Presented at PDF Days Europe 2022
( 2022, Sep )

Leveling up RichMedia

Unlocking the Audio and Video potential of RichMedia

Excerpt: The RichMedia Annotation has been embraced by the 3D PDF community for moving forward with PDF 2.0; But exploiting the potential for Audio and Video RichMedia Content has proven more challenging.  We will discuss the several generations of embedded multimedia mechanisms in the PDF specifications,  the current (sad) state of multimedia support in the PDF world, what’s missing in the current RichMedia specification before outlining how to fix these issues and the business/use-case for better multi … Read more

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About the presenter(s)

Patrick Gallot, has been working with software developers and PDFs since 2000. At Datalogics, he is the lead technical support Engineer for the Adobe PDF Library and Datalogics PDF Java … Read more

Patrick Gallot
Datalogics

Description

The RichMedia Annotation has been embraced by the 3D PDF community for moving forward with PDF 2.0; But exploiting the potential for Audio and Video RichMedia Content has proven more challenging.  We will discuss the several generations of embedded multimedia mechanisms in the PDF specifications,  the current (sad) state of multimedia support in the PDF world, what’s missing in the current RichMedia specification before outlining how to fix these issues and the business/use-case for better multimedia support in PDF.