Presentation from a PDF

Greetings,
We have a 320 page book which we would like to integrate into our online training. I want to do more than just embed audio into the pdf (which makes a very large file). I'd like to use some of Captivate's features. I just can't seem to figure out the right mix. I can convert the book to swf with FlashPaper. But I can't really work with that page by page in Flash or Captivate. Can I insert pages from my PDF book into Captivate? It seems like SWF, PDF, and Captivate should be able to work nicely together.
Thanks,
DT

Hi there,
Currently there isn't any way of inserting a PDF directly into an Adobe Captivate project. What you could do is link to a certain part of the PDF using a click box or a button using the Open URL or File option of the On success menu.
Below is some examples of how you could do this I found on the web.
   <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodlist.pdf#page=3"/>
   <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodlist.pdf#namedest=Digital-Imaging"/>
   <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodlist.pdf#zoom=200,250,100"/>
Another option would be take the text from the PDF you want to include on a slide and display this using a Rollover Slidelet
Insert > Rollover Slidelet.
This way you would ensure that the content from the PDF is presented in more manageable chunks. In virtually all cases, presenting learners with a large amount of text tends stifle not aid learning
Best - Mark

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