[thelist] Animation in a PDF

Pringle, Ron RPringle at aurora-il.org
Thu Jun 1 12:59:59 CDT 2006


A quick Googling of the phrase "animation in PDF document" turned up
this:

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/scholarship/animations_in_pdf.pdf

The author suggests AVI files, but I think you can embed Flash files as
well, possibly other types too.

Ron


> I have a client who wants to put out a magazine in PDF 
> format. One of the
> things he wants in the first issue is a demonstration of how 
> similar two
> photographs are. He'd like to have the photos overlap, and a slider to
> change the transparency of the top photo.
> 
> I believe that this can be done with Flash, but I haven't a 
> clue how to get
> such a thing in a PDF file. Any ideas? If this doesn't work 
> out, I'll hunt
> for someone to make the demonstration in Flash and we'll just 
> put it on the
> Web site to promote the magazine.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Dominick 



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