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I'm using Adobe Captivate to capture various screencasts, which I output as Flash and then embed in PDF documents generated from FrameMaker. This is supported, and it works ok when I view the PDF in Windows. However, my internal users are on Macs, and the PDFs don't behave quite the same on Macs.
When I open the PDF in Windows (via either Acrobat Professional Extended 9, or just Acrobat Reader) and click on the Flash item, it plays fine and dandy. When a co-worker tested it on his Mac, each time he clicked on the item, it started, then stopped after about 1 sec. When I run it on MY Mac (I'm using a dual-boot) it fails differently: I get a message box at the bottom that says "buffering . . .," but no progress bar appears, and it never finishes.
Has anyone else experienced this type of problem? Has anyone else produced PDF files with embedded Flash? Can anyone advise?
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