[bynkii]

Ronald_Schoedel said:

It may not appeal to you, but there are legitimate uses of these technologies and they are quite useful in many circumstances.

There's legitimate uses for every technology. however, what does Flash in PDF do that other existing features didn't do already?

I mean besides jack your PDF sizes up even higher.

[Ronald_Schoedel]

Flash videos are much SMALLER than their counterparts from the world of WMV and MOV. Also, have you ever had to deal with the hassle of cross-platform (or even sometimes intraplatform) codec headaches? One person whom I support received a document with an embedded video, from another person who also uses windows. But the video would not play on the recipient's machine, because she did not have the proper (and obscure) codec installed. Flash movies, I believe, are pretty much cross platform and immune from codec hell.

[bynkii]

Ronald_Schoedel said:

Flash videos are much SMALLER than their counterparts from the world of WMV and MOV. Also, have you ever had to deal with the hassle of cross-platform (or even sometimes intraplatform) codec headaches?

h.264 and MPEG4 are both platform neutral, compress well with better results than "flash" video, (which as of recent versions, also supports h.264. It had to, or they were going to be screwed as YouTube moved to h.264), and there are far more tools to deal with MPEG-4 and h.264 than Flash. As well, both are open standards, not the Adobe version of WMV.

>One person whom I support received a document with an embedded video, from another person who also uses windows. But the video would not play on the recipient's machine, because she did not have the proper (and obscure) codec installed. Flash movies, I believe, are pretty much cross platform and immune from codec hell.

BWAAHAHAHAH...right. Until you find you don't have the right flash version installed or you want to view that PDF on something that doesn't support Flash at all, (iPhone!) or only has access to a very limited version of Flash. (Other smartphones). Flash is not the cureall it was once made out to be.

[Jeter2Fan93]

No thanks. I don't want to see annoying flash ads in a PDF I downloaded.

[jscottk]

Anyone know how to install v9 without getting an "internal error" on launch?

Downloaded it twice, repaired permissions, restarted, etc. Nothing works. (And yes, I did download the correct version.) I'm running Mac OS 10.4.11 on a PPC Mac. v8.1.2 runs just fine.