Designing Multimedia Presentations
Multimedia presentations have evolved into a highly sophisticated combination of video, animation, dynamic text, live photos, captions, and so on. Presentations can be destined for very large screens, such as the ones dominating Times Square in New York City, iPhones, and everything in between in terms of the size of the viewing area and delivery digital format. And let’s not forget that audio is often a crucial part of the presentation.
Our expectations for multimedia in PDF must be adjusted to a more realistic level. Acrobat’s path as a presentation delivery format began as static images of pages exported by a layout application. We were excited to show our clients actual fonts and color images on a screen rather than using expensive ink or laser toner on paper. With exciting updates in new versions of Acrobat came the euphoria of being able to do anything. The world of rollovers, animations, pop-up video players, and embedded movies...