PDF movies on a mac - Polyloop

otaku · 29th April 2006, 04:24

cant get any of the movies in the manual to work.
using Mac os 10.4.4
Quicktime 7.04
latest acrobat reader 7.0
help menu launches preview to look at pdfs (how do I get acrobat to launch instead? already went to open with pref in get info and selected acrobat, no luck. Only works when I double click on it.)

Tried opening with acrobat and get following error on all movie "could not open file (various movie file namesapear here). mov"

psaldari · 29th April 2006, 13:00

Left click on hex icon and choose "see content of package" (or something of the sort, I am Italian, and I don't have set the english language for the system) move on Contents/MacOS/data/doc then left click on the pdf documents and choose "Informations" in the panel that it is opened, here you can choose (in "open whith") the Adobe Reader like default program for open this documents.

Paolo

otaku · 29th April 2006, 16:20

already did that still doesn't work. Help opens with preview and the real problem is that even when i open the pdf with acrobat the movies are not playing

psaldari · 29th April 2006, 16:33

download the 7.0.7 acrobat version and retry, with me works well and I can see this videos.

Paolo

dillustratoratwork · 29th April 2006, 17:52

There is a new update to MacOS 10.4.6.
May want to try this as well.

Thomas · 29th April 2006, 18:03

Check your security options in Acrobat.

otaku · 29th April 2006, 18:42

Found the problem, I had copied the pdf to my desktop for easy accesss and it wasn't connecting to the movie files in the docs folder. As long as i copy the entire docs folder and launch the pdf from there all is fine.

Still no luck with the help menu launching preview intead of acrobat though.

Also noticed 2 sets of movies in docs file. French movies and english movies for the pdf, although some of the french movies have audio and the english companion does not, wonder what we're missing.

29th April 2006, 04:24	#1 (permalink)
otaku Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 12	PDF movies on a mac cant get any of the movies in the manual to work. using Mac os 10.4.4 Quicktime 7.04 latest acrobat reader 7.0 help menu launches preview to look at pdfs (how do I get acrobat to launch instead? already went to open with pref in get info and selected acrobat, no luck. Only works when I double click on it.) Tried opening with acrobat and get following error on all movie "could not open file (various movie file namesapear here). mov"

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29th April 2006, 13:00	#2 (permalink)
psaldari NURBS Booleans are your friend Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Treviso - Italy Posts: 115	Left click on hex icon and choose "see content of package" (or something of the sort, I am Italian, and I don't have set the english language for the system) move on Contents/MacOS/data/doc then left click on the pdf documents and choose "Informations" in the panel that it is opened, here you can choose (in "open whith") the Adobe Reader like default program for open this documents. Paolo

29th April 2006, 16:20	#3 (permalink)
otaku Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 12	already did that still doesn't work. Help opens with preview and the real problem is that even when i open the pdf with acrobat the movies are not playing

29th April 2006, 16:33	#4 (permalink)
psaldari NURBS Booleans are your friend Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Treviso - Italy Posts: 115	download the 7.0.7 acrobat version and retry, with me works well and I can see this videos. Paolo

29th April 2006, 17:52	#5 (permalink)
dillustratoratwork Spline Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: US Posts: 35	There is a new update to MacOS 10.4.6. May want to try this as well.

29th April 2006, 18:42	#7 (permalink)
otaku Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 12	Found the problem, I had copied the pdf to my desktop for easy accesss and it wasn't connecting to the movie files in the docs folder. As long as i copy the entire docs folder and launch the pdf from there all is fine. Still no luck with the help menu launching preview intead of acrobat though. Also noticed 2 sets of movies in docs file. French movies and english movies for the pdf, although some of the french movies have audio and the english companion does not, wonder what we're missing.