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Comment by pbhjpbhj

9 days ago

I'm not sure, but I think it may have been that Adobe Viewer (or whatever it was) could run Flash?

Maybe, but PDF can contain Flash Applets, too.

However, modern version of Acrobat Reader do not support that anymore. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/flash-format-support-in-p...:

“Flash Player end-of-life (EOL) impacts playback and authoring of rich media having Flash content (.flv and .swf) in PDFs:

• Playback of Flash media (.flv and .swf) content in existing PDFs will not be supported.”