Audio & Video in PDF
Add Audio & Video
Foxit PDF Reader not only supports playing multimedia in PDFs, but also allows users to add and edit multimedia files to a PDF. In Foxit PDF Reader, you can add movies and sounds to PDFs.
The Audio & Video command in Foxit PDF Reader adds movies and sounds to your PDF documents and creates a multimedia PDF experience. Adding movies or sounds to PDFs is as easy as inserting an image. "Movies" are desktop video files with formats such as AVI, QuickTime, and MPEG, and file extensions such as .avi, .wmv, .mov, .qt, .mpg, and .mpeg. An animated GIF file always has a .gif file extension, while “Sounds” are midis, wavs, and mp3 files.
You can also provide different renditions of the movie to play if the user settings vary. For example, you may want to include a low-resolution rendition for users with slow Internet connections.
Note: If an alert message tells you that no media handler is available, you must install the appropriate player before you can add clips to the PDF. For example, you must install RealPlayer if you want to embed an RMVB file in a PDF.
Add Movies or Sounds
Choose Home > Audio & Video.
Press and hold mouse button down, drag to select an area on the page where you want the movie or sound to appear. For movies, the play area is the exact size of the movie frame.
In the pop-up Add Video & Audio dialog box, you will see some options listed below:
Location: click the Browse button to select the movie file you want to insert.
Content Type: the type of the media you insert. It is selected automatically. But you can also specify the clip type if you want. Please note that changing the Content Type setting may cause problems in playing the media.
Embed content in document: includes the media file into the PDF file. This option will increase the file size of the PDF. It is selected by default. If the check box is cleared, you will not be able to play it if you open this PDF file on other computers.
Poster Settings: choose whether to display an image in the play area when the movie isn’t playing. You can choose to use no poster or to create a poster from an image file.
Edit the Play Area
After adding a movie or a sound clip, you can move, resize, or delete the play area easily.
Choose the Select Annotation command or the Audio & Video command. Click the play area to select it.
To move the clip, hold down the left mouse button, and drag the clip to a new location on the page.
To resize the clip, place the cursor on any corner point. When the pointer changes into the cursor showing the direction of which the rectangle will be resized, drag one of the corners of the frame to the intended size. Holding down the Shift key retains the movie clip’s proportions.
To delete the clip, simply select it and press Delete, or right-click the clip and choose Delete.
To align, center, distribute, or size multiple clips, please refer to “Work with multiple images".
Set Audio & Video Properties
In Foxit PDF Reader, you can specify properties for the multimedia files you add, such as the appearance of a movie’s play area, whether the movie plays once or continuously, and other player settings.
To set Audio &Video properties, please do the following:
Select the Audio & Video command or the Select Annotation command.
Double-click the play area or right-click the play area > Properties.
The pop-up Audio & Video Properties dialog box has a Settings tab, an Appearance tab and an Actions tab. Also, there are two items on every tab:
Ø Locked – Check to prevent any further changes to any audio & video properties.
Ø Close – Applies and saves the current properties, and closes the Audio & Video Properties dialog box.
Note: If you select Locked on any tab, it will lock all options for this video & audio file, and not just only the options on that tab.
1. Settings tab for the Video & Audio Properties
The Settings tab in Audio & Video Properties contains the following options:
Annotation Title -- Enter the title of the movie or sound in the Annotation Title box. This title does not determine which media file is played.
Alternate Text -- Enter a description of the media file in the Alternate Text box.
Renditions – Allows you to create alternate or other renditions to ensure that users can play the movie or sound clip on their systems.
A. List Renditions for Event -- You can assign different renditions to different actions but Mouse Up is chosen by default. Mouse Up means that when the mouse button is clicked and released, the rendition is played.
B. Add Rendition – There are three ways for you to choose:
Use a File: Double-click the file you want to add to the rendition list. The content type is selected automatically.
Use a URL: Type the URL and select the content type.
By Copying an Existing Rendition: Select the rendition you want to copy.
C. Edit Rendition – When clicking the Edit Rendition button, the Rendition Settings dialog box appears, which allows you to specify the playback location and other settings to differentiate it from other renditions.
Media Settings -- Specifies the general properties for the movie or sound clip:
Rendition Name: Enter the name for the rendition, which will appear in the list of renditions. (This name does not determine which media file is played.)
Media Clip Location: Specify the clip by typing or navigating to it.
Content Type: This will be selected automatically when you specify the clip location. Changing the Content Type setting may cause problems in playing the media.
Embed content in document: Includes the media file into the PDF file. This option will increase the file size of the PDF. It is selected by default. If the check box is cleared, you will not be able to play it if you open this PDF file on other computers.
Rendition Alternate Text: Type a description of the rendition.
Allow Temp File: Specify whether writing a temp file is allowed and when. Some media players write a temp file when they play a movie or sound clip. If you want to prevent users from easily copying the media content in a secure document, you may want to disallow the creation of temp files. However, selecting this setting may prevent the movie from being played by media players that require the use of temp files.
Playback Settings – Use this tab to determine how the movie or sound clip is played.
Keep Player Open: Select whether you want the player to close after it plays the movie or sound clip.
Volume: Lets you specify how loud the movie will be played.
Show Player Controls: Select to display a controller bar at the bottom of the play area allowing users to stop, pause, or play the media, assuming the media player supports player controls.
Repeat: Lets you replay a clip twice or multiple times, or continuously.
Player List: Click Add to specify a player and the settings that are required, preferred, or disallowed to play the movie or sound clip. Select the name of the player and the status. If you set the status of more than one player to Required, only one of the required players may be used to play the rendition. If you set the status of players to Preferred, these players are selected over nonpreferred players (but not over required players). If you set the status of players to Disallowed, they are not used to play the rendition.
Add/Edit/Delete button: Allows you to add a new player, as well as edit or delete the selected player in the Player List.
Playback Location– Determines whether a movie or sound clip is played in the PDF, remains hidden while played (recommended for sound clips), is played in a floating window, or is played full screen. The options for Floating Window Settings are unavailable except when you choose Floating Window.
Playback Location: Selects the location for playing a movie or sound clip.
Background Color: Selects the background color for the media player.
Show title bar: Selects to show or hide title bar when playing the media in a floating window.
Show control closing window: Selects to show or hide the close button at the top right corner in a floating window.
Title Text: Adds a title for the media that will be showed on the title bar when playing the media in a floating window.
Resize: Allow or forbid users to resize the floating window. There are three options for you to choose: Don’t allow user to resize window, Allow user to resize window but maintain original aspect ratio, or Allow user to resize window.
Window Position: The window position of the media file is determined relative to the document window, application window, the virtual desktop, or document monitor.
Width/Height: Specifies the width and height of the floating window.
If Window is Offscreen: Selects to play or not play, or move the window onto the screen to play the media file if the floating window is offscreen.
2. Appearance tab for the Audio & Video Properties
In the Appearance tab, do any of the following:
Annotation is hidden from view – Check this option to make the media file you inserted invisible or uncheck the option to place the media file over the content in the PDF.
Border – Change the width, style, and color of the media file’s border.
A. Width -- Choose the width of the border.
B. Style -- Choose the style of the border line, solid or dashed.
C. Color -- Change the color of the border. Click the color button to select any color you like, or select Other colors to choose a customized color.
D. Change Poster – Choose to use no poster or a specified poster for the media file.
3. Actions tab for the Audio & Video Properties
Select Trigger – Specifies the user action that initiates an event: Mouse Up.
Select Action – Specifies the event that occurs when the user triggers the action: Go to a page view, Open/execute a file, Open a web link, Show/hide a field, Execute a menu item, Submit a form, Reset a form, Import form data, and Run a JavaScript.
A. Go to a page view – designate to a specific page view. You can jump to a page either in the current PDF or in another PDF. Before setting the position, you may also change the current zoom settings.
To go to a page view, choose this option, click the Add button and do one of the following:
² Set the position in current document – scroll the current document, go to a new position where you want to set, and click Set this position.
² Set the position in another PDF document – click the Open button 
on the toolbar > select the PDF you want to set position to > scroll this document and go to a position where you want to set > click Set this position.
Note: The new PDF document should be opened in the existing window but not a new window.
² Change the view magnification -- scroll in the current document or another document > go to a new position where you want to set > change the magnification of the position > click Set this position.
² Click Cancel to revoke your operation.
B. Open/execute a file – designate to open another file. To do this, please follow the steps below:
² Choose Open/execute a file > click Add > select the destination file and click Open.
C. Open a web link – designate to open a web link. Do the following:
² Choose Open a web link > click Add > enter the URL of the destination web page.
D. To show/hide a field, select the option > click Add > choose to show or hide the selected button when the user triggers the action, and click OK.
E. To execute a menu item, select the option > click Add > select one of a menu item in Menu Item Selection dialog box, and click OK.
F. To submit a form, select the option > click Add > choose the submission method, select Export Format, and decide which fields should be submitted, and click OK.
G. To reset a form, select the option > click Add > select the fields that will be reset, and click OK.
H. To import form data, select the option > click Add > choose the FDF file that contains the form data you want to import, and click Open.
I. To run a JavaScript, select the option > click Add > Enter JavaScript, and click OK and Close.
Actions – Displays the list of triggers and actions that you have defined.
Up and down buttons – Change the order in which the selected action appears listed under the trigger. (Available only when you have defined multiple actions for the same trigger.)
Edit – Opens a dialog box with specific options for the selected action. You can also double-click the actions to open a dialog box.
Delete – Removes the selected action.