How do I display a PDF in Adobe Flex?

Question

Looking for a way to display a PDF in Flex. I\'m sure there are several ways. Looking for the easiest to maintain / integrate / most user friendly. I\'m guessing it\'s possi

Answer 1

Check out: http://www.swftools.org/ for tools to convert your PDF to SWF, speifically pdf2swf- http://www.swftools.org/pdf2swf.html

Answer 2

Check out Share on Acrobat.com, there you can upload PDFs and make them embedable Flash files (sort of like YouTube for documents). Should be possible to load those into Flex. Not an ideal solution, but unfortunately you need to convert the PDF to an SWF somehow to be able to load it into a Flex application. I don't know of any good tools that do this. If someone else knows please share.

If you target AIR you can load a PDF into a HTML view, but that doesn't work when running in the browser (the HTML component is only available in AIR).