David V Glasgow wrote: > The interactivity within LC is no problem. The user effectively > creates a ‘dashboard’ profile representing their own assessment of > multiple risk factors at play in a particular case. Currently, a > representation of the resultant profile can then be captured as static > image or PDF. To keep the dashboard as clean as possible, within the > app, explanatory notes are hidden unless labels are clicked. I was > wondering if it might be possible to retain just this aspect of > functionality. So someone viewing previously saved profiles could > access pop-up explanatory notes. It seems to me that PDF could offer > that, but 1 it is hard to do and 2 many PDF viewers don’t offer the > interactivity promised by Adobe. > > I did briefly consider HTML, but wanted to deliver a single file as > the output, and an image of the dashboard profile is essential.
Being an LC fanboy I'd suggest making a viewer app in LC for these documents. :)
But ePub may be an excellent choice here: the format is essentially HTML/CSS in a Zip wrapper - all the things we love about HTML/CSS, delivered in a tidy single file.
You could write an exporter from your stack if you need to do it often. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
