I've read that you can create PDFs from your Flex application, and that you can embed Flex applications into PDFs using Acrobat. Do you think it's possible to create a PDF from a Flex application that has an embedded Flex app inside it?
Here's a possible scenario. You have some sort of custom report builder for a company that allows a user to generate their own custom reports from a template. They could drag and drop components (DataGrids, TextAreas, custom components, etc) onto the template and then 'publish' the final report as a PDF so it can be passed around. Ideally it would be a 'live' report that could retrieve the latest data from a server or something. Creating a static PDF looks to be fairly straight-forward, but a 'live' PDF looks harder. I was thinking if you could build a SWF from the report, it could be sent to the server and embedded into a PDF. Since the SWF is a stand-alone app, it would have all the stuff required to retrieve data from a server, or perhaps from LCDS, so that it's truely a 'live' document. Any thought's or ideals? Seems like it would be a really cool/useful application. Thanks!
