Re: [flexcoders] PDF rendering in Flex
perhaps if you had a library on the backend that could convert that PDF into a series of PNGs that you could then load into Ely Greenfield's flexbook component? On 11/6/07, frank_sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to render PDF inside a Flex component. I'm familiar with AIR and its ability to open PDF files using the platform's Acrobat Reader plugin, but what I'm looking for is a more light-weight approach where the PDF would be rendered by Flex itself. I've also been looking at AlivePDF, the new Flex PDF library, but I didn't find a rendering component in that API. Thanks for any suggestions, -- Frank
Re: [flexcoders] PDF rendering in Flex
I think that is probably your best bet at this point. It is possible to read a PDF in flex, but rendering it is a bit tricky. First if it's compressed you'll have to unzip parts of it. Once you have it decoded you could execute the drawing commands on a UIComponent and display the text roughly the same, but I'm not sure about images. If they are JPEG I suppose you could feed it to a SWFLoader, but if it's Tiff, I don't think you can do that. But if you know that the PDF is not going to have images or just simple images and you keep them simple then I think it could be possible to build the component to display it. Paul On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Nick Collins wrote: perhaps if you had a library on the backend that could convert that PDF into a series of PNGs that you could then load into Ely Greenfield's flexbook component? On 11/6/07, frank_sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to render PDF inside a Flex component. I'm familiar with AIR and its ability to open PDF files using the platform's Acrobat Reader plugin, but what I'm looking for is a more light-weight approach where the PDF would be rendered by Flex itself. I've also been looking at AlivePDF, the new Flex PDF library, but I didn't find a rendering component in that API. Thanks for any suggestions, -- Frank
RE: [flexcoders] PDF rendering in Flex
Did you look at the Adobe Share APIs: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Share:API . You should be able to upload a PDF and get a SWF preview back. -David From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Decoursey Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] PDF rendering in Flex I think that is probably your best bet at this point. It is possible to read a PDF in flex, but rendering it is a bit tricky. First if it's compressed you'll have to unzip parts of it. Once you have it decoded you could execute the drawing commands on a UIComponent and display the text roughly the same, but I'm not sure about images. If they are JPEG I suppose you could feed it to a SWFLoader, but if it's Tiff, I don't think you can do that. But if you know that the PDF is not going to have images or just simple images and you keep them simple then I think it could be possible to build the component to display it. Paul On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Nick Collins wrote: perhaps if you had a library on the backend that could convert that PDF into a series of PNGs that you could then load into Ely Greenfield's flexbook component? On 11/6/07, frank_sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to render PDF inside a Flex component. I'm familiar with AIR and its ability to open PDF files using the platform's Acrobat Reader plugin, but what I'm looking for is a more light-weight approach where the PDF would be rendered by Flex itself. I've also been looking at AlivePDF, the new Flex PDF library, but I didn't find a rendering component in that API. Thanks for any suggestions, -- Frank
Re: [flexcoders] PDF rendering in Flex
The Share suggestion is an interesting one, but I think lots of us are looking forward to the day when there is client-side rendering from ActionScript baked into the run-time, or an Adobe-supported extension. Ironically, I think the client-side PDF rendering options are greater in the .NET world. I understand that unifying the PDF and Flash runtimes is a multi-year effort. On 11/6/07, David Mendels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you look at the Adobe Share APIs: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Share:API . You should be able to upload a PDF and get a SWF preview back. -David
