On 15/02/10 15:02, Tom Huynen wrote:
Hi!
A client asked me to create a application that imports different data
documents into flash.
Html pages, word documents and pdf's. It's about the text only and the
layout doesn't matter.
Is flash the right choice for this?
Regards,
Tom
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Can you please clarify:
"It's about the text only and the layout doesn't matter."
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Flash is an excellent choice for this. I am currently developing a full
document delivery system for a client.
You can approach your task from different perspectives:
1. Use a conversion Web service if the client is happy with that. You
can use the scribd API to convert and display the documents.
http://www.scribd.com/developers
2. If there are any privacy issues (my case) and your client would
rather have the system in house then you need to create the following:
1. A tool that convert the various document formats into pdf
2. Convert the pdf document into a swf file and display it.
To get you started, here are a few open source projects that may be of
interest:
1. SwfTools:
http://www.swftools.org/
pdf2swf will convert your pdf into a swf file - it is a great tool
2. Flex paper for your viewer
http://www.devaldi.com/?page_id=260
3. If you need the text in the pdf file, you can use the pdftotext
utility that comes with the Xpdf library.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Joseph
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