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bgbevan
bgbevan
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February 15, 2020
Question

Transitions Don't Play in Mac Preview or On PC w/Windows 10

  • February 15, 2020
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I have a newer MacBook Pro with the latest OS X, Catalina.  I just downloaded a trial copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.  Everything installed and came right up.  I am interested in transitions so I set up a simple file with 2 PDF pages.  I found all the menu items to set up a simple transition between the two pages and it played fine in Acrobat, View > Play Full Screen.  Then I "Save As" and when I open the saved file in Mac Preview > View > Enter Full Screen, the transition does not play when advancing with the space bar or the arrow key(s).  Is there something I need to do in the save sequence or, does preview not play transitions?

 

I emailed it to my brand new PC w/ Windows 10 and double clicked on the file.  It opened....I think Windows Explorer....but still no transitions.  I would buy Acrobat if this one feature worked reliably.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 15, 2020

The feature only works when viewed full screen in Acrobat. Maybe some other apps support it too, we don't know. Most apps don't bother. For Preview, complain to Apple. For Internet Explorer complain to Microsoft. 

bgbevan
bgbevanAuthor
Participant
February 15, 2020
I kind of goes against the whole Portable Document Format. Now you have a “PDF” document that can only be played on a Mac/PC with Acrobat installed. For the casual user, which is where PDF really shines, this won’t work. These users won’t spend the money and don’t have the technical skills to run Acrobat at Full Screen. At the very least, the free Acrobat Reader should play these transition files.

Can’t complain to Apple or Microsoft, if Adobe doesn’t even support it.

Bill Bevan
Brian_Raila
Brian_Raila
Inspiring
February 16, 2020

"I kind of goes against the whole Portable Document Format. "  Yes, of course it does. But Adobe can't make Apple, Microsoft and Google change their apps. 

" At the very least, the free Acrobat Reader should play these transition files." It does. Are you under the impression that Preview uses Acrobat Reader? It doesn't. Internet Explorer might, but other browsers don't; however, internet explorer only supports add-ons in windowed mode.



"I[t] kind of goes against the whole Portable Document Format. "  Correct –– you are starting to understand:

 

Apple, and Microsoft, do not not have even one single application that operates a standardized, royalty-free, portable document of any sort whatsoever [look up the global ISO 32000, aka PDF].  Their 'word processor' programs are merely self-declared, proprietary, commercial file formats, uncompliant with any standards organization.

 

Preview.app is a rudimentary Image Manipulation Program; it is in no way a document reader.  How do you navigate to page 27 of 134?  How can you tell how many pages are even in the document.  How do you view detail at the sometimes-required 6400% magnification?  How should the chemist measure in units of angstroms, and microns, or the astronomer in parsecs, as we readily do in PDFs?  The angular measures of artists and architects are wholly unsupported by this uncalibrated Preview.app.  How do you open a document's attachments?  How do you manage bookmarks?  Or even return to your Previous View, for that matter?  How do you view two facing pages, in a scrolling mode?  How is one to comment/annotate/markup in ways necessary for productive collaboration, never mind matters of collecting and verifying a users's signature, configuring document security designations, etc.

 

Stick around, and you'll  marvel, and take delight, that full-functioned PDFs [e.g. w/. transitions] operate, free of charge to the user, on essentially any software operating operating sytem, with essentially any hardware traits [e.g. visual-display specification], manufactured from essentially the year 1990, to the present day, import data from essentially any file format, export finished files to essentially any format, in essentially any language, essentially anywhere in the world.  No network required.  Now –– that's what I call portable.

 

 

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