Embed Flash Video in PDF: Convert HTML to PDF with Adobe Acrobat

How to use Adobe Acrobat to convert HTML documents into a PDF with embedded Flash video or mp4 video file.

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to begin the process of converting these
HTML pages
into a PDF open up our Web index
and select 10 the web files for
conversion
here I'm selecting revising with the
word processor
now the first thing you want to do is to
make sure that you're using Mozilla
Firefox there are fewer these techniques
are moves that you're going to make that
cannot be made with Internet Explorer to
my knowledge
so therefore be sure that you have
downloaded and installed
a copy of the latest Mozilla Firefox
browser
what's that is installed the first thing
you want to do is to take
this image right here the top banner so
right click
in them pulled out to copy image that
place
the image on your clipboard now
the next program you'll need is a copy
of Microsoft Word
open up a blank Microsoft Word document
in drawing tax box for that banner
at the top of the page this will allow
us to move around
without applying trapping case that
image that you just copied to your
clipboard into the text box
in the mood that text books into you
have the Saturday at the top of the page
the next thing you want to do is to take
off the text box outline
so you go to checkbooks formatting in
the end
under shape outline click on know who
outline
okay we've got a banner in there let's
go back to her HTML page now
now looks highlight in copy the text
portion
on the HTML page
who back to our word document is simply
paced in
that text
now we're set on our Microsoft Word
document and we're going to save it
as a PDF using the Microsoft Word
command
save as PDF so we'll save it to your
desktop
it will minimize the Microsoft Word
screen now the first time that you open
this PDF
open it in your newly installed Acrobat
program
in here is the PDF that you just created
opened in Acrobat not Adobe Reader
but Acrobat and the next thing we're
going to do is to go back to a Word
document
and make sure we have the full and
complete you are real
hope that video
okay back on our gobi Acrobat go up to
the video tool
click and calm down in Crawley
video box wherever we want it in the PDF
document
what's that video boxes drawn
a dialog box will pop up in you see that
the first thing you do is to insert the
URL
love that video which what to do now is
to delete
HTML antipodean im he
for that's the actual while the Wii Play
he saw a jump around as a connected to
that URL
click on Advanced options
the next we want to do is to get our
image that will display before the video
shows a let's go back
her HTML document right click
unfortunately because the positioning I
O was unable to
show you the actual command the actual
command there
was save image so
right click on the image in the HTML
document pulled out to sea
image and then save the image to your
desktop
okay let's go back to our gobi PDF
we click on Create poster from file
we click on brown girls and now we
select the image
that we just saved to our desktop former
HTML document
who controls I I use at this point out
I use all the defaults for the control
sitting in the video settings so
just click OK here and there the
images now displayed that is the image
that's not the video
to resize that image who look to your a
row selection tool
in a click on any of the sizing cool
around the image it really doesn't
matter
how you resize the image the video is
going to play
year and the dimensions that you have
selected
the image is just there as a placeholder
so after you have resize the image you
however you wanna
who hid and save this PDF
just three say that with the normal
control a safe
in this time we want to open up that
same PDF
in Adobe reader to make sure that
everything looks okay
in that our video plays to hear we're
opening it in Adobe Reader
okay let scroll down to our video and
see how that works
place your cursor on a left work
in the video should start playing in the
PDF file
there's the opening screen and now the
videos playing
the bottom other has been cut off
because of the recording window the NACA
okay there you go the videos now playing
in you have successfully converted HTML
to PDF immoral Sep
there are two variations that I want to
learn you too
the first variation has to do
when you encounter a Flash Player
instead of an image for example here in
the literature review
there's a Flash Player for the videos
have an image as you can see right
clicking on idk usually
flash settings it does not allow you to
say even image
in a case like this you will need some
scream
capture software I use Snagit from
TechSmith there's also free screen
capture
software out there King Kong captures a
very common one
but basically you use it to capture that
specific
image Indian save it to your hard drive
you can format a little bit in most to
those programs
and then you simply save it to your hard
drive
in there and pick it up in the same way
that you pick up any other
image to inserted into that PDF
as we saw earlier a second variation
has to do with any videos that have not
yet been converted
from YouTube to Flash Player
on the UMUC server for example here's
the brief guide to citing sources in
Chicago
this has a YouTube video in it when that
happens
just alert me that that would have been
converted yet I'm still working on them
and I'll go ahead and convert it for you
so that you can complete your conversion