hi steve, a couple of months ago i've started to learn programming xtras, and my first xtra was "postscript-xtra", a scripting-xtra which you can use to produce PDF on the fly from director. it's a wrapper to the ghostscript-dll, so you can create any file-format that ghostscript can create, like PDF, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PSD, JPG, EPS,..., and, with some additions (anyone in this list interested?), even SWF and SVG. at the moment it's windows only, but it could easily (for a code-warrior-guy, at least) be ported to mac. you can download the xtra and some demos (one demo shows how to produce pdf, it's sort of a mini-quarkxpress in director) from: http://dasdeck.de/staff/valentin/psxtra/psxtra.zip
there is no documentation, so mail me if you need help. regards, valentin Vargas Media wrote: > Hi > Is there a way to create PDF's on the fly from within Director? I > read there > was an article written about this on DOUG but couldn't track it down. > I tried FileIO and was able to create a PDF file but it wouldn't open > in > Acrobat Reader. Acrobat reader returned a "File does not begin with > a %'" > error when I tried to open it. Are there specific headers that I need > to > write from Director > via FileIO so that Acrobat will recognize the file? > Any help very appreciated. > Thanks Steve > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
