As we all know, PDF is a file format created by Adobe®, it lets you can view and print a file exactly as the author designed it, without needing to have the same application or fonts used to create the file.
PDF has become an Internet standard for electronic distribution because the look and feel of the original document complete with fonts, colors, images, and layout. PDF is so userful, can we render PDF contents in Adobe AIR applications? If can, how to do it?
We can load the PDF content using a data attribute in the object tag, versions 8.2.3 and 9.0 of Adobe Reader and Acrobat do not allow cross-scripting PDF content in the AIR application sandbox(Here is details).
So, We can use HTMLLoader to load the PDF and add the HTMLLoader to the window of AIR applications.
Following is the source code for redering content in AIR applications.
- if(HTMLLoader.pdfCapability == HTMLPDFCapability.STATUS_OK)
- {
- var htmlLoader:HTMLLoader = new HTMLLoader();
- var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest(pathUrl); //URL to the file
- htmlLoader.width = windowWidth; //width of the content area
- htmlLoader.height = windowHeight; //height of the content area
- htmlLoader.load(url);
- //wrapping into UIComponent
- var holder:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
- holder.addChild(htmlLoader);
- addChild(holder); //add it to any container
- }
Jeff Swartz worte an article describes how to communicate from JavaScript in the HTML page with JavaScript in a PDF page. if interesting, enjoy pls!
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/ajax/quickstart/scripting_pdf.html
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