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Samanda Rawando
How do I remove (or at least slow down) PDF automatic layers that flash
by too quickly to view the content? (I can't even find a keyword that
admits to their existance, but, rest assured, they exist, whatever they
are called, and they are HARD to stop!)
Here's the basic scenario:
1 ... I have a PDF which appears to be distilled from a Powerpoint file.
2 ... One page of the PDF appears to comprise multiple images.
3 ... When I view that one PDF page, the images flash by quickly.
4 ... About 8 or 10 images flash by within a few seconds on that page.
I have often seen "animated Powerpoint" but I had never seen animated PDF
before. It's amazing stuff (just like Powerpoint).
The only problem is the animation in PDF flashes by extremely quickly,
about three or four animations per second (my estimate), certainly too
quickly to grasp the content.
I'm sure the animation in the original Powerpoint (which I don't have but
I could get if I dug it up) occurred at a reasonable speed or more likely
at the click of the presenter's mouse button. But, something in the
distillation process apparently "broke" that method.
I'm surprised the animation even showed up in the resultant PDF as I was
not aware that PDF had that power of animation that Powerpoint has.
Anway, back to my question, I looked up animation and layering and
automation and other keywords in the Adobe PDF help but I could not find
ANYTHING about this apparently new feature (version 6.0 standard).
If I try real hard and press the left-mouse button and HOLD IT DOWN, I
can freeze the images, then lift up and HOLD DOWN again (real fast) and I
can get another image (not always the next one as these things fly by
fast) ... so by a series of this (spanning a period of an hour or so) I
was able to see and understand the content of that one slide.
But, spending an hour to view a single slide is a bit too much work.
I can't find an option to slow down these animations (I can't even find a
keyword that admits to their existance in PDF!)
MY QUESTION:
How do I slow down these PDF animations so I can actually see them?
by too quickly to view the content? (I can't even find a keyword that
admits to their existance, but, rest assured, they exist, whatever they
are called, and they are HARD to stop!)
Here's the basic scenario:
1 ... I have a PDF which appears to be distilled from a Powerpoint file.
2 ... One page of the PDF appears to comprise multiple images.
3 ... When I view that one PDF page, the images flash by quickly.
4 ... About 8 or 10 images flash by within a few seconds on that page.
I have often seen "animated Powerpoint" but I had never seen animated PDF
before. It's amazing stuff (just like Powerpoint).
The only problem is the animation in PDF flashes by extremely quickly,
about three or four animations per second (my estimate), certainly too
quickly to grasp the content.
I'm sure the animation in the original Powerpoint (which I don't have but
I could get if I dug it up) occurred at a reasonable speed or more likely
at the click of the presenter's mouse button. But, something in the
distillation process apparently "broke" that method.
I'm surprised the animation even showed up in the resultant PDF as I was
not aware that PDF had that power of animation that Powerpoint has.
Anway, back to my question, I looked up animation and layering and
automation and other keywords in the Adobe PDF help but I could not find
ANYTHING about this apparently new feature (version 6.0 standard).
If I try real hard and press the left-mouse button and HOLD IT DOWN, I
can freeze the images, then lift up and HOLD DOWN again (real fast) and I
can get another image (not always the next one as these things fly by
fast) ... so by a series of this (spanning a period of an hour or so) I
was able to see and understand the content of that one slide.
But, spending an hour to view a single slide is a bit too much work.
I can't find an option to slow down these animations (I can't even find a
keyword that admits to their existance in PDF!)
MY QUESTION:
How do I slow down these PDF animations so I can actually see them?