Category Archives: AIR

Text Layout 1

Adobe just released a beta of the “Text Layout Framework” for Flash Player 10, which enables among other things:

Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others.

Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around [...]

Fireworks, Flex and AIR integration 0

Check out this interesting video from Adobe about some of the new features in fireworks CS4.

Parsing and rendering PDFs inside AIR with Flash 0

A while back i did a prototype that needed the functionality of parsing and rendering PDFs inside an AIR application, oh the joy…
Cleverly enough Adobe did include an HTMLLoader class with the AIR bundle, which also allows you to
load a PDF inside, just as it would in a normal browser. Tadaa! Simple aint it.