Link to a PDF from Flash?

This may be obvious, but I can't find how you create a link
in Flash that will download a PDF from a folder within the same
site. Any help would be appreciated.

You can link directly to a PDF file the same way you link to
anything else, if you are familiar with regular linking. Do you
know how to do that? Look up "getURL" for AS 1/2 or "navigateToURL"
on AS3.
Or else you might want the user to be forced to download the
PDF, rather than open it in the browser? In that case, check out
FileReference.download. The user docs actually have an example
demonstrating a PDF download:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveD ocs_Parts&file=00002210.html
HTH

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This question was answered by kglad, on Saturday, August 11,
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Answer
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internet.
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