pdf presentation with audio

[KevinB]

I have a pdf presentation of some of my images that I created with an audio track. I must have done this with either CS2 or Lightroom and now for the life of me I cannot remember how I did it.

Am I going mad.....?

 

[johnbeardy]

You may have eaten or smoked something.

Not with Lightroom anyway, and off the top of my head I can't think of a method in Photoshop - not with audio anyway.

John

 

[KevinB]

but....

But I have the file that I created from my own photos.....I am flummoxed as to how I did it and now cannot.

The pdf displays a popup named Adobe Picture Tasks:

http://img4'1.imageshack.us/img4'1/2859/7533'369db8.jpg

And when playing the pdf displays this control bar in top right hand corner.

http://img5'5.imageshack.us/img5'5/1996/43512291ns2.jpg

I am bemused because everything I am finding on the web suggests that pdf slideshows cannot be created with audio tracks.

 

[KevinB]

I've found this but it is nothing i have seen before....and it doesn't mention audio

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7sdpixtasks.html

 

[johnbeardy]

I don't doubt you can add audio. Maybe you used Acrobat? Why not examine the file in Bridge and take a good look at File Info's Advanced panel. Somewhere in there may be a clue about the originating program.

John

 

[KevinB]

Thanks Have done that but will take another look to see if I missed it.

The Adobe Picture Tasks site does mention audio, buried deep.

The thing is I just found this one day and used it having never seen it before. I am wondering if an update to Adobe Acrobat allowed one use for free then switched it off.

 

[KevinB]

Actually I hadn't looked in that place. It mentions Adobe Picture Tasks but I have not knowingly installed this on my system, as I said I stumbled upon it and used it and now cannot find it again.

Will post back if I work it out.

 

[KevinB]

Worked out how I did it.

Automate PDF presentation from CS2.

Select images

Choose the multipage document NOT the presentation to effectively import the images into the pdf

Picture tasks then appears on the menu bar in Adobe Acrobat 7 and allows another export into a slideshow.....only this time can't get the audio working!! but I will.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Nice bit of detective work Kev!