PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Mon Jul 4 17:08:49 EDT 2005


On OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1, PDFs are not among the file types one  
can load into a QT Player.

Unless, of course, I'm missing something. At least I don't seem to be  
able simply to point a QT Player at a PDF file; the file name is  
dimmed in the file dialog.

Dan

On Jul 3, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Goal: Show PDF's inside a Revolution QT player object with PDF  
> hyperlinks clickable.
>
> Tests so far, can someone confirm? (even better tell us how to do it)
>
> 1) Create PDF spread of two pages of a magazine, source is IDCS2,  
> target format is Acrobat 7.0
>
> 2) open Rev, create player object, point the player to the PDF  
> file.. it appears... And, what is even better... on zoom in (scale  
> up) the text looks really great!
>
> 3) Go back to IDCS2, hyper link a URL on the page. Output to PDF  
> again.. check the PDF.. The hyperlink is working, it's hot, click  
> and it will open the web site in acrobat, or your browser (your  
> choice)
>
> 4) Go back to Rev. Point the player now to the PDF that has the  
> hypertext link.
>
> :-( player object goes blank...
>
> OK ? is it QT or Revolution? Let's find out....
>
> 5) drop the PDF with hypertext link on QT Player... it opens...  
> hyperlink is not there. But QT will at least show the file as a  
> single movie frame.
>
> 6) back to Revolution, Toggle the filename of the player object  
> between
>     a) the same page/PDF  with no links: it appears in Revolution
>      b) the same page with one hyperlink: player goes blank.
>
> Conclusion: Revolution will not import the PDF with an embedded  
> Hypertext link into a QT player object.
>
> Our expectations for inter-application file format interoperability  
> here are probably just "out of this world." so much so that to call  
> this a bug would be unfair to the Revolution engineers... after all  
> I don't ask Acrobat to make chocolate chip cookies and then find  
> out it doesn't work and call tech support at Adobe.  But the  
> trouble with Revolution is, it tends to give you this sense of "We  
> can do anything we want."
>
> I guess finding a way to map PDF hyperlinks to hot spots with  
> linked URL in the QT player is asking a lot.. but I thought to pose  
> this question to the forum of the more experienced. I have seen a  
> few here some who seem to be deep into the PDF file format...
>
> TIA
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
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