I've been looking for a way to display PDFs in LC in a mobile app. The browser window is not even an option for Android because the Android browser will not render PDFs natively. I have not tried iOS yet but I am told that Safari can render a PDF. Then there's the java support. That's another can of worms. The PDF spec is like 6,000 pages. Adobe has an SDKs for rendering PDFs on both Android and iOS. With an external for each mobile platforms it might be possible to render and support interactive PDFs for mobile. For desktop Adobe also has free SDKs.
Just a thought...... Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Pete Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 8:11 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack In another thread, I've been soliciting advice about tools to use for Help Text preparation and display. One of the options was to go with a pdf file and display it using revBrowser. Been having some issues getting that to work but even if it did work, I don't think it will satisfy my needs. I want to use the pdf feature of showing bookmarks in a navigation pane (like the datagrid manual) and apparently that won't happen, at least on a Mac. I could, of course, simply launch the pdf file as a separate process but I'd really like to keep the help file within my LC stack if possible. Are there any other ways of displaying a pdf file within LC other than using revBrowser? I though I remembered seeing some sort of plugin but a quick search didn't come up with anything. I am still looking into ScreenSteps and WordLib. -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
