Re: Flex PDF support

2012-05-08 Thread Pratimesh Bharude
Can we talk less about Adobe and move Apache flex to the heights, above our imaginations, Exceptation :) With Regards, Pratimesh On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Doug McCune wrote: > > > > I can't imagine it would be ever be in Adobe's interest in breaking > > the web by somehow trying to br

Re: Flex PDF support

2012-05-08 Thread Doug McCune
> > I can't imagine it would be ever be in Adobe's interest in breaking > the web by somehow trying to break existing installs of Flash Player or > prevent future installs. Michael, you'll soon come to learn that this is the Adobe party line about the Flash/Flex relationship. Adobe has no interes

Re: Flex PDF support

2012-05-08 Thread Alex Harui
On 5/8/12 7:08 PM, "Michael Montoya" wrote: > > One very general thought is that it would be wonderful if we could develop a > native means for viewing PDF documents in Flex. In my experience this has been > the Achille's heel of our Flex apps and has led to very kludgy work-arounds > using s

Re: Flex PDF support

2012-05-08 Thread Michael Montoya
PDF support is just one thing I would like to see... :) Another feature I think would be quite useful is to support a reasonable number of configurable 3D primitives and be able to instantiate them via MXML utilizing a syntax such as: This would automatically add these shapes to the Stage3D

Re: Flex PDF support

2012-05-08 Thread Guthmann, Scott
Welcome, Michael! The feature that you described sounds fantastic. I would love to see the code. We are all volunteers and we each work on what we want to. Kudos to you for telling us what you would like to see so nobody duplicates the effort. What help do you need from us? Sent from my MOTORO

Re: Flex PDF support

2012-05-08 Thread Dave Fisher
On May 8, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Michael Montoya wrote: > Hello community, > > I'm a fellow JavaEE / Flex developer in NYC excited by the possibility of > having a hand in shaping the future of Flex. > > After looking through Vaadin's documentation in preparation to port my > company's current por