PDF in AIR

I am going to develop an AIR application with a main purpose of rendering and printing a PDF stream sent from the server.
My question is: will I be able to print a PDF content from AIR application or I will have to use Acrobat Reader controls?
Thanks

Adobe AIR applications render PDF content using the HTMLLoader class,
the WebKit engine, and the Adobe® Reader® browser plug-in
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappsflex/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7eb4. html
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I am going to develop an AIR application with a main purpose of rendering and printing a PDF stream sent from the server.
My question is: will I be able to print a PDF content from AIR application or I will have to use Acrobat Reader controls?
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