I hope this is the right forum for my question - it's the closest one I could find...
My problem is that I get an error message when I try to embad a MOV file into a PDF using Acrobat 9. This has worked in the past. Now suddenly I'm being told the annotation cannot take place either because it can't find the file (but surely it can find it: it was among the items present to me to choose from), or because "the URL is unreachable (make sure the proxy server settings are correct)".
I should mention that these 'MOV' files are actually JPGs that I want to open in a floating window, and that I simply renamed from JPG to MOV so Acrobat's MOV-playing code would kick in. This is a technique I have used successfully in the past - unless the past ones were GIFs (I forgot which) - and furthermore, one can simply double-click these 'MOV' files in Windows Explorer and Quicktime opens them with no problem.
(As to the hypothesis that previous successes were with were with GIFs instead of JPGs. But I just tried that, and Acrobat perceived right away that the MIME types were different and didn't even initialize the authoring system. With JPGs re-named to MOVs, it gets past there, and only complains when you specify the parms (e.g. No Poster, etc.) and it tries to load it. With these renamed GIFs just as with the renamed JPGs, if you simply double-click the 'MOV' in Windows Explorer, Qucktime opens it with no problem.)
As to the 'proxy' issue, I do have a proxy set in my browser (Foxfire), but I have disabled it by chosing 'No proxy' in Options. Just to be sure, I re-booted, brought up Foxfire, and confirmed that it was still set to 'No proxy'. But I still get the error. What could it be?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
- Peyton
