Leveraging PDF and AIR

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At long last here are the slides and examples from my MAX talk: Leveraging PDF and AIR. Before you dig in, I’m going to warn you that the title of the session is kind of misleading. There isn’t a lot of true integration yet with PDF and AIR. Right now the extent is that you can render a PDF inside of your AIR application but you can’t go beyond that. Luckily PDF is pretty powerful, so being able to render PDFs inside of your AIR application gives you a lot of new options.

One of my favorite parts of PDF and AIR is the script bridging. Because there is a really good script bridge between JavaScript and Flash, you can use that to your advantage in PDF. This web example is fully enabled with PDF and AIR so that you can create some really great user interfaces in Flex/Flash and then go in and write things directly to the PDF DOM. Hopefully you guys will do some interesting stuff with it.

Slides are here (and embedded below) and the examples are downloadable from here.

Update: I can’t embed the Share document because I’m having feed validation issues when I do. I also added the link to the web example. Sorry ’bout that.
[tags]PDF, AIR, MAX[/tags]

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  • http://www.philosophyme.com Rick Smith

    Thanks for posting this Ryan. I really enjoyed your session even though the topic was cutting edge and I’m sure didn’t allow you to be as thorough as you would have like it (your onAir Bus Tour presentation was excellent). I’m sure it didn’t help having that McCormick center lady telling everyone to find a seat throughout the session as well (she was quite the annoying distraction for me anyway), but I’d certainly like to commend you on a job well done.

    Thanks again.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Thanks a lot Rick! I really appreciate the feedback. Hopefully at MAX next year there is a lot of cool stuff to talk about when it comes to PDF and AIR.

  • http://blogs.adobe.com/ekz ekz

    Cheers Ryan, good stuff.

    I was there as well in the front row with Johannes, and I had asked about JS hooks being exposed for the 3d control you showed. I’d do it if I had the time, but hopefully someone out there will whip up such an AIR app, where the 3d can be manipulated from flash. Anyone? Anyone? :)

    -ekz

  • http://flash-communications.net Brian Lesser

    Hi Ryan,
    I downloaded and unzipped the examples but can’t find the org.alivepdf
    folders and classes so wasn’t able to compile the examples.
    Did I miss something?
    Yours truly,
    -Brian

  • http://flash-communications.net Brian Lesser

    Hi Ryan,
    Never mind, I grabbed the files from:

    http://www.alivepdf.org/

    Cheers,
    -Brian

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Thanks Brian, I should make that clear. I wanted people to make sure and grab the latest version so I didn’t include it. But it’s pretty confusing.

    =Ryan

  • Pierre

    hello Ryan,

    I don’t known if you receive my first comment.
    i tried the scripting example but i have an mothing in result.
    i’m a begginner can you help me please in order to understand why i have no result and how correct this error?

    Best regards

  • Pierre

    Hello,

    Code is not available.

    Can you put on the server

    thanks