I know that I'm not the first one with this question, but still I could not find an answer anywhere that I understand.
I want to create an interactive PDF for the first time in my life. It should automatically play a video in the background and have a text in the foreground. The well-known problem is: The text automatically disappears in the PDF in the background.
Could someone explain to me patiently what I have to do to keep my text up front?
Yeah, you can totally do this. The trick is to convert the text frame to a button and then position it over the video. the button won't do anything but because it's an interactive elements, other interactive elements will honor it.
But, as we always have to add, interactive PDF with buttons is only certain to work in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. In Mac Preview, web browsers or mobile devices, likely not.
In theory, Chad is correct, but in practice, it's a fool's errand. There's too many variables to even attempt it.
I'll admit I gave up on this kind of thing years ago, but doesn't Acrobat require flash player to be installed? Won't it prompt the user to play the video?
You know, these are tricky questions. Sometimes it's worth just answering the question. I agree, I wouldn't do it or invest much time in the process due to reasons stated by Steve and Bob. In the earlier posts, the responses were no it can't be done. I know that to not be true and regardless of what the OP's intention, that is what they were trying to do.
Bob, I think as long as you don't use .flv video and use .mp4, it should play. That is yet another annoying aspect of multimedia in a PDF.
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