Questions tagged [alivepdf]

Questions related to AlivePDF, an open source ActionScript 3 PDF generation library.

AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library ported from the FPDF PHP project. It allows you to generate PDF's 100% client-side.

More details at http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/

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Should I use PurePDF or AlivePdf

My company has only two flex pdf libraries available, AlivePDF and PurePDF. I am having trouble finding very good documentation related to what I need to do so I hope to get some feedback from people who have used these libs. The primary thing I…
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Get page size using AlivePDF

Is it possible to get the page width and page height for a PDF during creation with AlivePDF? I need this to place a shape to the right side of the page, no margin or padding, sticked to the right side.
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Flex Alive PDF - Add high resolution images

Iam using AlivePDF for printing the components in flex. Components have text and images, are dynamically created. In this we have high resolution image and the text with embedded font style. AlivePDF's output text and image quality is not good. Text…
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How to create a PDF of my web application using AlivePdf

I have a large web application with verticalScrollBar with few charts and large datagrid. I am planning to create pdf of my web application using AlivePdf. Right now, Im using below code to creat a pdf of my application, but no luck. var…
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Flex AlivePDF export charts. Charts being clipped

I am trying to use AlivePDF to save a chart into a .pdf file. However, when I try to save my chart, it ends up clipping half of the chart in the pdf so it isn't even fully visible. It seems that the screencapture that AlivePDF took to generate my…
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AlivePdf Unicode character

It's possible using alivepdf to write a Unicode pdf? I see a Unicode.as class, but when I try, the pdf created cannot be opened by adobe reader. Could you please suggest me some code snippet to create a unicode string? [EDIT] I have made some…
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Is it possible to export a PDF from an AIR app for iOS

I have an app that is built from Flash CS5.5, exported using AIR3.1 and distributed through the Enterprise setup from Apple (allows me to bypass appstore approval). I'm now trying to have a PDF (generated using AlivePDF) exported somehow into the…
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Password Protecting a PDF Generated in AS3

I'm using the alivePDF library to generate PDFs in my AIR application with AS3. Is there a way to password protect or otherwise encrypt the PDFs I generate? Even if it's a different AS3 library, as long as I don't have to make the client install and…
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How to Render a PDF using Perl

Is it possible to render a pdf in a browser using PERL? What I have is a flash application that sends the rendered pdf binary to perl. The pdf is generated from AlivePDF. #!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe ## BEGIN { $ENV{PATH} = ''; delete @ENV{ 'IFS',…
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How to programatically close the file "save" window in flex?

I am using alivePDF to generate pdfs from my flex application. When I click on the save pdf button on my flex application, a "save as" window pops up which allows me to browse to the location where I want to save the pdf file. Its the same window…
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How can I group columns in a grid, while exporting to PDF using AlivePDF in Flex?

I am using AlivePDF for exporting my data in a grid, in Flex. I am also showing the same data on the browser using AdvanceDataGrid, in which grouped columns are also present. I wish to show the same grouped columns in the PDF too. Is there a way to…
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Flex Alive PDF - Print dialog not opening up in MAC

We had a requirement in flex (flash builder 4), where we need print the component and generate the pdf document and open up the print dialog box. For generating pdf from flex i used AlivePDF library. In the library itself we have a option…
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Flex/AIR and AlivePDF: Ordered and unordered lists

Is it possible to export ordered and unordered lists using AlivePDF? (Or is there another client side PDF generating library which can do this?) I'm building an AIR app which should be able to export slides with speaker notes a la Power Point, but…
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Can we directly print from alive pdf instead of generating the pdf

Is there a way to directly print using alive pdf (by passing the step where it saves the datagrid in pdf). Right now I am using Alive Pdf for generating PDF from datagrid and its doing a great job. Since flex printing by itself sucks I was wondering…
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Why is the PDF blank when trying to create a PDF version of a flex component?

I have a flex component, a VBox, that has content inside it. Text components mainly. The VBox is holding a report that I want to be able to save to PDF. I am using AlivePdf to achieve this but the PDF produced is blank when viewed in Adobe reader…
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