PDFs compatibility on iPad

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PDFs compatibility on iPad

Hi there,
i'm trying to export an interactive Pdf with links and mpeg4 video content.
Result?! PDF work good but without links, videos and hyperlinks.
Any ideas or particular export format to suggest?
Thanks,
i wish to be appreciated to everydev.
Lorenzo.

Message was edited by: camillop

G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 3:09 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 25, 2010 7:05 AM in response to camillop

I just place an URL for a video into a Pages doc, made a PDF. The video linked in the PDF worked in the Preview app on my desktop computer. I sent the PDF to the GoodReader app on my iPad. Again the video link worked. I then sent the PDF to iBooks app. Once again the linked worked.

What app did you use to make the PDF? (TextEdit won't work, even if the file is a rich text coverted/printed to a PDF.)

Did you use a full URL address, http//: my_link.html?

I'm a little confused, you say you made the PDF with mpeg 4 content. The only program I know of for embedding videos into a PDF is Adobe Acrobat Professional. And that program isn't cheap... I think it goes for $400 or so.

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Answer 2

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Feb 17, 2012 1:56 PM in response to David M Brewer

I hope your see this message.

I have something very similar to do. I have power point slides and each slides give the user the ability to click on the action button to display a video clip. I converted this to a PDF file with action buttons and have tested this in Acrobate and it works.

I would like to display this pdf file on a iPad 2. I read from your posting above that you used GoodReader App. I have e-mail GoodReader and they said that hyperlinks are not support in Good Reader. Then you got it to work.

The hyperlink on my action button is using my C: drive as source. What do you suggest for me to change it to. I can change the action buttons in the pdf file to anything I want and if you can tell me what to change it to would help me.

I am willing to transfer all of the video files to a given folder on the iPad if that would help.

I am really new to iPad, but very knowledgable on the PC side.

Your help is deeply appreciated.

Thank You

Gary

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