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We just (today) got a copy of Acrobat 9 Pro. We have some small Flash based (written in Flex 3) interactions that we want to insert into a PDF, these had previously worked when publishing with Acrobat 8 Pro, unfortunately that is no longer the case. Non-Flex based SWFs seem to work ok. Then to test further we downloaded Acrobat Reader 9 (on a second computer), and tested some of the old PDFs we'd created, and the Flex based movies no longer played there either!
What appears to happen is the Flex loading progress bar starts up, and then 'hangs' at approx. 1/3 completion. Anyone seen this before? We're putting together a test case that we can post, so hopefully I'll have that online soon.
1. Flash media embedded using Acrobat 9 only seems to playback inside Reader 9, Reader 8 just shows the poster for the media (along with a 'play' icon), even when PDF is set as compatible with Reader 8 and above (maybe we're just doing something wrong, here, but the file version does show as 1.7).
2. Simple Flex apps (like a 'hello world' we tested) seem to work when published with Acrobat 9 and played back in Reader 9, but not Reader 8.
3. For out app. - when published with Acrobat 8 this seems to work in both Reader 8 and 9, but when published with Acrobat 9 the behavior is as described above
I am wondering if it might not be that our app. attempts to initialize a LocalConnection object. I am going to test this out, but any links or advice would be welcome.
If anyone in interested, here are 2 links with samples (published with Acrobat Pro 9).
[url]http://demos.ipov.net/flex_in_pdf/test_simple_works.pdf[/url]
[url]http://demos.ipov.net/flex_in_pdf/test_complex_broken.pdf[/url]
To see a working example of the flex app. in a PDF you can view [url]http://demos.ipov.net/portal/portal_content/product_guides/Job%20Instruction%20Breakdown%20Sheet.pdf[/url]