Nascif wrote: > I am sorry I didn't make myself clear. What I am looking for *is* support for > the recent RichMedia extensions as well. I believe that, just as in your > case, we want to embed not a "black box" movie or animation, but a dynamic > application that can be configured to show customized data that is also > stored in the PDF. > > Our investigation so far indicates that the previous support for embedding > SWFs that you mention is not enough to accomplish this - the calls the Flash > application has to make to its container are failing completely when we use > the previous method.
That's correct; you need the new version. > We want to use the Flex ExternalInterface.call() API to > call JavaScript functions in the PDF space, and we have not been able to do > that. We believe those calls are only enabled if the RichMediaAnnotation > extension is used when creating the PDF - thus my question. Correct. > For our prototype, our goal is to reproduce this example: > http://www.jamesward.com/blog/2008/11/05/portable-rias-flex-apps-in-pdfs/ > > It embeds an application created with Flex that can read data from the PDF > container stored in Forms. The data can even be updated later using remote > calls from inside the application. We have not been able to reproduce this > using iText (the example uses Acrobat Professional for the embedding) so far > due to the problem with making JavaScript calls I mentioned before. > > BTW, wouldn't this make a terrific example for the > ihttp://1t3xt.info/examples/ site? I have such an example and it was sent to Gunal Zeynep along with a jar file with a SNAPSHOT version of iText because 1T3XT BVBA was paid to do so. Other companies either (1) have to follow the advice given by Xavier, or (2) they have to wait for the next iText release, or (3) they can contact http://itextsoftware.com to find out how to get immediate support. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ 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 Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
