Loading PDF files in Air with flex

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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

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Find how you can render PDF files in Air. This process is very simple and will be done in just a few minutes.

1. First, create a new Air project named PdfReader that will also create an mxml file named PdfReader.mxml.
Open it so we can begin to edit our code.
2. Like for the WebBrowser we will use the HTML component.
3. The only thing that we have to do is to check if the user has a correct version of Adobe Reader installed because if the user doesn’t have Acrobat Reader 8.1 or later that will not work.
4. To do so, we have to detect the PDF capability with the static property pdfCapability of the HTML class.
The pdfCapability property can be one of the 5 values :

In our case we want to check the if the value is STATUS_OK
5. So in our code, add an HTML component to the…

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