This may be a stupid question but I can't seem to find a clear cut answer anywhere. I would like to know:
Can AIR apps display swfs without the Flash player installed on the user's machine?
Can AIR apps display PDFs without Acrobat reader (or some similar PDF viewer)?
From what I can find, the Flash Player is not required on the target machine to run swfs from within an AIR app. Is this correct?
And it also seems that you do require Acrobat 8 or greater installed on the target machine to view PDFs. Is this correct?
Any help clearing this up would be great.
Yes, an AIR app can load an swf without having the user to install Flash Player plug in or Flash standalone player.
No, AIR apps need Acrobat Reader installed. I don't think any other PDF Viewer will do.
You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1 or higher installed as "AIR applications render PDF content using the HTMLLoader class, the WebKit engine, and the Adobe® Reader® browser plug-in."
Regarding the PDF support, check this link for a detailed information.
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Hi I create a flash game using adobe flash player 6 (AIR).
If I test it using "Test Scene", it run very well.
I set it to run on Adobe AIR desktop target 3.2 (my PC is 4.0)
I publish the game in format .air and create a certificate.
The problem : I can't install my game (in AIR package) on my computer.
The warning is:The application could not be installed because the installer file is damaged. Try obtaining a new installer file from the application author.
I already use administrator account but it does n't work. Can you help me??
I found the solution. It is because my system clock is not accurate and I use self certificate (using time stamp).
So, I must repair my system clock and publish adobe AIR application again with new certificate.
read this
[sharedObject location
my LSO's should be found at
%APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\
But in Windows 8 I only see a #SharedObjects folder here
%APPDATA%\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\
And its NOT the location of my shared objects!
I also understand that as of AIR3.3 Adobe changed the location of LSO's to make AIR for mobile compatible with iOS, but not sure if and how this impacts AIR for desktop on Windows. So can anyone solve the mystery?
ok found it for Windows8
\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\client\Local Store\#SharedObjects\
I am running WIN7 and have tried with the latest versions of IE, Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome and the ALL download the entire file before showing it.
I am monitoring traffic with Fiddler2.
I know that there are questions around here about how to respond for a byte range request from the adobe web plug-in but I am not going there before I see Fast Web View working.
Some links I have found.
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/web_designers_guide
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1817750/do-most-browsers-make-multiple-http-requests-when-displaying-a-pdf-from-within-t
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Range-Specific-Requests-in-ASP-NET.aspx
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
A possible reason why you don't see 'fast web view working' may be that you don't test it with the correct PDF files. For fast web view to work, the PDFs need to be 'linearized' (sometimes also dubbed 'web optimized'). Most PDFs aren't linearized by default.
Ghostscript and Acrobat Professional (and some other programs) can convert existing PDFs into linearized ones.
Update: To check a PDF for its properties, run pdfinfo your.pdf or pdfinfo your.pdf | grep Optimized:. It should say Optimized: yes.
The pdfinfo utility is available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. The
I've done some research all over the net, I guess I am just looking for conformation.
Due to how Microsoft has put security on autorun in vista and above. Autorun from a usb no longer works. Correct? It seems like it will still bring up the options to run .exe but for some odd reason I cannot get it to run a .pdf. This site has suggested that I load up a pdf reader and run that and then call it to run the pdf. But a generic pdf reader would still have to go through the install prior to running it, something I am trying to avoid.
The other idea I came up with was cause of this specialty usb manufactures have stated that they their usb drives can autorun files because they are formated to be local disks.
So after some experimenting and doing this I converted my usb to a local to see if that would work and pasting the autorun.inf in there with the correct code...
[AutoRun]
shellexecute=mypdf.pdf
icon=mypdf.ico
label=mypdf
sadly it does't work
Also after thinking about it creating a local disk would only work with the driver software that I loaded up onto that usb... so say it is a 64bit and the client has a 32bit it wont run. (right?)
Can someone just confirm that there is no way to autorun a pdf from a usb? or even have it as an option to select from when it is plugged in for the first time. I cannot believe I have spent an entire day trying to just get autorun to work.
Thanks for taking the time to read this nub question
Try using a PDF viewer which does not require installation, eg:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/sumatrapdf.html
From this site:
http://www.snapfiles.com/features/ed_usb_software.html
Using sumatraPDF portable installation you can launch that from the flash drive.
The way I did it is by creating autorun.inf with the following:
[autorun]
icon=autorun.ico
label=Label for Drive
action=Action Description
open=autorun.bat
And a autorun.bat file with the following:
start SumatraPDF.exe ../pdfname.pdf
However, if the user has autorun turned off it will not work and in Windows 7 and above autorun functionality for flash drives is restricted to label and icon only.
I'm using QTP 9.1 and Reader 9.
I downloaded the Adobe PDF Test Toolkit from HERE and went through the following steps from the included installation instructions:
Extract the zip file into any location (I used C:\PDFTT)
Copy AcroQTP.exe, Automation.api and regPDFTestToolkit.bat to the
folder [Adobe Reader Install folder]\plug_ins
Run regPDFTestToolkit.bat (which ran without error).
After going through these steps, the add-in should appear in QTP's add-in page, but it does not.
What am I missing?
Thanks!
I found the requirement list, it looks like you will have to upgrade from QTP 9.1.
Requirements:
Client software:
Adobe Acrobat 9.2 or
Adobe Reader 9.2
HP Quick Test Pro 9.5 or 10.0, and updates
Flex Builder 3.0.2 (optional)
Flex QTP Plugin (optional)
Server software:
LiveCycle Server 8.2 or later (optional)
Browser:
Internet Explorer 6 or later (XP) or
Internet Explorer 7 or later (Vista)
Do a full installation of adobe acrobat reader ( Not Adobe Reader ).I had problems trying to do it with adobe reader alone. The add-in should appear after a full installation of the same.
Best of luck.