Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-12 Thread Ali Drongo
Thanks for all of your replies guys and apologies for sending this email a few times, the googlemail server hasn't been reporting that the mail was sent. It sounds as if this is going to be tricky in AS. I guess this could also be done in some server-side PHP relatively easily, maybe

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Thomas
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Ali Drongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all of your replies guys and apologies for sending this email a few times, the googlemail server hasn't been reporting that the mail was sent. Just so you know - this comes up a lot - Google Mail is 'clever' enough

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-12 Thread Ali Drongo
Hi Ian, My problem with Googlemail is that the web-page was saying 'sending' for a few minutes without telling me the message had been sent. I got impatient after looking at the page telling me the message was sending and pressed again. Thanks for your advice re the pdf

[Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread ali drongo
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable, scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I find are a few years old. I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the flash application and move it about, scale and

[Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread ali drongo
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable, scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I find are a few years old. I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the flash application and move it about, scale and

[Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread ali drongo
Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable, scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I find are a few years old. I would like the user to be able to upload a pdf then view it in the flash application and move it about, scale and

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Steven Sacks
You cannot load a PDF into Flash. You must have misread any article that you think said you could. ali drongo wrote: Hiya, does anyone know the best way to get a PDF into my SWF as a viewable, scalable moveiclip?I've done a bit of research on this but most articles I find are a few years

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I would say that you cannot may not be 100% correct. You probably could with AS3 as you can load anything in Binary format and manipulate the file as you see fit. It just probably has not been done yet... You could look at Server Side code to deal with your PDF and turn it into

RE: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Watts
You cannot load a PDF into Flash. You must have misread any article that you think said you could. It is possible, however, to load the Acrobat ActiveX control into a Flex application, and have it load a PDF. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but the LiveCycle Workspace application does

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Dave Watts wrote: It is possible, however, to load the Acrobat ActiveX control into a Flex application, and have it load a PDF. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but the LiveCycle Workspace application does this. That wouldn't really be helpful to the

RE: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Watts
It is possible, however, to load the Acrobat ActiveX control into a Flex application, and have it load a PDF. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but the LiveCycle Workspace application does this. That wouldn't really be helpful to the original poster though, I suppose. As an AIR