PDF in Flex

Is it possible to display PDF's inside of Flex web app, NOT Air.
I know I can open a new window with JavaScript but I'm not allowed to do that.

Hi,
Check FlexPaper
http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/

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Hi, i wanna create a pdf or a doc in flex builder for a website, i was watching a tutorial on XPAAJ but they dont have it anymore.
i also tried fpdf where u create a pdf using php, but for some reason when i pass the data it doesnt create it.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

pls check out this link
http://sunilrana.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/to-create-pdf-in-flex
also download alivepdf from
code.google.com/p/alivepdf/downloads/list
Thanks
Happy New Year

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Hai
   I need to create pdf generation from flex.
   I tried with LCDS and there is no way to create XDP template.
   live cycle designer needs dotnet support.. but i need to do with j2ee..
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   thanks in advance...

Hi there, there's a library called AlivePDF that allows you to create pdf files from Flex. Maybe that's what you're looking for.

How I Got WYSIWYG TLF Text To PDF from Flex

Awesome results read more here: http://hybridmindset.com/blog/How-I-Got-WYSIWYG-TLF-Text-To-PDF-from-Flex-Part-1

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2) Allow for viewing a pdf from a memory stream.
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kilyas, I to once thought it would be simple to load pdf's
into flex however there is no easy way to accomplish this task.
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take over the control of this. The one solution that I however did
come up with is by using one of the HTML component renderers within
flex. Something like this
http://www.flexcapacitor.com/htmlcomponent/examples/HTMLFrameInApplication.html
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then set the url straight to the pdf. This will then launch adobe
reader inside of your html component and allow the user to "view a
pdf within flex" kind of... The major flaw I've found with this is
it seems to lag when the browser window containing the flex
application is moved around as well as resized. If anyone has a
better solution though I would also like to hear it.

Generate PDF From Flex

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Hi,
thanks for your reply. I tried with alive pdf, but source
code only AIR files. can we use this in web based flex?. How we can
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I'm building an internal app, so I'm not concerned about initial size. Once developed it should be cached on the local box.
I have to generate various 30 page PDF's that are already defined. I can populate them on the server using a tool like pdftk and then download them to my flex app just like any PDF.
I would like to only download the .fdf file and have the .pdf file as a resource internal to my flex 4 app. The purpose is to conserve bandwidth when the app is running at remote facilities.
It seems like the .fdf has an internal pointer to the .pdf, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I'm guessing that the path is relevant to the directory that contains my .swf.
Has anyone done this or can point me in the right direction???
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%FDF-1.2
1 0 obj
<</FDF<</F(/templates/NC.pdf)/Fields[
<</T(form1[0].#pageSet[0].MasterPage1[0].Resident[0])/V(Minnie Mouse)>>
<</T(form1[0].#pageSet[0].MasterPage1[0].NumericIdentifier[0])/V(1234567)>>
<</T(form1[0].#pageSet[0].MasterPage1[0].Date[0])/V(today)>>
<</T(form1[0].Page38-SectionZ[0].Z0500[0].Z0500Body[0].Z0500BYear[0])/V(1999)>>
]>>>>
endobj
trailer
<</Root 1 0 R>>
%%EOF

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like to explore how to create a PDF file of the BarChart or other
charting components.
The requirement is simple. We show the BarChart and a button
to view it as a PDF. When the user presses the button, the PDF
viewing dialog should come up and the user can opt to save the PDF
or view it (the standard way a browser deals with the PDF).
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understand clearly how Flex communicates with
LiveCycle ES (or PDF Generator) to display the PDF. Any ideas
or tutorials that does this would be appreciated.
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In order to generate a PDF document, you have to call a
method on a Java remote object that uses the XFAHelper and pass it
some arguments.
I modified the PDFService example in the documentation so I
can:
1- specify any document as opposed to hardcoding the PDF
template name
2- write the PDF to a file as opposed to writing it in the
user's session
Here is the source:
package com.mycompany.flex.remoteObjects;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import flex.acrobat.pdf.XFAHelper;
import flex.messaging.FlexContext;
import flex.messaging.util.UUIDUtils;
public class PDFService
public PDFService()
public Object generatePDF(Document dataset, String
PDFdocument) throws IOException
// Open shell PDF
String source =
FlexContext.getServletContext().getRealPath("/pdfgen/" +
PDFdocument);
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source = source.substring(0, index) + source.substring(index
+ 2, source.length());
XFAHelper helper = new XFAHelper();
helper.open(source);
// Import XFA dataset
helper.importDataset(dataset);
// Create a unique ID
String uuid = UUIDUtils.createUUID(false);
source =
FlexContext.getServletContext().getRealPath("/dynamic-pdf/" + uuid
+ "_" + PDFdocument);
index = source.indexOf("./");
if(index != -1 )
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helper.save(file);
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helper.close();
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level.
In Flex, I wrote a Cairngorm command that calls this remote
object and displays the generated PDF:
package com.mycompany.core.commands
import com.adobe.cairngorm.commands.ICommand;
import com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEvent;
import com.adobe.cairngorm.business.Responder;
import
com.mycompany.core.business.GenerateAndOpenPDFDelegate;
import
com.mycompany.core.control.event.GenerateAndOpenPDFEvent;
import com.mycompany.core.model.ModelLocator;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.collections.*;
import mx.core.Application;
import mx.controls.Alert;
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Responder
[Bindable]
private var model:ModelLocator = ModelLocator.getInstance();
public function GenerateAndOpenPDFCommand():void
public function execute(event:CairngormEvent):void
trace("Executing GenerateAndOpenPDFCommand...");
var delegate : GenerateAndOpenPDFDelegate = new
GenerateAndOpenPDFDelegate( this );
var generateAndOpenPDFEvent : GenerateAndOpenPDFEvent =
event as GenerateAndOpenPDFEvent;
delegate.generateAndOpenPDF( generateAndOpenPDFEvent.pdfVO
public function onResult( event : * = null ) : void
var item:Object;
var result:String = (event as ResultEvent).result as String;
trace("GenerateAndOpenPDFCommand::onResult\n\n" + result);
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navigateToURL(new URLRequest(ModelLocator.FLEX_URL +
"dynamic-pdf/" + result), "_blank");
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Application.application.requestProgressBar.visible = false;
Application.application.requestProgressBar.progressBar.source =
null;
Application.application.requestProgressBar.progressBar.label
= this.model.languageDictionary["000012"];
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// Hide the progress bar overlay
Application.application.requestProgressBar.visible = false;
Application.application.requestProgressBar.progressBar.source =
null;
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FaultEvent).message);
FLEX_URL is created in this way some place else in the
application:
// Get the server URL from the Application's
var server:String = Application.application.url;
var index:uint = server.indexOf("Shell"); // Shell is the
name of my app folder
server = server.substring(0, index);
// This is the flex.war/ URL
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session as Adobe suggests, but I couldn't figure out how they use
the PDFResourceServlet. First of all, I had to get its code.
I had to decompile the java class files in the samples to get
the source of the PDFResourceServlet as it is not in the
documentation. Here it is:
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import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
public class PDFResourceServlet extends HttpServlet
public PDFResourceServlet()
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException
doPost(req, res);
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException
String id = req.getParameter("id");
if(id != null)
HttpSession session = req.getSession(true);
try
byte bytes[] = (byte[])(byte[])session.getAttribute(id);
if(bytes != null)
res.setContentType("application/pdf");
res.setContentLength(bytes.length);
res.getOutputStream().write(bytes);
} else
res.setStatus(404);
catch(Throwable t)
System.err.println(t.getMessage());
private static final long serialVersionUID =
0x7180e4383e53d335L;

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I did some further testing and it isnt just my custom component that portfolios hate. I made a simple custom that was a canvas with a datagrid inside and it did the same error.

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Big text showing in PDF from flex input

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PDF with Flex/Flash not running on iPhone

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On the iPhone the Flex is not shown.
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I've tried successfully stagewebview to load a pdf from a web server with this:
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looks like your equipmentArray is empty. Put a breakpoint inside that method to see if there is any data.

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I posted this in an Acrobat forum, but I was wondering if
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