Export movie within PDF

Hello Jeremy,

it is correct that PDF supports multimedia files, but Pages can't save PDFs with interactive content (except links). Not every programm supports the entire PDF specifications of the newest PDF version. I own Pages 1.0.2, but I am sure version 2 is not supporting movies in PDFs, too.

Frank.

The only program I'm aware of which does this is Adobe Acrobat. Not even Adobe InDesign or Illustrator do it.

And the only program apart from Adobe Acrobat that reads them is Adobe Reader 7.0.5. (There was a previous version that did it as well under some circumstances, but there was some incompatibility with Tiger or something.)

As far as I remember.

Jeremy,

what is your intention with that document?

If you want to show someone the movie with a bit of text for explanation, create a simple layouted document in Pages and export it as a HTML. Than compress it (with zip), so you can send it with e-mail or whatever you like. But hold the layout as simple as possible, because the HTML export of Pages is very basic.

Or export the Pages doument as a PDF (the movie schould be represented in it with the first frame as a picture) and put the movie beside in the same folder.

I think you have Keynote. If it is version 3 you can try to recreate your Pages document layout in Keynote and there you can insert the movie, too. Than export all as a QuickTime movie/slideshow. I don't know how good the QuickTime movie/slideshow export is with version 2. I have not the experience in Keynote to tell you more about that.

The only "professional" way to have a PDF with a runable movie inside is, to use an Adobe tool like Acrobat Professional or something similar. I don't know a program from other software developer that has the ability to do that.

Frank.