________________________________ > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:06:07 +0200 > From: no spammers were Fed in this reply > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF with embedded Flash >
This will not solve your immediate specific problem but just for some perspective and reflection, the concern you have expressed is quite common in many contexts and creates not just problems for the developer but also the intended audiences when these issues get past development. You seem to have caught the problem fairly early in development but you see similar issues come up with deployed results as described below. > > > > I don’t have Acrobat Professional, > I only have Adobe Reader 9.1.0 which I have to stick to because people who > will > view these reports will not have Acrobat Professional. If I understand this, someone committed to using the latest-greatest features to do something fairly traditional and then various problems came up- if you have a slightly older browser this problem comes up when you visit web sites driven by such interests. In other areas of development, you may be familiar with people who want to code to the quirks of one compiler because the code is more sophisticated and then get stuck on some obscure or unique feature. In document publishing, this is my complaint about people who decide " but PDF is the only format you need and our menu structure gives you all the choices any reasonable person would want." Sometimes things simply don't work- for the longest time my Adobe Reader 7 never worked quite right even on normal documents but "pdftotext" got me everything I needed from most information sources. Sometimes stating the obvious is worthwhile- don't throw out options and alternatives unless there is a compelling risk-benefit profile. I don't know your situation exactly but having second or multiple sources/vendors or tools can be a big plus to achieving your objectives. I'm certainly not suggesting stagnation and I'm quite guilty of just using things without thinking about all the dumb limitations that could come up. But, it may be prudent to have a more complete understanding of risks and limitations of committing to a specific approach,vendor, or tool, to achieve a certain result, especially when your decision effects your customers( possibly including me LOL ). Without knowing your audience, constraints, or data types, I'd be inclined to think that your data could be conveyed without Flash and maybe even as simple text files. While this suggestion is surely a bit extreme, it is intended to be thought-provoking so you can think about the various tradeoffs involved. > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
