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When will Adobe Reader support interactive PDF elements on iOS?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:31:31 GMT

When will Adobe Reader support interactive PDF elements on iOS? I don't want to hear the line that Apple won't allow Flash. Adobe needs to get a workaround PRONTO! We need detection of simple buttons and support for Mp4 and f4v - as exported inline by inDesign when creating PDFs.

HELP - Today's Flash Update Now makes all My Interactive PDF content call flashservice.adobe.com!!!!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:47:56 GMT

HELP - I've just installed the latest Flash update for Windows 7 pro and now when I bring up one of my many interactive PDF documents, clicking on any embedded video or audio file hotspot/button calls flashservice.adobe.com ! Why is this happening? It never happened before the update. Now, every time an interactive hotspot/button is clicked, I get this error message "Acrobat does not allow connection to flashservice.adobe.com" (resulting after I clicked the checkbox to stop doing it) now I have to cancel the error message before it plays my interactive content. i can't believe I'm now stuck with this time wasting problem when I'm about to release many interactive ebooks in days!!!!!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW I'm talking about embedded video and audio files that do not refer to a url and do not require a browser!

When will Adobe Refine the Interactive PDF Audio Controller?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 02:10:49 GMT

Whenever Reader plays interactive audio content, this dreadfully small or dreadfully large audio controller comes up (hard to understand how the size is respected via inDesign's tools), looking incredibly clunky and does not even have an exit button so that you can close the played audio file and continue to read the page!

When will this be fixed as an update to InDesign CS6 ? This feature should never have been allowed to be released in its current form. When a core feature fails to live up to its promise, then it's in breach of basic consumer laws where I live!

When will Adobe Reader support interactive PDFs for iOS and Refine the Audio Control for Windows?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:06:02 GMT

I, like many other developers, want to create PDFs that preserve their core cross-platform objectives.

I am also not happy with the way the audio controller shows when an audio file is clicked in an interactive PDF. The look is incredibly clunky and there is no exit button by default so the user can close the audio file and read the page again.

When interactive videos show in a floating window, they should maximize automatically and then if another is clicked/played, that window should recall the previous maximized frame without the user having to be clairvoyant in working out how to resize the media window EVERY TIME!!!

*******Enhancement / FMR*********

Brief title for your desired feature: Support for interactive PDFs

How would you like the feature to work? When I add a transparent frame containing a basic Adobe Media encoded mp4 or f4v video, export to interactive PDF from Adobe InDesign, I want the PDF and its interactive videos to work on iPads. See an example file here: ***EXAMPLE PROVIDED*** Click the lefthand top and bottom corners to bring up interactive video elements which should open in floating window, maximized, then have an exit button to close and continue reading the PDF. Of course, this does not function under Adobe Reader for iOS. You also need to attend to audio files embedded in the same way and allow an exit button to close the audio window so the reader can continue reading the PDF on Windows.

Why is this feature important to you? I create eReaders for schools across my whole country and they are taking up iPads at an unprecedented rate. If Adobe do not produce a solution for interactive PDFs on iOS then I will no longer use InDesign, Acrobat, Adobe Media Encoder or Photoshop to create works in the future. You're looking at a massive education market that will leave Adobe behind if this is not acted upon very very soon. For some publishers it's already too late and they have moved to app based creation tools.

How to Stamp a PDF Document permanently

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:21:17 GMT

As an author about to release eBooks in the form of PDFs (I use Indesign to create), how can I stamp ever page of a PDF with the registered user's details and make that stamp permanent? I want to do it in batch mode so that I only have to literally drag and drop my master PDF documents into a field already set with the user's registered details for the stamp to appear at the top of every page in every PDF document dropped into the field.

I have tried VeryPDF's PDFStamper tool and it does this exactly but the stamp is not permanent as I was able to remove the stamps using another program (even when the stamped PDF was batch encrypted). I have not been able to find a batch encryption program that prevented me from removing the stamps. The PDFs can not be password protected as i want the end users to be able to open them like you would start a music file that has been paid for (ipod users don't enter a pw every time they play their music files). I have researched other commercial solutions but the PDF delivery is either restricted to proprietry delivery or very expensive (upwards of US2000) alternative software.

There must be a lot of authors like me wanting to do this but I have drawn blanks at every step trying to find a solution. I wrote to Adobe about this 5 years ago and never got a reply. I've waited thinking something worthwhile would come along but so far I can't find it.

Anyone got a solution? thank you for your time and help with this.