Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-14 Thread Daniele Salvatore Albano
Just a little update (if you're yet looking a way to show pdf in your app without third party applications) Looking around i've founded poppler. Poppler is a library, based on xpdf, that support rendering ti image buffers (this mean that you can do full page render or partial page render, to avoi

Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-13 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Marc Reiter wrote: > @Jonathan: I 'didn't get it? Should I use an Intent, or do you think this is > a poor solution? It's more a general complaint about Android in general, and one that appears to have been fixed on my N1, at least for web pages and PDF files. As fo

Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-13 Thread Daniele Salvatore Albano
--- Short answer you can't use foxit pdf sdk because they supply a compiled binary only for windows --- Long answer While you can use any library that you want: - they must be posix compliant (or, however, need to run on linux) - they must support arm architecture - if the libraries have dependenc

Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-13 Thread Marc Reiter
@Jonathan: I 'didn't get it? Should I use an Intent, or do you think this is a poor solution? Anyone tryed the foxit PDF SDK? We use this in Windows environment with good results. But I've no idea if it is possible to bind with Mono for Android, and also I've to ask what we need to pay? Is it pos

Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-12 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Daniele Salvatore Albano wrote: > Naturally when the final user will go back, your last activity will be shown. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha *cough* *splutter*. While I agree that creating a new Intent to display a PDF is The Android Way, tapping the Back button MAY not, ne

Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-12 Thread Marc Reiter
Yes, but i have a content search, so if user put in a part or item number then it navigates to the page with relevant informations. So this would be more complex by doing it outside? -- View this message in context: http://mono-for-android.1047100.n5.nabble.com/View-PDF-file-in-App-tp5140064p514

Re: [mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-12 Thread Daniele Salvatore Albano
Consider that in Android, if you don't need that the view pdf feature is part of your software, you can broadcast an intent so a registered app will start and show the pdf. Naturally when the final user will go back, your last activity will be shown. Specifically, you can try an ACTION_VIEW inten

[mono-android] View PDF file in App

2012-01-12 Thread Marc Reiter
We use PDFs to view some content in iOS by the help of monotouch. As I can see PDF is not included in Android as in iOS. Does someone have a solution to view PDF files. Or do you know an other way to view a 100 page document within a Android app? We want to distribute the app for free, but we don'