Adobe Acrobat SDK
Implementation Notes
Adobe® Supplement to the ISO 32000
Implementation Notes to the PDF Reference, sixth edition 125
8.9 Document Requirements
147. PDF 1.7 added the ability to specify requirements the PDF consumer application must satisfy before it
can process or display a PDF document. Although Acrobat 7.0 officially supports PDF 1.6, Acrobat 7.0.5
also supports this document requirements feature.
9.1 Multimedia
148. The following media formats are recommended for use in authoring cross-platform PDF files intended
for consumption by Acrobat 6.0.
9.1.3 Media Clip Objects (Media Clip Data)
149. If the
CT
entry is not present, Acrobat requires a
PL
entry to be present that specifies at least one player
that can be used.
9.2 Sounds
150. Acrobat supports a maximum of two sound channels.
9.3 Movies
151. Acrobat viewers do not support the value of
Aspect
.
152. Acrobat viewers support only the
DeviceRGB
and
DeviceGray
color spaces for poster image
XObjects. For indexed color spaces with a base color space of
DeviceRGB
(see “Indexed Color Spaces”
Recommended media types
COMMON EXTENSION
COMMON MIME TYPE
DESCRIPTION
.aiff
audio/aiff
Audio Interchange File Format
.au
audio/basic
NeXT/Sun
™
Audio Format
.avi
video/avi
AVI (Audio/Video Interleaved)
.mid
audio/midi
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
.mov
video/quicktime
QuickTime
.mp3
audio/x-mp3
MPEG Audio Layer-3
.mp4
audio/mp4
MPEG-4 Audio
.mp4
video/mp4
MPEG-4 Video
.mpeg
video/mpeg
MPEG-2 Video
.smil
application/smil
Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language
.swf
application/x-shockwave-flash
SWF File Format