PDF with rich media

We are planning to make a School Newspaper and we would like to create it in Pages and then add rich media (audio, video QT and Flash) and export it to an interactive PDF which loads the content from the web and makes the PDF mailable. Is Pages the right program for this and which other tools should we use so we can create these professional looking PDF's you sometimes get from publications.

Thanks for any help.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jun 4, 2008 10:37 AM

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Jun 4, 2008 11:36 AM in response to Fernando G

My guess is that Pages is not the good tool.

The doc states:


+PDF: PDF files can be created using an image quality of good, better, or best. When the image quality is set to best, the resolution of images isn’t scaled down. When the image quality is set to better, images are downsampled to 150 dpi. When the image quality is set to good, images are downsampled to 72 dpi. Images without an alpha channel are JPEG compressed with a compression level of 0.7 at the good setting and 0.9 at the better setting.+
+When you export a Pages document on a computer with Mac OS X version 10.4 or later, hyperlinks are exported. Hyperlinks are created in the PDF document for table of contents entries, footnotes and endnotes, webpages, email messages, and bookmarks.+

+The PDF file, which preserves font characters used in the document, can be viewed or printed in Preview, viewed or printed in Safari on Mac OS X version 10.4 or later, and edited with a PDF application.+

I assumes that to do what you wish, the soluce is Acrobat Pro.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 4 juin 2008 20:36:32)

Jun 5, 2008 2:16 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Thank you Yvan. However, Acrobat is not a design program so I would like to work in something where we can design the pages and get interactive rich media in the PDF's. Maybe even two versions; one for mail without the media or with hyperlinked content which is pulled from a server, and another one for download with all the content embedded.

Anybody any experience with this?

Thanks

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