FlexPaper v1.1, PDF viewing for Flex/Flash
Posted by Erik in Adobe, Flash, Flex, PDFJan 3rd, 2010 | 16 responses
The weather has been absolutely stunning here in New Zealand around x-mas and NY and while I have been in the water most of the time, I have still managed to spend some time on new features for my open source project FlexPaper. A bunch of minor issues were also resolved.
I dub this version 1.1.
New features / changes:
- Search function
- Ability to drag paper with hand cursor
- Various tooltips added
- Toolbar revisited to better fit contents
The search feature works best if you embed your fonts in the converted PDF. The recommended arguments for PDF2SWF (using an example file name of pdf1.pdf) from now on:
pdf2swf.exe file1.pdf -o file1.swf -f -G
Please see this page for a complete list of PDF2SWF arguments and their explanations.
I have updated the FlexPaper page. Find the complete guide here.
Preview below
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Hi,
It seems that there is a memory problem when using the thumb view, it doesn’t seems to be garbaged collected anymore.
I am under linux with flash Flash 10.0 r32 (debug) and flex 3.4
Hi Thierry,
I can’t seem to see any problems on smaller documents (<50 pages), I will take a look at a larger document (>300 pages) and see if I can see any issues. Do you have a sample swf to give me where you noticed it or do you notice it on my sample? Thanks for the heads up!
Update on the memory issue:
I did find the thumb view to be consuming too much memory on large documents due to a bug in flash player 9/10 not releasing MovieClip resources properly. I have therefore changed the method it uses to draw the thumbs which should reduce the amount of memory it uses a lot and remove that memory issue. Scrolling the thumb view should be a lot faster now too.
I have posted the latest build to http://code.google.com/p/flexpaper
Thanks again for your feedback
It would be cool if I also could use this to publish high quality JPGs of scanned handwritten documents. Need horizontal and vertical scroll as well as zoom.
Awesome. This is exactly what I have been looking for and haven’t been able to find until now.
Hi Erik,
Awesome work.
I’m trying to build the swf version (to integrate it into a flash development) from the svn sources tree.
But I can’t figure out how to do this. Can you give me more instructions ?
I’m also thinking there is a minor error on the FlexPaper guide page. Into the paragraph about using the component in Flex. The sample code use the following namespace declaration xmlns:fp=”com.devaldi.FlexPaper.*” but according to the svn sources it should be instead xmlns:fp=”com.devaldi.controls.flexpaper.*”, isn’t it ?
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Marc.
Erik,
This is shaping up to be an amazing piece of software
A couple of things that would be fantastic additions from my standpoint…
1) Customisation: Would it be possible to supply an xml layout file or something with the toolbar layout and perhaps custom icons…
2) “Landscape” Mode: Is it possible to view the document in a mode that scrolls horizontally instead of vertically
3) Next Previous buttons.
I am working on a project involving children’s books and customisation like this would be a huge bonus…
Let me know your thoughts
Cheers
Dave
Also,
Is it possible in any way to open it up as a .fla file an edit it this way as you can with other open source Flash components, or could I have a very quick tutorial on how to do this using flex and export to a Flash component
Cheers again,
Dave
Hi Erik,
Awesome work.
What about a “full screen” button ?
Best regards,
@vigli it will be part of next version which I am working on
@Dave I wish I had time to write more tutorials at the moment, I don’t think its possible to open it up as a .fla unfortunately
@Marc thanks for the heads up about the error. You’ll need to install the svn plugins for flexbuilder to build the .swf/swc.
@Dave
1) I am working on creating a way of allowing templates for the toolbar
2) & 3) on my to-do list
I want to insert some pdfs into my flashsite. I have converted them to swf and the question is how to get it in this flexpaper-frame. Anyone wanna help?
This looks very useful
but I might have found a little bug: You can drag the About popup out of view, leaving the rest of the flash blurred and useless until you reload the page.
@OneEyedOdin Thanks for the heads up!