Is there any way to embed a (youtube link) video inside a PDF file?

[Marty S]

Has anyone tried to embed a video link inside a PDF file? I mean the videos that you can get an embed code for from place like youtube, google, and amazon and yahoo.

If you have done this, what is the procedure? I normally use Microsoft Publisher and then convert it to a PDF.

[Tsnyder]

Search the forum... Josh Anderson posted how to
do this a while back...

Tsnyder

[John Henderson]

Originally Posted by Marty S

Has anyone tried to embed a video link inside a PDF file? I mean the videos that you can get an embed code for from place like youtube, google, and amazon and yahoo.

If you have done this, what is the procedure? I normally use Microsoft Publisher and then convert it to a PDF.

I've recently been messing around with this in the 'Pages' application that ships with Apple's iWork.

Pages allows me to embed QuickTime movies within a document; I can play the movie from within the doc and save the doc with the movie embedded inside -- but only when I save the doc in the Pages format. Exporting the doc as a PDF turns the movie into a picture (still frame).

I can embed the link to a YouTube page into a Pages doc either by copy-pasting the "http://" web address into the doc, or even better, by typing some descriptive text into the doc (e.g. "Click this to watch a video"), highlighting it and using the 'Link' tab of the Inspector Window (photo below) to hyperlink that text to a YouTube page.



When exported as a PDF, the link is maintained.

I've tried inserting a photo into a Pages doc to see if I can link that to a webpage, but the 'Hyperlink' option only becomes available when text is highlighted.