- Now supports Adobe Acrobat/Reader 8.0 on Windows and on Mac OS X, version 10.2.2 +
(on Mac OS X, PDF documents open in a separate application window, instead of directly within Director's stage)
- Help files and user Manual: The online version of the user manual is now available in searchable Flash/HTML format,
for easy access while working in Director. Click Xtras > INM PDF Xtra > Help Online to open the help system. If you prefer viewing the manual as a PDF file, click Xtras > INM PDF Xtra > Help PDF
To ensure that your Shockwave movies auto-install the right version of this Xtra, copy the following text and paste it into your " Xtrainfo.txt" file ( for Director MX 2004, this file is within the Configuration folder; for previous versions it is located in the same folder as Director).
NOTE: Everything in square brackets must be on a single line without line breaks.
; INM PDF Xtra for Director by Integration New Media, Inc.
; http://www.inm.com/
[#nameW32:"pdf asset.x32",#package: "http://signed.inm.com/verisign/pdfdirector/8.0/pdfasset", #info:"http://www.INM.com/products/pdfdirector"]
Movies created using INM PDF Xtra version 3 or lower may have to be modified to work with INM PDF Xtra version 8.0. If your movie uses the PDF_Print() method please see the User Manual for changes to this method. If your movie uses the PDF_Print behavior, please change it for the new PDF_Print behavior that comes with INM PDF Xtra v8.0.
When launching Adobe Reader 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 are currently working on ways to address the issues.
To avoid complications during testing and deployment it is recommended to launch the user's default installed version of Adobe Acrobat, Reader (or Preview on Mac OS X).
- 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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