Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-30 Thread Stuart Campbell
Thanks Juan that's exactly what I was looking for! On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Juan Pablo Califano < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The byte manipulation is possible and not too hard if you're using AS 3.0. > Basically, you can load any file and specify the dataFormat as binary. You > c

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-30 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
Hi, The byte manipulation is possible and not too hard if you're using AS 3.0. Basically, you can load any file and specify the dataFormat as binary. You can then access the raw content of the file as a ByteArray. With it, you can do pretty much any manipulation you need. Once you have "reconstruc

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-30 Thread Stuart Campbell
> > > I don't think that Adobe is especially interested in promoting > FlashPaper, > > which is essentially a competitor or substitute for PDF. > Pity about FP being deprecated. However, this is a use-once-then-throw-away project so I'm not too worried about the technology not being supported in f

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-29 Thread Jiri Heitlager
I don't think that Adobe is especially interested in promoting FlashPaper, which is essentially a competitor or substitute for PDF. What a same, because it has some nice features. Come to think of it, now with the PDF isnt possible to embed flash content and doesnt that open up a way to do som

RE: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-28 Thread Dave Watts
> They don't need it to be impossible - just difficult. As the > documents are 200 pages long they don't think anyone would > screengrab them - and if they did they would be in violation > of an NDA. They just want to make it highly unlikely that the > document would end up being emailed around

RE: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-28 Thread Dave Watts
> It has been a year ago and I'd thought Adobe would have > brrought out an update by now. Geuss not! I don't think that Adobe is especially interested in promoting FlashPaper, which is essentially a competitor or substitute for PDF. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fi

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-28 Thread Stuart Campbell
ternet files, or do a "view source" to find the file, etc. On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Stuart Campbell" < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:22

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-27 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: "Stuart Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:22 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Document viewer Hi, I have a project where I need the client to be able to view documents in the browser (PDF, Word, RTF and Exce

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-27 Thread Jiri Heitlager
Venton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I take it they're not worried about the user taking screen grabs and email those off? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Campbell Sent: 26 June 2008 13:23 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-27 Thread Stuart Campbell
ke it they're not worried about the user taking screen grabs and email >>> those off? >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart >>> Campbell >>> Sent: 26 June 20

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-27 Thread Jiri Heitlager
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Document viewer Hi, I have a project where I need the client to be able to view documents in the browser (PDF, Word, RTF and Excel). However, the requirement is that the person viewing the document can never save the file and can never ge

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-26 Thread Stuart Campbell
Thanks Eric! FlashPaper looks like it could be very useful for us. We're probably going to need some kind of wrapper swf, which then pulls down the flashpaper swfs. The only problem is how to stop the flashpaper swf's from being cached on the client machine. I'm not sure we can rely simply on the H

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-26 Thread Stuart Campbell
taking screen grabs and email > those off? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart > Campbell > Sent: 26 June 2008 13:23 > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > Subject: [Flashcoders] Document viewer > &

RE: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Venton
I take it they're not worried about the user taking screen grabs and email those off? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Campbell Sent: 26 June 2008 13:23 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Document viewe

Re: [Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-26 Thread eric e. dolecki
You might want to check this out: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/ On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Stuart Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a project where I need the client to be able to view documents in > the > browser (PDF, Word, RTF and Excel). However, the requ

[Flashcoders] Document viewer

2008-06-26 Thread Stuart Campbell
Hi, I have a project where I need the client to be able to view documents in the browser (PDF, Word, RTF and Excel). However, the requirement is that the person viewing the document can never save the file and can never get their hands on it in order to email it to someone etc. It seems to me tha