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Adobe Examples vs Real Portfolios regarding swfs and flex

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2009-02-04 07:01:02
thinkDM2
Registered: Feb 4 2009
Posts: 20
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It's nice that Adobe provided examples of portfolios, but, they were all built with flex, how is a normal user supposed to accomplish anything close to the examples? Specifically the Aquo examples, they made the header a swf, without flex my understanding is that it is not possible. Am I wrong?

Also will Catalyst RIA's be playable in acrobat, or is this a pipe dream?

Tom
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2009-02-04 08:38:20
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
The navigators displayed within a Portfolio really have no option but to require Flex if you wish to write your own - they're Flash files but with a slightly picky file structure, and it's not as simple as dropping a couple of graphics onto the stage. Given the navigator UI has to cope with all the intricacies of document interaction, thumbnail display, etc. which are outside the normal remit of Flash, it's only in the extensible Flex environment you can code those features in. There's an SDK available on request which includes the files you'd need, but it of course assumes you know how to use Flex.
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2009-02-04 08:49:04
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thinkDM2
Registered: Feb 4 2009
Posts: 20
Thank you UVSAR - I do not know much Flex unfortunately, do you know if Catalyst RIA's will be able to be used seeing how it generates Flex actionscript?
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2009-02-23 09:38:10
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danschonberg
Registered: Jan 28 2009
Posts: 13
Do we have to use Fex to get Rich Media to play automatically in the pages thumbnail preview?
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2009-04-13 04:54:31
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168472
Registered: Apr 13 2009
Posts: 5
I am a flex developer. I am working on creating a PDF Portfolio, where there will be a swf file embedded in one of the pdfs in the portfolio.
Here I would want to make calls from within the SWF (which would be sitting inside one of the PDFs in the PDF portfolio) to show up, one of the other PDF forms (embedded in the PDF Portfolio). (I couldn’t figure this out still)
Can you please let me know how two pdfs in a PDF portfolio interact with each other?
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