Importing pdf files or working with PDF files in player object

[rodney tamblyn]

Kevin,

I've done extensive testing with pdf viewing inside Altbrowser for my 
Oceanbrowser product.  It does work, but I'd much prefer to have a true 
embedded PDF viewer object.

~ Rodney

On 24/07/2004, at 12:02 AM, Kevin Miller wrote:

> On 22/7/04 9:07 pm, "Brian Yennie" <briany at qldlearning.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I don't think you'll find this anytime soon. As evidence of how
>> cryptic and hard to support the PDF format is, witness that there is 
>> no
>> standard API for Windows and Apple only recently spun it's own. Almost
>> all PDF viewing applications rely directly or indirectly on Acrobat
>> and/or an Adobe plugin. And that's just to display the file, let alone
>> break it apart and show it in some other format.
>
> I'm curious to know if anyone has tried to use a browser plug-in with
> altBrowser on Windows?  Do browser plug-ins work and can you display a 
> PDF
> that way?  I'm not proposing this as a be all and end all solution, 
> just
> something to try for now.
>
> Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
> Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools
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