Linking to a movie

You can include multimedia elements in a PDF file. To take advantage of this feature, you will add a QuickTime movie to this guide. As with most video formats, movie performance is usually less than satisfactory over the Internet. However, when publishing a PDF on a CD, movies work quite well.

You'll select the large bear image on the page and replace it with a QuickTime movie. PageMaker actually imports only a single frame of a movie. However, when you export a publication to PDF or HTML, the exported file automatically includes a hyperlink to the full movie. The exported file and the movie need to be in the same folder.

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For cross-platform compatibility (necessary on the Web), a movie must be in the flattened QuickTime ...

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