{"id":2739,"date":"2023-08-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2023-08-09T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:01:53","slug":"adding-audio-to-pdf-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2023\/08\/22\/adding-audio-to-pdf-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Audio to pdf Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the recent <strong>Teaching and Learning Conference<\/strong>, prompted by <strong>Michelle Miller&#8217;s <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2023\/04\/Michelle-Miller-Using-Adobe-Acrobat-to-Improve-Accessibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">poster on Adobe Acrobat<\/a>, we were asked if it was possible to add audio to a pdf document. Here&#8217;s how to do it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add Audio in Adobe Acrobat Reader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click on <strong>Comments<\/strong><\/li><li>Click on the attachments icon<\/li><li>Select <strong>Record Audio<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2023\/04\/AdobeAudioSelect.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2742\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click the cursor where you want the audio to appear. A <strong>Sounder Recorder <\/strong>prompt will appear.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2023\/04\/AcrobatAudioRecording.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2740\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You now have two options:<ul><li>record directly into acrobat<\/li><li>browse for an existing file<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Record audio comments directly into Acrobat<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click the <strong>Record button<\/strong> and speak into your microphone. Click the <strong>Stop button<\/strong> when you have finished.<\/li><li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to add the recorded audio<\/li><li>Select your preferred icon and  colour, then click <strong>OK<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2023\/04\/AcrobatAudioIcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2745\" width=\"409\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2023\/04\/AcrobatAudioIcon.jpg 535w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2023\/04\/AcrobatAudioIcon-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 85vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Embed an existing audio file<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click the <strong>Browse<\/strong> button<\/li><li>Navigate to your existing audio file<\/li><li>Click <strong>Open<\/strong><\/li><li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to add the audio file<\/li><li>Select your preferred icon and  colour, then click <strong>OK<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: <em>this only suppor<\/em>ts <em>uncompressed WAV<\/em> <em>and AIFF files<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent Teaching and Learning Conference, prompted by Michelle Miller&#8217;s poster on Adobe Acrobat, we were asked if it was possible to add audio to a pdf document. Here&#8217;s how to do it: Add Audio in Adobe Acrobat Reader Click on Comments Click on the attachments icon Select Record Audio Click the cursor where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2023\/08\/22\/adding-audio-to-pdf-documents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adding Audio to pdf Documents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[532,70,108,640],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide","tag-adobe-acrobat","tag-audio","tag-conference","tag-poster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}