Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 548)

540 USING INDESIGN CS4
Dynamic documents
Select Interactive Elements so that media clips can be played in the PDF document.
Adding SWF files in InDesign
If you place a SWF file in an InDesign document, Mac OS users may not be able to play the file in the exported PDF.
For best results, leave a blank space in the InDesign document for the SWF file, and then add the SWF file in Adobe
Acrobat 9. When you add a SWF to a PDF in Acrobat 9 (PDF 1.7) you add the animation as the “Rich Media”
animation type, which uses Acrobat’s built-in Flash Player to play SWF content.
Link to a movie on the Internet
You may want an object to link to a web URL that plays a streaming media file. After you export the document to
Adobe PDF or to a different format, clicking the object plays the movie, if an Internet connection is available.
1 If necessary, draw a rectangle to be used as the play area. You can add a poster to this frame later.
2 Select an object, and then choose Object > Interactive > Movie Options.
3 Click Specify A URL, and then type or paste the URL.
4 Click Verify URL And Movie Size to make sure that the URL is valid. (You must have an Internet connection.)
5 Specify any other options, and then click OK.
Movie options
You can edit movie options by double-clicking the movie play area using the Selection tool, or by selecting the movie
object and choosing Object > Interactive > Movie Options.
Description Type a description that appears if the movie cannot be played in Acrobat. This description also acts as
alternative text for visually impaired users.
Choose A File To specify a different movie clip, click the Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS) button next to
Choose A File, and then double-click the new filename.
Embed Movie In PDF Embedding the media file increases the file size of the PDF document but frees you from having
to copy the media file to make it available to others. This option is not available if Specify A URL is selected.
You can override this setting by linking or embedding all media files, or you can use the settings for each object.
Embedded movies require Acrobat 6.0 and later, or Adobe Reader 6.0 and later.
Specify A URL To play a streaming video from a website, select Specify A URL, and then type or paste the URL.
Poster Specify the type of image that you want to appear in the play area.
Mode Determine whether the movie is played once and then closes (if it’s played in a floating window), played once
but stays open, or played in a continuous loop.
Play On Page Turn Play the movie when someone turns to the page of the PDF document on which the movie is
located.
Show Controller During Play Display a controller that lets users pause, start, and stop the movie.
Updated 18 June 2009