Open pdf in flash player 10

Question

I need to open a PDF in flash player 10. The swf will not be running in a browser and there will not be an adobe reader program on the system. I need to know if its possible

Answer 1

Read this Article.

http://va.lent.in/blog/tag/pdf2swf/

It goes into great detail of the research and limitations of PDF with ActionScript

Answer 2

No, it's not possible to view a PDF in Flash without either converting the PDF ahead of time to a flash format, or using an external PDF reader.

It may be possible to port some opensource PDF reader to Flash, maybe using Alchemy, but this will be a long and hard project, not something you could quickly throw together.

Answer 3

There an other alternative, read PDF bytes and render it with AS3. Few libs already exist (on http://code.google.com):

• purepdf (with org.purepdf.pdf.PdfReader)
• as3-pdfreader (with org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser)

These PDF parsers don't support all avaiable PDF format's functionalities and I think you can't handle it with the same easiness of AIR integrated PDF reader (througt flash.html.HTMLLoader).

Answer 4

If this won't be running in the browser, how will it be running? As a stand-alone .swf file? Could you run this as an Adobe AIR application? AIR does support rendering of PDF content.