scroll inside interactive pdf

[Unicycle Rob]

I want to be able to scroll in a PDF page.

Interactive scrollable content(Either another PDF, Text, or an Image) in a single PDF page.

I know that InDesign has a scrollable frame overlay feature, but its only for Mobile access. I want to be able to view this in Acrobat on your desktop.

Not sure how to explain this properly but I hope someone understands and can help me. Thank you!

-Rob

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Can't be done natively. There could be a way to script/code something with Java.

[Unicycle Rob]

Great, can you point me in the direction I can could look into this code to implement?

Doing this would work natively for clients to easily view the PDF document?

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

I would advise against it. There is no real support for it in PDF and even if you could hack something together it probably wouldn’t work in most PDF readers.

[Unicycle Rob]

Ok thanks.

Its funny to think the only way of doing this would be in Flash (Not PDF but a reader that a lot of us already had). But now "Steve Jobs" has turned us all away from Flash and now I can't do this one simple thing anymore? Everyone would have had a flash player, but not anymore.

- Rob

[BobLevine]

Happened 7 years ago and using SWF in PDF was never a really good idea. There’s a lot of other choices for interactive content; choose the right one.

[Unicycle Rob]

What I meant was back then PDF Readers were equivalent to Flash Players. SO in other words know matter who you sent it to, they were able to view your content. Now we are stuck, like this situation.