Printing in Adobe AIR – Standalone PDF Generation

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Is it possible to generate PDF Documents in an Adobe AIR application without resorting to a round trip web service for generating the PDF? I've looked at the initial Flex Reports on GoogleCode but it requires a round trip for generating the actual PDF.

Given that AIR is supposed to be the Desktop end for RIAs is there a way to accomplish this? I suspect I am overlooking something but my searches through the documentation don't reveal too much and given the target for AIR I can't believe that it's just something they didn't include.

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There's AlivePDF, which is a PDF generation library for ActionScript that should work, it was made just for the situation you describe.

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I just tried this out using your code. I made a change and removed the condition as I was getting errors about the table not existing.

 //if(!file.exists)
 //{
   createDatabase();
 //}

This got the datagrid showing the correct info. I think that there is something wrong with the way you are initialising the database file. I'm having a look into it at the moment.

Try using

sqlConnection.open(file, SQLMode.CREATE);

instead, for opening the database.

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Answer to question 3: Currently AlivePDF does not allow you to embed Flash content into a generated PDF. The generated PDFs can include text, images, simple graphics, and certain non-visual features such as bookmarks.

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