Sound will not embed in PDF from Powerpoint

[Chitownbabs]

I have placed a wave file that is 27kb into a powerpoint presentation and
have converted to a PDF. In the pdf it willnot play. It just shows as an
image. I have changed my setting in PP under Options to 5000kb but this is a
small save file. What else should I be looking for?

 

[Chitownbabs]

I use Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 9. I just inserted a wave file from my
hard drive not the MS collection then converted the one page to a PDF. It
worked for me before but for some reason it does not want to work this time.
I even tried a blank PPT and just inserted a few wav files and they still did
not work in the PDF. I was doing that just in case the document itself was
corrupt.

 

[Bonny Wang]

Audio, video or any multi-media element cannot be embedded in PDFs from PPT,
PDF can only give you the static pictures of the slides.
If you want to convert PowerPoint to another format for securing the
presentation, I think you can think about converting them to Flash.Flash can
maintain all editing elements, such as animations, SmartArt, transitions,
video,audio and so on. And also it cannot be edited by others.
You can easily find out many converting software on Interner, such as
Wondeshare
PPT2Flash(http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-std.html#164),
Articulate Presenter(http://www.articulate.com/products/presenter.php).

 

[Enric Mañas]

Chitownbabs,

Check http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PowerPoint_Animated_PDF.html (note the
"Convert Multimedia to PDF Multimedia")

1. Try it with an mp3 instead of a wav

2. Open the pdf. The music is probably there, but the place where you have
to click to hear me music has probably moved. Check if the music plays when
clicking down and to the left of the loudspeaker's image. You'll know that
the music is there and where to click because you will notice that the
cursor changes its shape...

Cordialmente

Enric

 

[Enric Mañas]

Steve,

From Acrobat 7 for sure, I don't remember if it was possible with earlier
versions (for sure it was for waves, but, at some moment, I don't know when,
they didn't work anymore)

I wonder if it'd work better in the PDF if you linked the WAV rather than
embedding it, though.

Mmmm... running to test it...

Mmmm... that Rindsberg is... *THE BEST*...

;-)

Linked waves... sound...

Veeeery cordialmente

Enric