Simple import of PDF as cast member

I believe that there used to be a method to import PDF and
DOC files into Director Cast members. Does anyone remember if this
did exist and where they may be currently found.
I want to be able to hold the content of an exisiting PDF or
DOC document inside a Director Cast (Dir 8.5) and then view / print
from the cast member. This is as opposed to turning them into
straight bitmap images. I am not wishing to have the user being
able to access the output via either a PDF reader or Word.
Thank you

if you use the gotonetpage script and put your pdf in an
external folder along with any videos etc it works e.g. for a
button link
on mouseUp me
gotonetpage "xxx.pdf"
end
this worked for me:)
Paula

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Hi. I am trying to script a simple 2d platformer engine for a larger University project. I have movement sorted with W and A and gravity. I can get collision detection with the floor by doing
if sprite 1 intersects sprite 2 then
     gvGrav = 0
end if
Sprite 1 is the player and sprite 2 is an instance of the cast member called ground. How would I get this to work with any sprite that is ground? Ill paste the full code below.
global gvRight
global gvLeft
global gvGrav
global gvDown
on enterFrame
-----------MOVE LEFT---------------------
if keyPressed("a") then
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    _movie.updateStage()
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    if gvLeft < - 15 then
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    end if
end if
if not keypressed("a") then
    gvLeft = 0
end if
-----------MOVE RIGHT--------------------
if keyPressed("d") then
    sprite(4).locH=sprite(4).locH+gvRight
    _movie.updateStage()
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    if gvRight > 15 then
      gvRight = 15
    end if
end if
if not keypressed("d") then
    gvRight = 0
end if
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gvGrav = gvGrav
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_movie.updateStage()
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I dare say there's a better way to do this, but an easy way is to set a global variable, do a sendallsprites message, and check the global variable again.
So, if you had an extra global in your man control script:
global hitman
then in your collision checking part you would say this:
hitman = false
sendallsprites #checkcollision 4
if hitman = true then
    gvGrav = 0
end if
The #checkcollision message would get sent to all sprites, and if you had a behavior placed on the floor sprites, that was like this:
global hitman
property mysprite
on beginsprite me
mysprite = the spritenum of me
end
on checkcollision me,s
if sprite s intersects sprite mysprite then
    hitman = true
end if
end
any one of those sprites that intersected with the sprite you ask about would then change the global 'hit man' variable to be true. To make a sprite behave like floor, you would just attach that behavior script.
Notice how the floor sprite makes a note of its sprite number when it first shows up on the stage, you could do the same with your other script, if it's attached to the man character. Then you wouldn't have to have it hard coded to '4', which would save some headaches later if you have to change the sprite layers.

Creating a new instance of a cast member

I want to create an instance of a cast member on stage, that
will not exist as a new member in the cast.
I read some stuff about child objects, but I wasn't
successful in getting it to work.
I also want to be able to create more than one instance, and
to be able to manipulate them separately.
Can someone help?
Thanks a lot,
Isaac

There is a variety of ways to accomplish this ("is" agreeing
with "a
variety" not "of ways"). You can puppet as many sprite
channels as you need
and assign the one cast member to each. Each will function
independently
although any modification to the cast member itself will be
reflected in
each sprite instance.
The following code takes the first cast member in the first
castLib and
places it on the stage 10 times using channels 1-10. It
places the sprites
side by side horizontally. The position is not important but
I showed that
each sprite can be treated independently, in this case by
setting the loc
property. Of course you can do this with any sprite property.
The
significant lines are 2 and 3.
repeat with x = 1 to 10
sprite (x).puppet = TRUE
sprite (x).member = member (1)
xPos = member (1).width * (x - 1) + (member (1).width / 2)
sprite (x).loc = point (xPos, member (1).height / 2)
end repeat
Craig
"ytlevine" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ggk8be$fr7$[email protected]..
>I want to create an instance of a cast member on stage,
that will not exist
>as
> a new member in the cast.
> I read some stuff about child objects, but I wasn't
successful in getting
> it
> to work.
> I also want to be able to create more than one instance,
and to be able to
> manipulate them separately.
> Can someone help?
> Thanks a lot,
> Isaac
>

Importing PDF into flash CS3 - Importer du PDF dans CS3

Hello.
Originally, i posted my question in french. So i will try to
convert in english, but my english is poor.
You can see the original in french, in back of this topic, in
bolded text
So, my problem : i can import some PDF files with Flash MX
2004, but i cannot do the same with Flash CS3.
When i import (import in the scene - Command+R) the PDF file
in Flash MX 2004, i got the vectorial logo correctly and the text
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it. Then i click it and there is a pop window appearing, talking
about "importing video". But my PDF is not Video… And at the
end, the result is a poor jpg image of my PDF, not the vectorials
that i would like.
So why the old Flash MX can do it easily, and the recent CS3
can not ?
What i have to do ?
Bonjour,
Jusqu'à peu, j'utilisais Flash MX 2004 et quand je
faisais une importation dans la scène, je pouvais importer des
fichiers PDF, et j'obtenais en quelques dixiemes de secondes,
l'importation du contenu (en général quelques logos en
vectoriel et du texte). Léger, simple, rapide, efficace !
Et puis j'ai installé la version CS3 Professionnal, et
là c'est la débacle.
Quand je fais importation dans la scène, et
sélectionne une PDF (déjà il m'a fallu aller sur
"tous les fichiers" pour le dégriser) il me sort une usine
à gaz dont voici quelques détails.
- Il commence par m'ouvrir une fenêtre "importer de la
vidéo" me demandant de sélectionner si ladite vidéo
est sur mon DD ou déjà "déployée" sur le web.
(Mon fichier PDF n'a rien de vidéo, c'est une image fixe, nom
de xxx).
-Si je continue, il me demande "comment je veux la
déployer ?". 5je ne veux rien déployer, je veux juste
importer 2 ou 3 vecteurs et du texte !)
- je lui dis de "l'incorporer dans le swf". Il me demande
comment je veux incorporer la vidéo. (C'EST PAS DE LA
VIDÉO, t'es sourd sale bête !!!)
- je lui explique que le "type de symbole" est graphique
(j'ai le même résultat si je mets clip) et il me demande
le codage.
- si je décoche "coder la vidéo" il refuse de
continuer, et si je le coche, il m'importe une espèce de jpeg
atroce, pixelisé à mort et inexploitable (tout du moins
pour l'usage que je compte faire).
Donc ma question est "est-ce que j'ai raté un
épisode ?" (oui, plusieurs, certes, mais de là à
changer complètement l'histoire, faut pas abuser) et la
suivante c'est surtout "comment faire pour importer convenablement
mes fichiers PDF qui ne comporte que quelques logos en vectoriel et
du texte, et le tout fixe fixe fixe, rien à voir avec de la
vidéo ?"
En attendant, je ré-installe Flash MX pour avancer un
peu, mais je ne peux pas croire qu'une fonction primordiale soit
supprimée, comme ça, sans remplacement.
Os court !

Is that really the end, doc ?

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Script cast member not found

Can anyone tell me why the %^$& I get a "script cast
member not found"
error?
I've been working in Director for 17 years and I get this
from time to time.
I generally just copy the code from the behavior, paste it
into a new
behavior, name the new one the same as the old on, then copy
the new cast
member over the old one and it solves it. But it happened
rarely enough
that I didn't bother questioning why. I know it's not a
syntax error
because the code runs fine after the above process. But it
does only
happens when I've made a change to the code in that behavior.
Now I'm working with a simple movie with one parent script
and a
prepareMovie handler that instantiates one child object and
I'm getting this
darn error all the time. My above solution isn't working
anymore. The
error points to the first line of a particular handler. That
first line was
a comment. So I got rid of the comment and the new first line
of the
handler is code and the error points to it. If you see where
I'm headding,
no matter how many lines of "errored" code I get rid of the
error alert will
always point to the first line of that handler.
I'm sure many have seen this because it's happened in almost
every version
of Director I've owned. And by the way, I'm in MX on a PC.
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com

Dean, I might do that. No, this has been going on long enough
that I sure
it's not any definable user error.
But, I did, after all of these years, discover something last
night. In one
case, I did get a legitimate script error that I fixed. When
I ran the
project again, I received the same script error, even though
it was a simple
fix and I was sure I corrected it. I recompiled several times
and ran it
again and received the error again. Then it dawned on me that
since parent
scripts remain in memory until disposed of, Director must
have been, for
some reason, referring to the old parent script. I had
already set the
object's global variable to 0 in my stopMovie handler and
even though that
handler might not always run when errors occur, I ran it from
the message
window to insure that the object's global was 0. But that
still didn't
solve the problem. Then I used clearGlobals in the message
window and
voila, the issue went away. Dare I say that this is a
shortcoming of
Lingo's design to allow variables to persist/linger after an
error?
But what still baffles me is that most of the time when I get
that
particular error,, even though I seemed to have found a
workaround, it is
not an actual issue with any code.
When it happens again, I'll send you the code. Obviously, if
I'm correct
about the scripts lingering in memory, then you won't receive
the error when
you run the movie.
I just find it interesting that there haven't been a bunch of
"Yeah, I get
that darn thing too" here.
Craig
Craig Wollman
Lingo Specialist
Word of Mouth Productions
212-928-9581
www.wordofmouthpros.com
"Dean Utian" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi Craig,
>
> Could it be a simple mistake of the script type not
being properly defined
> (movie/parent/behavior)?
>
> If you have a very baic movie where this error occurs
repeatedly, you
> could
> email me ([email protected]) and I'll take a fresh
perspective look at
> it.
>
> regards
> Dean
>
> Director Lecturer / Consultant
>
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
>
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au
>
>
>
>

Importing one Pdf document into another.

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endobj
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<<
/Type /EmbeddedFile
/Length 854
>>
stream
%PDF-1.5
1 0 obj
<<
/Length 334
>>
stream
q
1 0 0 1 128.10769621539 70.591821183642 cm
1 0 0 1 0 0 cm
1 0 0 1 0 0 cm
1 0 0 1 0 0 cm
1 0 0 1 -128.10769621539 -70.591821183642 cm
/DeviceCMYK CS
1 1 1 1 SCN
/DeviceCMYK cs
0 0.89 0.89 0.05 scn
0.2743205486411 w
2.743205486411 M
0 J
0 j
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h
B
Q
endstream
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2 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
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/Font <<>>
/XObject <<>>
>>
/MediaBox [0 0 255.11811023622 141.73228346457]
/Contents [1 0 R]
>>
endobj
3 0 obj
<<
/Type /Pages
/Kids [2 0 R]
/Count 1
>>
4 0 obj
<<
/Type /Catalog
/Pages 3 0 R
>>
endobj
xref
0 5
0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000401 00000 n
0000000568 00000 n
0000000624 00000 n
trailer
<<
/Size 5
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>>
startxref
679
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endobj
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<<
/Length 322
>>
stream
q
1 0 0 1 93.268986537973 71.826263652527 cm
1 0 0 1 0 0 cm
1 0 0 1 0 0 cm
1 0 0 1 0 0 cm
1 0 0 1 -93.268986537973 -71.826263652527 cm
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W n
1 0 0 1 55.961391922784 42.062484124968 cm
74.615189230378 0 0 55.961391922784 0 0 cm
/XobjectPDF1 Do
Q
endstream
endobj
5 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 6 0 R
/Resources <<
/Font <<>>
/XObject << /XobjectPDF1 1 0 R >>
>>
/MediaBox [0 0 255.11811023622 141.73228346457]
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>>
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6 0 obj
<<
/Type /Pages
/Kids [5 0 R]
/Count 1
>>
7 0 obj
<<
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>>
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0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000144 00000 n
0000000238 00000 n
0000001172 00000 n
0000001551 00000 n
0000001738 00000 n
0000001794 00000 n
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1849
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[email protected]
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http://www.bythom.com/pdffaq.htm
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