Flash Projector and PDF interaction

[Rupert]

Hi All,

I have a Mac/PC CD containing 2 big PDF files. One for Mac and one for PC.
Linking from a number of different pages in the PDF is a Flash projector - (again Mac and PC).
Inside my 2 flash files I have a number of different MovieClips.

Question: Remembering I said Mac and PC people :) Can I send some kind of "variable" (command, FDF, String, whatever ) from the PDF file to my Flash file so it displays different content (movieClips) based on where in the PDF file I have come from?

I can get around this by making several different smaller Flash files but I REALLY want to avoid that if possible.

Cheers,

Rupert

[farafiro]

Originally posted by Rupert_Freeman
.... based on where in the PDF file I have come from? What u mean by that??

[Rupert]

if you are looking at the page on little green people in the PDF and you click a button on that page it takes you to the part of my Flash file about little green people.

And if you are looking at the page on little purple people in the PDF and you click a button on that page it takes you to the part of the same Flash file only this time about little purple people.

get it?

Cheers,

Rupert

[farafiro]

Ahuh, like an internal hyperlink
I don't know if this can be done, even with the way u mentioned

[vilehelm]

Heh. I have no idea if this will work but I have a bizzare idea.

Link to static HTML pages that have a javascript onload redirect and pass the variable through javascript to the flash file? Or something like that? That seems worse than making a whole bunch of flash files but....

Check this page out, there are a whole bunch of PDF plug ins that might help.

http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/acrobat/main.html

[tcc123]

First of all, thank you to everyone who has tackled this PDF/Projector nightmare... seems like a popular think to execute.

Anyway, if anyone out there is on a Mac and STILL cannot get the Flash Projector to launch the Applescript to open a PDF, do what I did:

if your script is called "openpdf" RENAME IT TO "openpdf.exe"

on (release) {
fscommand("exec", "openpdf.exe");
}


Yes, I know EXE is a PC extension, but that got my Mac Projector to work!

That was driving me crazy.

Michael

[vilehelm]

I thought what Rupert was talking about was running the other way around? Launching something from within the PDF?

[Rupert]

Yeah Vile - you are right. I'm still looking for a solution for this other than having multiple Flash files.

Cheers,
Rupert