.doc/.pdf inflash?

[Steve Ralph]

Is it possible to display .doc and/or .pdf files in Flash?
(I suspect not)


Steve Ralph

[timberfish]

On 2005-04-14 10:07:29 -0700, "Steve Ralph" <steve@steveralph.f9.co.uk> said:

> Is it possible to display .doc and/or .pdf files in Flash?
> (I suspect not)
>
>
> Steve Ralph

You can't open one of those files in the Flash document during runtime,
but you can Import a PDF while you're creating the Flash document. A
Word doc can not even be imported though (at least not directly) -
you'd have to convert the Word doc to PDF or JPEG or something and then
import that into Flash.

If you want to have links on your Flash site that open PDFs or DOCs
then that's easy enough - you'd just use getURL and target the document
using _blank as the window target just like using the <a> tag in HTML.

It'll rely on the browser to handle the opening of the file instead of
the Flash plug-in which cannot open either during runtime.
--
timberfish

[Steve Ralph]

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense

essar

"timberfish" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> On 2005-04-14 10:07:29 -0700, "Steve Ralph" <steve@steveralph.f9.co.uk>
> said:
>

>> Is it possible to display .doc and/or .pdf files in Flash?
>> (I suspect not)
>>
>>
>> Steve Ralph

>
> You can't open one of those files in the Flash document during runtime,
> but you can Import a PDF while you're creating the Flash document. A Word
> doc can not even be imported though (at least not directly) - you'd have
> to convert the Word doc to PDF or JPEG or something and then import that
> into Flash.
>
> If you want to have links on your Flash site that open PDFs or DOCs then
> that's easy enough - you'd just use getURL and target the document using
> _blank as the window target just like using the <a> tag in HTML.
>
> It'll rely on the browser to handle the opening of the file instead of the
> Flash plug-in which cannot open either during runtime.
> --
> timberfish
>
>