Apache – Using httpservice to call a PHP function which takes parameters

In this comment to an issue related to this in the Adobe bug tracker T. Busser is describing what might be a viable solution for you:

"I've created a small class that will 'parse' a CSS file read with an HTTPService object. It takes apart the string that is returned by the HTTPService object, break it down into selectors, and create a new CSSStyleDeclaration object for each selector that is found. Once all the properties are assigned to the CSSStyleDeclaration object it's added to the StyleManager. It doesn't perform any checks, you should make sure the CSS file is well formed, but it will be sufficient 99% of the time. Stuff like @font, Embed() and ClassReference() will hardly be used by my customers. They do need the ability to change colors and stuff like that so they can easily theme the Flex application to their house style."

You could either try to contact this person for their solution or alternatively maybe use the code from this as3csslib project as a basis for writing something like what they're describing.

Adobe Air relies on the Adobe Reader browser plugin to render the PDF files. So a user of the AIR application will have to have Adobe Reader installed. This also means that any customization that might have been done by the user to the Adobe Reader interface will be reflected in their AIR app.

This being said, do you have Adobe Reader installed? It has to be at least version 8.1.

You could put a breakpoint in the code below where it checks the pdfCapability and it will tell you whether it supports pdf.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication 
    xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" 
    layout="absolute" 
    creationComplete="onCreationComplete()">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.core.UIComponent;

            public function onCreationComplete():void
            {
                if(HTMLLoader.pdfCapability == HTMLPDFCapability.STATUS_OK)
                {
                    var htmlLoader:HTMLLoader = new HTMLLoader();
                    var pdfUrl:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/pdfs/getting_started_with_Flex3.pdf"); 
                    htmlLoader.load(pdfUrl);
                    htmlLoader.width = 1024;
                    htmlLoader.height= 768;
                    pdfComponent.addChild(htmlLoader);
                }
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
    <mx:VBox>
        <mx:Label text="pdf below:" />
        <mx:UIComponent id="pdfComponent"  />
    </mx:VBox>  
</mx:WindowedApplication>