From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: embedded sounds
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:24:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009122455.25396fec@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7641f67e-9601-0fdd-efd6-19fc4a1af7e4@xs4all.nl>
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 19:49:44 +0200
Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> media in pdf are sort of braindead and it's hard to get something that
> doesn't have side effects (attachment vs external vs ...) .. when i
> can't hear sound with internal files (no matter how we wrap it i cannot
> really test something) ... (it is tempting to just remove the code but
> as part of working on the interaction manual i keep it for now)
>
> the flash dependent media are even worse ... it is supported (as usual)
> but not future proof
>
> (it baffles me that the original simple movie and sound annotations are
> sort of gone: they delegated the rendering so no pain for acrobat and no
> gain in obsoleting them)
Embedded media is an illness inherited from PowerPointers. In my experience as a seminar presentation organizer, this messes-up 9 times out of 10 (unless the presenter is using his or her own laptop, and even then they cannot get it connected to the projector maybe 20% of the time...). Things are getting a bit better now on the presentation front, however. (PowerPointers still get funny font stuff from time to time).
Why not, rather, depend on a link opening an external file, distributed with the pdf, letting the system figure out how this is to be done? In my experience this works more generally.
Alan
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2018-10-09 17:19 Pablo Rodriguez
2018-10-09 17:49 ` Hans Hagen
2018-10-09 18:24 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2018-10-10 15:17 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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