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Another soccer joke - only 100 to go...
I do a football match programme for my local team each week and put a joke in each edition AND been doing these programmes for many years now. Reason for mentioning? I have well over 100 jokes like this - grooaannn...
Not to Karen's standard - but oh well...
I have spent some weeks on this, trying all different formats, but to no avail except minor success with an old AVI file. Below will be seen the HELP on PPX9, where so many video formats 'should' work, but don't.
I then looked up Affinity Publisher to see if I should take that route to get videos into my club newsletters - but NO, as a question was raised about this process to Serif, back in 2021 - where you will see below a Staff Member stated categorically that this was not a feature in Affinity Publisher. I think Serif has missed the boat on this one...
Here is what I got using an old AVI media file - it worked in PPX9/PDF...
Thanks for that Alfred.
A few minutes ago I managed to get an old AVI file working, but not MP4 files?
I set it up with Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4) - got the start/stop/pause Control Panel and Floating Window, etc. in pdf playback - oh, and just remembered publishing to PDF does not work - it had to be published as PDF Slideshow.
But sadly I can't get modern MP4's to play at all, yet...
No-one has come back on this, so may be it's not possible to embed a video link in PPX9 to playback with all controls in a PDF?
Which is strange if the dialog box is there in PPX9 giving the impression that it should work?
So, I am left wondering if the problem is in PPX9 - or in PDF?
I do a monthly PPX9/PDF newsletter for my club and they have now requested that I have video media clips embedded within the neswletter for our readers to play back in PDF.
I have set it up as the dialog box below. The video plays fine in PDF but does not have any controls - even though I set it up to have controls showing? So, all the reader can do is watch the video in one sitting and can't start>stop>pause, etc. Also there was no floating window when playing back in PDF? I selected: Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5)
Appreciate any help please. Thanks Sandy.
"I am so glad I am a professional accountant and not a professional archaeologist"
"Why's that?"
"I have a friend who is an archaeologist and his life is in ruins!"
I have also got one for Karen.
A young lad swallowed all the tiles of a Scrabble set.
The doctor said the problem would eventually sort itself out, but not in so many words...
Two ladies chatting.
"My hubby's over there with the bonnet up fixing the car - we call our car baby; it won't go anywhere without a rattle"
At the hospital.
Nurse: "Doctor, Doctor come quick! The patient swallowed a teaspoon this morning and he hasn't stirred all day!"
Man gets into a taxi and the driver starts chatting.
"You know something", said the taxi driver. "I absolutely love this job, I am my own boss and no-one, but no-one, ever tells me what to do - no orders, nothing!"
The man looks up and says, "left here mate!"
Did Mobiusman's query get sorted - where he asked questions about Text Wrapping and Anchors?
Is my input below useful?
If the offending document isn't private, could you upload the page onto the furum, so that we could see what the problem may be and resolve it? My first thought was that perhaps all the objects were'grouped' - but that doesn't tie-up with your comment about being unable to lasoo anything. Just a thought...
Re the multitude of unanswered question, I find that the vast majority of these topics are 'statements of interest' and not 'questions' requiring an answer. Just the one or two are technical questions - one of which I have drawn your attention too in the General Discussions category: Frozen images in PPX9 **. Similarly, I have added a few jokes in the General Discussion category and once again no replies or answers are required. In any event I am sure an answer would be forthcoming if we could 'see' an example of the user's ** offending frozen images page?
I am still getting to grips with the Forum Alfred.
I see that jpeg images can be uploaded, but what about files such as in PP or DP etc. I am thinking of single pages, not whole works. As, some unanswered topics that haven't been answered might well have been answered if the postee uploaded their page (whatever) that isn't working.
Obviously it is up to the postee if their page/article is not private, but one such unanswered topic grabbed me: "Frozen image in PagePlus X9". If we could 'see' the offending page; the topic may be answered straight away?
I am sure I am right in saying that in the original Serif Forums downloading PP files, etc. was common?
I don't know if you remember Alfred, but in the "OLD" Serif Forum I always did graphics to explain my posts? Love your forum and slowly settling in...
Rotating the Sloped text gives a completely different result to using the Mesh Warp Tool - text is'sloped' but not 'straight' as when using the Mesh Warp Tool.
Ok Alfred, just seen your post. Don't know if you agree my comment about 'Slope' and 'Mesh Warp' - different functions to me..?
Hi Geoff, I can see what you mean about the Slope setting, but I'm not sure that's what Robert wanted? He really was talking about the Mesh Warp Tool. So, does my graphic here explain my thoughts, or did I miss something? Cheers, Sandy
I just looked again - Robert's topic was started 29.1.2024 - three weeks ago - although registered 22.2.2022. Same here though, sad to see so many unanswered topics...
Thought I should at least join the 'welcome' throng! And, so sad reading all the comments about Community Plus. To be honest, like Alfred and many others on here, it was the forums BEFORE Community Plus that drew me in and in and in. Like many I started using Serif software when Serif first started. I was working overseas and had their software sent out and kept upgrading every incarnation that came to be. I then later discovered the OLD furums and from there I was firmly one of the Serif Family. Then came Community Plus and I no longer felt the same family connection - or belonging - that had been the case before. So, on discovering Alfred's Forum that old feeling of 'family' is coming back and we must be thankful for this. Serif seems to have ditched long-standing Serif users, which is terribly sad, but what we have now is that old family spirit reigniting. Let's go for it...
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