Inserting PDF file into project

[Dale Gabrielse]

I have searched the help questions but have not found out how to insert a PDF file into project. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks

[rhosk]

Use a WebObject and load the pdf file.

[Dale Gabrielse]

Thank you for the answer to inserting PDF file. I must have missed that instruction somewhere in the help files or the training CD's that I purchased. My next question would be this? Is there a way to have the Adobe Icon shown so that the user could save it to his hard drive. I realize that if they have Acrobat installed, it will open automatically, as mine does, and they can click on the "save a copy button". I guess some of us are used to seeing that Adobe Icon and clicking on it to download a file from the internet or a CD.

[rhosk]

If you have the pdf source file, I'm sure that you can come up with some simple action to "copy" the file from your project structure to their hard drive. I don't quite get exactly what you're asking and I'm definitely not an Adobe Acro expert. A little more detail would be great :)

[eric_darling]

Dale,

Although I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, I'll try to provide some helpful ideas.

First of all, you should use the built-in Acrobat sensing feature found in AMS 5. You find it under Project -> Dependencies. Lots of built-in checking scripts in there, and nicely tailorable - a major improvement over AMS 4. You can have it offer to install Acrobat Reader if necessary (which is freely downloadable from Adobe's web site - just make sure you're living up to the distribution agreement they enforce).

AMS doesn't support PDF documents inherently - you need to have the Reader or the full version installed to view PDFs. But as rhosk suggested, you can view them and otherwise manipulate them inside a web object in the AMS interface - thereby giving an excellent option for viewing right inside your project.

If you want to provide users the option to copy a PDF from the CD to their drive outside of the Acrobat Reader interface, you simply attach a File.Copy action to your button/image and away you go. We should note, of course, that you can use the disk icon right inside the Acrobat Reader interface to do the same thing, perhaps even more elegantly.

[Dale Gabrielse]

Thanks for the answers! The information provided by both of you helps greatly.
Sometimes when I switch between applications, such as Premiere, After Effects, Indesign, Encore and the like, I forget the user interface and get confused. Like: "place" is used in Indesign, "open" in Photoshop, "import" in Premiere Pro, etc., and "Web" for PDF's in AMS 5 Pro. At 55 years old my mind sometimes can't keep up. Thanks again!!

[Corey]

Hey Dale, thanks for your support on purchasing the training CDs! Hope you found them helpful. The new one is due out in about a week, I'll try to add something about pdfs to it.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[Intrigued]

Hey Dale, thanks for your support on purchasing the training CDs! Hope you found them helpful. The new one is due out in about a week, I'll try to add something about pdfs to it.
That is the sort of support and flexibility I do appreciate from you folks at Indigorose.

Another positive action from a positively professional organization!

And, thank you Corey for the update on the CD-ROM I personally have been waiting for, myself.

[Corey]

Thanks Intrigued, have a great weekend! At the risk of accidentally misquoting Teddy Pendergrass, "Keep the rubber side down."

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)