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Anonymous
September 3, 2011
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Can I add a Youtube video to a PDF with Acrobat 9 Pro?

  • September 3, 2011
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I was reading about PDF portfolios in Acrobat X Pro: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/online-eportfolios-multimedia-presentations.html

It says and I quote, "With Acrobat X Pro, you can also present live web content. For example,  you can insert a YouTube video to play within your PDF Portfolio, or you  can add a web page that will dynamically load the most current page  content. Anyone can view your PDF Portfolio using free Adobe Reader®  software."

Is this also possible with Acrobat 9 Pro? I have tried following all the steps (I even did a search and found this: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/training2/acrobat/AcrobatwMultimedia.pdf), however, whenever I add the Youtube url using the multimedia tool in Acrobat, I get the message 'no media file has been specified.'

Is it not posisble to add Youtube videos to PDFs in version 9 pro?

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Jbarrigon
Jbarrigon
Inspiring
June 29, 2017

You can include videos by URL using HTTP or HTTPs but not directly from Youtube, the url has to have the name and extension of the video. You can explore the use of javascript in acrobat, there are some options with java to include youtube videos.

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markwill_2112
Known Participant
October 10, 2012

This is the best place for all things Acrobat: http://acrobatusers.com/

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markwill_2112
Known Participant
October 10, 2012

Yes you can, and it works very nicely: [link removed by forum host - do not post affiliate links]

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Anonymous
September 3, 2011

I worked it out and successfully added a Youtube video.

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Anonymous
October 10, 2012

Can you please outline how you did it?

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    Dave Merchant
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    October 10, 2012

    PDF Portfolios in Acrobat X support the use of 'live' Web pages as documents (they open in an embedded browser window). You can therefore create a reference to a page from the YouTube website, but the content will only appear if the viewer has a Web connection and allows trust access. It's essentially no different to including a Web link in a regular file, except the browser appears within the Acrobat or Adobe Reader window.

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