Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
Thanks Francis - and all the others who have suggested ways to deal with this. I think I will have to go with launching the pdf documents as a separate process. Seems like that is the only way to get a cross platform solution that will deal with the display of bookmarks without having to spend ti

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, For Pete, Michael, Colin . et alia ! I think we have been down this road before ! This is not a completely internal display of pdf files within a LiveCode stack, but it's the closest I could get, and it solves all my needs. I have a library of pdf files. I have

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Michael, Am 25.03.2012 um 17:06 schrieb Michael Doub: hint: PDFs are only displayed in a player object on the Mac! > Are there controls in the player object to manage the positioning of the pdf > pages. No, they are treated like a video and you cannot control them properly if at all. >

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-25 Thread Colin Holgate
By positioning, do you mean x and y position? Or do you mean which page is showing? In my suggestion I had proposed that you would set the currenttime of the player to navigate through the pages. On Mar 25, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > Are there controls in the player object to man

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Doub
Are there controls in the player object to manage the positioning of the pdf pages. This is news to me, where can I learn more? -= Mike On Mar 24, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Pete wrote: > Thanks for the reminder Colin, forgot about that. I'll give that a try. > Pete > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:05

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Colin, forgot about that. I'll give that a try. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I don't remember that part. My suggestion was to read the PDF in a player > object, by setting its filename property. > > > On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Pete wrot

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I don't remember that part. My suggestion was to read the PDF in a player object, by setting its filename property. On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Pete wrote: > In another thread, I've been soliciting advice about tools to use for Help > Text preparation and display. One of the options was to go

RE: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
I've been looking for a way to display PDFs in LC in a mobile app. The browser window is not even an option for Android because the Android browser will not render PDFs natively. I have not tried iOS yet but I am told that Safari can render a PDF. Then there's the java support. That's another can o