Rendering Office Files in an AIR app.

I realize this might be a stretch, but does anyone know if
there is some means of displaying common MS Office files in AIR?
Perhaps through incliding an ActiveX control, etc. in your AIR app?
I have some legacy files that would need to be used in an app...
this is one of the main sticking points still drawing me towards
using a SWF-EXE tool like Zinc instead of AIR.
Also, I'm interested in learning if anyone is generating PDFs
out of an AIR app using DisplayObject items, etc... any examples
out there, yet?

Hi,
AIR doesn't support ActiveX controls or displaying MS Office
files. :)
For dynamic PDF generation, take a look at
AlivePDF.
> I realize this might be a stretch
Definitely, dude. Definitely. :)

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