Using PDFs in Slideshows - plus, the DVD-RW trick

Question

Dear Friends,
As one of my menu options in a current iDVD project, I have a series of illustrated documents in TextEdit which I have converted to PDF (Problem is, I can't find the orig. TextEdit file, so must use the PDF) that the viewer can click through using the screen arrows. I haven't built the disc yet, so am not sure if the PDF will be accessible to someone watching on a set top player, or, for that matter, on a computer that hasn't got Acrobat Reader. If using PDF is going to be a problem, I thought of converting the pages to jpegs in Photoshop or redoing the pages in TextEdit(a lot of work)...any successful suggestions for having a text slide show?
Other Question: My 2003 G4 came with a Superdrive that doesn't support DVD-RW discs. I heard there was a workaround to fool the burner into accepting them - something to do with putting in a DVD-R disc and then removing it and substituting the RW one. I'd appreciate clear instructions for this procedure, please.
Thanks so much,
Keith
Dual 1.25 GHz PM/G4 Mac OS X (10.3.8)
Dual 1.25 GHz PM/G4   Mac OS X (10.3.8)  

Answer 1

As one of my menu options in a current iDVD project,
I have a series of illustrated documents in TextEdit
which I have converted to PDF (Problem is, I can't
find the orig. TextEdit file, so must use the PDF)
that the viewer can click through using the screen
arrows. I haven't built the disc yet, so am not sure
if the PDF will be accessible to someone watching on
a set top player, or, for that matter, on a computer
that hasn't got Acrobat Reader. If using PDF is
going to be a problem, I thought of converting the
pages to jpegs in Photoshop or redoing the pages in
TextEdit(a lot of work)...any successful suggestions
for having a text slide show?
You can use Photoshop to convert the PDF files into TIF/JPG files that you can use. Remember that 'all you have to play with' is 640x480 pixels so I hope your documents aren't too detailed.
Other Question: My 2003 G4 came with a Superdrive
that doesn't support DVD-RW discs. I heard there was
a workaround to fool the burner into accepting them -
something to do with putting in a DVD-R disc and then
removing it and substituting the RW one. I'd
appreciate clear instructions for this procedure,
please.
Yes, that's what we did with versions prior to iDVD 5. When asked to insert a DVD, insert a DVD-R, AS SOON AS IT IS RECOGNIZED, hold down the disk eject key, immediately remove the DVD-RW and replace it with a DVD-RW disc.