I worked with LaTeX and I created a pdf document that contains some embedded videos. The videos pop up when I click on them and this functionality works just find in Adobe Reader. But when I try to do the same on Preview it doesn't work, and it gives me this sound as if there's an error or something, just that no error is shown on the screen. Can someone know how to make Preview work with embedded videos on pdf files?
Embedded video in pdf file doesn’t work in Preview
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1st thing to try
- Open Firefox
- Open Preferences (Firefox > Preferences, or Command + ,)
- Select the Applications tab
- Search for "pdf"
- Change action to something else, then change it back to "Always Ask"
Verify this is set correctly
- Open Finder
- Search for .pdf
- Right (Option) Click the first PDF that appears.
- Click Get Info
- Expand Open With (if it isn't already)
- Change it to "Preview"
- Click Change All button below the drop down menu
- Accept the prompt.
For a visual representation:
Preview.app is a mediocre PDF viewer at best. There is not much you can do, except to complain to Apple to finally get Preview.app up to date.
It is possible that the eBook reader you are using is also not quite up to date, and it writes slightly defective PDFs which Adobe Reader is able to fix, but Preview.app isn't.
Best Answer
By definition, either Acrobat or Adobe Reader would be considered standards for viewing a given PDF. Since your PDF does not display the embedded video in Preview, this would indicate a bug within Preview that needs to be reported to Apple.
In addition to decribing how you created the PDF, they'd need a copy of that PDF for testing.