond my control.
This is the first time I have encountered this issue. Anyone have solutions for this?
Mark Plunkett

I manage to combine them in Acrobat X and the links worked, I was happy but for a while. When I tried to save the combined PDF, same thing happened, it just keeps optimizing running at 100.3% of the resources. What I have noticed using my Activity Monitor in Mac is that InDesign renders it using 1GB or Ram while Acrobat only uses 380MB of Ram when I have 8GB of ram available in my Mac. More the reason why InDesign should have gone into 64-bit in CS6, but was dissapointed it did not.
I found the cause of the rendering issue, it is not so much about the vector or image size (it does play a part though), it is because I was using too much Show / Hide functions in the Buttons Panel. There seem to be a limit to how much you can use and on how many pages you can have them. I was doing a "Drop down menu" in the PDF with this particular function, each page have about 40 Show/Hide buttons, and there is a total of 124 pages. That is what caused it not to export out successfully, when I removed the buttons, it worked after waiting for 40 minutes of exporting the file, not very happy it took so long, however it got exported.
I think that both Acrobat and InDesign developers should start looking into able to use Scratch Disk or let the users optimize more Ram to the usage of the software.
Forgot to mention that this only worked in CS6, not even close in CS5.5

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Hi guys
I am trying to put together an interactive PDF newsletter which has a video and a small slide show in it.
I am pretty new to this interactive element of indesign.
The video seems to have embedded fine (it is a FLV file), but when I view the PDF and hover over it I get a click to activate message. While this is useful in telling the user to click on it, I would much rather it was nicely greyed out with the small play triangle in the middle and worked when the user clicked on that.
I guess my issue is a presentational one mainly. Does this make any sense to anyone?!
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The way the PDF plays in Acrobat or Reader (this is what you're using, right?) is nothing InDesign has any control over.
So this really should be posted in the Acrobat forums. However, I don't believe there is any way you can modify this message, I'm afraid.

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When I RUN PROJECT (inside browser), everything works perfectly!
As a matter of fact, I am able to create damn-near-the-same SWF (with flv video playback and animation) inside InDesign CS5 (hint hint!) using the animation and media panel and Export> SWF command (and again everything works perfectly!)
In case you want to know how I do it, here's how it works....
1. Drag-and-drop your SWF created in InDesign into Acrobat 9 Pro or Pro Extended.
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Hi,
Interesting application for the Fc output. I tried this out and it seems to work fine. Here are the steps I went through.
Created the fxp file and output the result
Created the pdf
From inside Acrobat Pro, I selected the Multimedia > Flash Tool and then chose the area in the document where I wanted to place the Fc output
I chose the Main.swf for placement
Acrobat Pro places the file
I saved the pdf and then opened the file in the browser
A play button appears and works when pressed
Not sure what would happen when placed on a server. Expect that you would need to keep all the files in the correct path/relationship to each other.
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I have read everything I can on this subject, and although it looks like I should be able to do it, I have so far been unable to make it work!
My dilemma: Creating an Interactive PDF from InDesign CS6, and I would like to include links to various streaming video's throughout the pdf. I would like them to run within the pdf (as a floating window), not pop out to the users web browser. I would like people to be able to play them, and then play them again if they need to listen again, aka, loop, I guess.
My attempts: I have created the Play button (to launch the video) in InD and when I exported it to PDF, I tried to set the video up there. I had minimal success with that route. I've also tried to do the whole thing directly in InD, including the link to the video, but had no success.
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Click "show advanced options" and select "Create poster from file", then open your image of the play button.
Set the playback style to "floating window" and enter the dimensions of the stream.
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Use the Add Video tool to draw a very small region on the page which will be where the video poster sits (it has to exist but you want to hide it somewhere...).
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Thanks for your reply Dave.
The .mp4 videos are imported into InDesign and are controlled using one of the Skin options from the Media tab which allow the user to Play/Stop/Seek/Mute/Vol.
The video sizes are 677k, 2.7mb, 3.9mb, 13.2mb, and 13.4mb.
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Adobe Reader 10.3 does not yet support multimedia. None of the free readers I've found support it.
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I am having issues with embedded video in an interactive pdf (currently using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional).
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Hello there, I am trying to make a e-mail button work after its .swf file is imported into a new iD document and exported as a interactive PDF. I have tried various things and work around but I can not seem to be able top make it wrong. I ask iD twiter for help and after a conversation with them I was told to try here.
OS: Windows 7, iD Version 9.2.1 x64
This is my process (Will include images and document files)
1. Create simple solid color box object. Add a text title to the box and otline the text.
2. Group the objects and make it into a button. Add a roll over appearance.
3. Add "go to URL" action. One sample button URL is: mailto:test@email(dot)com, Second sample URL is: mailto://test@email(dot)com (the forum editor kept making links to this fake emails)
4. Export iD document to .swf (Settings where default)
NOTE* Here the .swf open in chrome and the email buttons work fine as a .swf alone
5. Import the SWF into a new iD file. Export this second iD file to an Interactive PDF (Seetings where default)
After doing this I click on the email buttons inside the interactive PDF but they dont start my email app (Outlook 2013) However every time I click either button a new empty Google Chrome window opens.
Here is a dropbox link to the files themselves, the type is outlines so no need to worry for missing fonts. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fp76buzt98td8fy/4DD6tqImd9
I hope someone can help me getting this fixed. Http:// Link buttons work fine on interactive PDF's following this process. For soem reason the email ones are the only ones that wont work. I have to use this process because I am working with an interactive PDF that has an animated roll over menue that does not work with ePub so the only way for my project to work the way I want it too is by exporting .swf of the finished file, importing on a new iD file and re-exporting to a interactive PDF.
It was really hard finding anyhting related to this issue im having. Here is the only similar issue I could find and it is from 2008! http://forums.adobe.com/thread/324167 I do hope I am the one doing something wrong here and not that Adobe has not fixed this .swf email links issue.
Thanks for the help!
-Sebastian

Alright thanks! Ok this is what happens in my end:
- The interactive PDF you sent me works fine. The iD file opens fine as well and is exactly the same process so that checks.
-I exported your iD file to .swf, created a new iD document and imported the exported .swf file from the file you created. I exported this new document to interactive PDF. I open it and again I click the links and only google chrome windows open
This is the link it probably works fine on your end
https://www.dropbox.com/s/on5tun0v0eunjhu/buttons%20email%20text%20swf%20imported%20to%20i nteractive%20pdf.pdf
I think there is something going on in my end. "Google Chrome" or "Flash" might be intersecting email links or something becuase I cannot get these .swf + interactive pdf combo to open the email client not even after I used your iD file, exported .swf, imported it and export again to interactive pdf.
Again the interactive pdf you sent works fine and when I export my file to interactive pdf it works on my end as well, its only after i export to swf and then I use the file inside iD and export to interactive pdf that it does causes me trouble. I will see what I can do to fix this. At least it was working for you so if its only in my end then its not that bad but it will bugg me forever haha!
Thanks again for your help!! Sorry to take your time Salah!
-Sebastian

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