RE: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-08-04 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Thanks everyone for the great informative answers! - MM ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-08-02 Thread g.wygonik
Is there specific metadata you're looking for? Creation date, title, etc? Or stuff like number of pages, page size, and other document layout specifics? If you're just looking for what it's title is, who created it and when, you can do a some-what brute force method of loading the entire document

Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-08-01 Thread Zárate
the connection? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 31 July 2008 21:35 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata? Hi Michael, The PDF specification is here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf

Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-08-01 Thread Ian Thomas
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Zárate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are happy with AS3, use Alive PDF: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=101 Nice, I'd forgotten about that. Does it read PDFs as well as write? Ian On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Paul Venton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a

Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-07-31 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Michael, The PDF specification is here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html AS3 is perfectly capable of reading it and pulling it apart via the ByteArray class, although you'd have to write the code to do that. However, you would need to load the entire PDF into the AS3 app

RE: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata?

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Venton
List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash read a pdf's metadata? Hi Michael, The PDF specification is here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html AS3 is perfectly capable of reading it and pulling it apart via the ByteArray class, although you'd have to write the code to do