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- Nathan_Adams
An odd request.
Does anyone know of a way of having an swf load in pages of a referenced pdf?
client wants one of those flash based magazines, with the page turning stuff, that is automatically generated from an uploaded pdf.
They're adamant that they've seen it done, but I'm racking my brain to work out how to do it.
- spongebob0
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good luck.
- agentfour0
you could set it up to run automatically through photoshop on a server and export as png then load dynamically into a swf....
good luck
- foreign0
There's an Xtra for Macromedia Director, that also works with Shockwave that does what you described: http://www.inm.com/products/pdfd…
I haven't used it, and it's quite expensive.
- mightyj0
If they want that page turning effect then you'll have to build some sort of server side script that can turn the pdf into a jpeg or gif and then place the files into an swf folder to load into the page turning app.
page turning app:
http://flashloaded.com/flashcomp…pdf to image converter on server:
http://www.bcltechnologies.com/d…
- aliceblue0
I was under the impression you can link or embed a swf file in a pdf.
would that not work???
- mightyj0
alice blue I think he was asking for pdf to swf not swf into a pdf.
- joyride0
ha... i just dropped a client that is doing the same thing. They've been working on a pretty advanced back end to make it automatic from the pdf's. But there presentation layer (the flash page turn part) was the one everyone uses:
Sample:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us…just modified. Sorry can't find the orginal source link.
But yeah, it's possible to do, buy you'll need to be familiar with some backend language. It will need to process the pdfs, and tell the swf what to do, how many pages, where they are etc.... i don't think its an easy job, but yeah its been/getting done
- aliceblue0
alice blue I think he was asking for pdf to swf not swf into a pdf.
mightyj
......duh .....
*slaps self
*goes out for double expresso