I think that is probably your best bet at this point. It is possible
to read a PDF in flex, but rendering it is a bit tricky. First if
it's compressed you'll have to unzip parts of it. Once you have it
decoded you could execute the drawing commands on a UIComponent and
display the text roughly the same, but I'm not sure about images. If
they are JPEG I suppose you could feed it to a SWFLoader, but if it's
Tiff, I don't think you can do that. But if you know that the PDF is
not going to have images or just simple images and you keep them
simple then I think it could be possible to build the component to
display it.
Paul
On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Nick Collins wrote:
perhaps if you had a library on the backend that could convert that
PDF into a series of PNGs that you could then load into Ely
Greenfield's flexbook component?
On 11/6/07, frank_sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if there is a way to render PDF inside a Flex
component. I'm familiar with AIR
and its ability to open PDF files using the platform's Acrobat
Reader plugin, but what I'm
looking for is a more light-weight approach where the PDF would be
rendered by Flex itself.
I've also been looking at AlivePDF, the new Flex PDF library, but I
didn't find a rendering
component in that API.
Thanks for any suggestions,
-- Frank
