How to slow down PDF animation so it won't take an hour per slide?

[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?

 

[Dick Margulis]

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?

First, the person who created the PDF from the PowerPoint had the option
of printing each animation state to a separate page. That would have
enabled you to just page through the eight or ten slides and watch the
layers build up, one at a time, adding whatever new information the
author intended, in the correct sequence. However, the author did not do
that, instead creating a single page that shows the end state of the
animation sequence. This may or may not have been intentional, nor may
it have been the best solution. If you have access to the person who
made the PDF from the PowerPoint, perhaps you could discuss this.

Second, if you have Acrobat (rather than the free Adobe Reader), you can
use the TouchUp Object tool to remove layers from the page so you can
see what is beneath them. First, save a copy of the file. Then open both
the original and the copy. Next, ensure that you have the thumbnails
pane open in both windows. Drag the thumbnail of the slide in question
from the original file into the copy, adjacent to where the same slide
is in the copy. Repeat several times so that you have as many multiple
copies of the problem slide as you think you will need. Starting with
the penultimate copy, remove the objects on the top layer. Go back one
slide and remove two layers. Continue in this fashion until the first
slide in the series has just a single layer.

Third, if you don't have access to the author and you don't have a copy
of Acrobat, you're SOL. Sorry.

 

[HeroinNO.4]

Yes , find the man who created the PDF file , and ask him to modify it
, but if you can't find him , I advise you to convert the PDF file to
HTML , then modify it , a tool called Unif PDF To HTML Converter can do
this , you can download it free at www.unifpdf.com