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Indesign print pdfwriter12/13/2023 Previously, I let the page empty in InDesign and in Acrobat for Windows I import a WMV movie. I need to create a CD-ROM that contains a PDF with videos. This is true there is major problem here compared to the old method where we imported a VMW file using the Movie tool in Acrobat. It seems that InDesign CS5.0 and + always embed the Flash videos and when the PDF is open in Acrobat X it is impossible to relink to an external file. Since InDesign CS5.0, it is impossible to avoid that a PDF does contain embedded Flash video and instead place them as external resources. I prefer not to do anything in InDesign and create LINKS in the PDF, it is a lot of work but it is more stable than Buttons.Ħ. Why can?t we add a STOP option for videos when we jump to another page (must go to the Video properties to fix the issue, for each video)ĥ. How to add an action in the PDF so that the purple bar does not show up at the bottom of the window ?Ĥ. Why InDesign populates the PDF with Forms feature if we create buttons ?ģ. Why links are absolute and not relative when prepared in InDesign ? We must recreate all the links in Acrobat so they point to a file so when the PDF and the folders nearby containing the resources (files, videos) are moved together… everything works.Ģ. We spend more time fixing links and actions in Acrobat than to really rely on InDesign features.ġ. Fix this mistake and give us One PDF again.Īuthoring interactive PDF is possible in InDesign since CS(1).ħ years later, the features still don?t meet real life requirements. And most of all, I want a single Export PDF dialog box that lets me choose whatever settings I want, in one place.Ĭome on, Adobe. I want a PDF that has animations but won’t print as 4-color cmyk black (because all the text got converted to srgb). I want a PDF that includes RGB and CMYK images, properly tagged with color profiles, and which also has buttons. I want a PDF that includes a video, but which uses a high-resolution CMYK poster image when I print. It broke the fundamental promise of PDF as being a single file that did whatever you needed. I was there in the early 90s when Adobe was pushing this crazy format and they promised that it would print, it would contain video, it would flow, it would do whatever you needed when you needed it!Īnd InDesign CS5 broke that. However, this is the kind of thing that I’m sure John and Chuck are scratching their heads about, saying “WTH?!” I mean, the whole point of PDF was that there was a single file that could do whatever you wanted it to do! It was a portable document, would look right on screen and would print properly. I wouldn’t say that, as Adobe has clearly come up with some amazing stuff since then. I heard someone say recently (was it regarding Jobs’ new biography?) that Adobe has lacked vision since Warnock and Geschke left. AND THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM: Users who need to create a single PDF that works for print and onscreen viewing are up a creek without a paddle.Users who want to color manage their interactive documents are out of luck.Users who have documents with facing pages spreads have no way to turn them off, to get single pages.“I have hyperlinks, should I choose interactive?” Users are more confused now than before, because they don’t know what they heck to choose.Here’s a short list of problems introduced by separating this into two different dialog boxes: (You know I’m InDesign’s biggest supporter, but a guy has to call it like he sees it!) Maybe they were thinking, “bless the souls of our poor, muddled users, they need us to make everything simple and easy for them, because they obviously can’t handle too many checkboxes in one dialog box.” Or maybe they were thinking, “we have to make it obvious that these PDFs are radically different, because they’re designed for the new (at the time) Acrobat 9 engine, which includes Flash.” But whatever they were thinking, they were wrong. I’m sure the folks at Adobe had it in our best interests when they proposed this crazy idea. This may seem like a little thing, but it’s like a thorn in my side, a pebble in my shoe, which I’ve been living with for over a year, and which just just gets more annoying. The mistake was to separate the PDF export workflow into two different dialog boxes: print and interactive. If you’ve been listening to our recent podcasts, you know about our new “What the Heck” feature, and this… um, feature… certainly falls into that category. In my opinion, Adobe made a mistake in InDesign CS5, and it’s an important one to understand. We should not be judged on our mistakes but rather how quickly we react to correct them.
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