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I believe that the reason Acrobat doesn't do what you want it to do is that
it is not pointed to presentations like that.
If I open a document in Acrobat, I want to read it, and be able to control
it, at least to some extent. I would be immensely frustrated at having a set
speed that it moved at.
If you want to create something that auto-advances and is graphics-oriented
(which I am assuming based on your advance rate), perhaps you should try
PowerPoint or Macromedia Flash, which are designed as presentation platforms
and not text platforms.
Of course, I do not know who your audience is, but I would suggest that you
make sure none of them are visually-impaired or learning disabled before you
lock them into viewing things at a certain speed.
Heidi Waterhouse
MQSoftware
> regarding overriding user settings in Acrobat Reader (I had a
> pdf file in
> which I wanted it to auto-advance every 5 seconds; this couldn't work
> because unless the user manually went into their copy of
> Acrobat and set it
> to auto-advance, it just sat still on the first page). Why?
> So, the bottom line is that it couldn't be done. I cannot
> BELIEVE that Adobe
> doesn't have a way to do this. I am completely shocked. BTW,
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