In other words - there is no good way to use PDF files right now. ;-)
Yep.
I agree. For the Director xtra, they used low-level Acrobat libraries, licensed from Adobe, I believe. The end result is extremely powerful. You can make your own version of Acrobat reader within Director, with search, fillable forms, printing, cross-document linking and PDF security functions all available. This is the sort of capability which would be truly awesome in Rev, which is arguably better suited to "document style" applications, as well as business apps.
In one of my current projects, I dynamically index several hundred complex PDF files into a high speed embedded database, and do full-context search among all of them, display, print, etc. Not to mention that I build an animated hierarchal menu for them on-the-fly, and have sliding panels which reveal keyword, author, etc.
Huh. Perhaps the company that wrote the Director xtra would consider farming out a copy to a Rev developer if they felt they could sell a few copies over on this side. Sounds about right though- Adobe in my experience is about as anti-standard, anti-open as Macromedia and their Flash format =). Both publish "open standards" but make it all but impossible to do anything with them if you don't license exorbitantly expensive libraries.
- Brian
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