- Now supports Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7.0 on Windows.
(Still supports Acrobat/Reader 5 & 6 on Windows and Acrobat/Reader 5 on Mac OS 8 & 9.)
- Online Help: The user manual is now available in searchable Flash/HTML format,
for easy access while working in Authorware. Click Xtras > PDF Xtra > Help
to open the help system
- When PDF documents are downloaded from URLs, progress indicators are now displayed automatically. They can also be turned off
- The default Adobe application launch scheme has been simplified to provide a more
consistent user experience across varied end-user configurations. The result is that the global option Acrobat/Reader/Any has been removed from the PDF Xtra member options dialog box, and a new method, PDF_LaunchViewer() replaces the former PDF_LaunchAcrobat() method to explicitly launch the Reader or the full version of Acrobat.
- The PDF_Print method is simplified, so that it only takes a single parameter, to specify
which sprite channel contains the PDF document; it always displays the Print dialog box to allow the user to select printing options.
Movies created using previous versions of PDF Xtra may have to be modified to work with PDF Xtra version 7.0. If your movie uses the PDF_Print() method please see the User Manual for changes to this method.
When launching Adobe Reader (versions 5 and 7) from CD-ROM on Windows there are inconsistent results, depending on what applications have been previously installed and the state of the system registry. We currently advise that you launch the application from CD-ROM only if no other version of Acrobat or Reader is installed on the end-user's system.
- Because the technology currently available with Adobe Acrobat/Reader on Mac OS X is not equivalent to that available in previous versions of Adobe's products on Mac Classic OS, PDF Xtra cannot open PDF documents as sprites, on Authorware's presentation window. Instead PDF documents are opened in a separate Adobe application window
- The above limitation also means that the PDF documents cannot be controlled via Authorware Scripting methods on Mac OS X. Only the PDF_Open(), PDF_LaunchViewer(), PDF_CloseViewer and PDF_AcrobatInfo() methods are supported on Mac OS X
- On Mac OS X, PDF documents will always open with the "Initial View" settings they had when last saved in Acrobat
- On Mac OS X, PDF documents cannot be downloaded from URLs
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