Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
Therefore, Adobe will continue to prompt users to uninstall Flash Player and strongly recommends that all users immediately uninstall Flash Player. To help secure users' systems, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021. Major browser vendors will disable Flash Player from running after the EOL Date. Can Adobe assure us users of Adobe PDF that videos that we have embedded will continue to play properly in 2020 when Adobe terminate the support of Adobe Flash Player? Kindly reply me asap. I have called Adobe helpdesk from Singapore at 800-448-1643 but your staff failed to provide me any answer. Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. Our creative, marketing and document solutions empower everyone — from emerging artists to global brands — to bring digital creations to life and deliver them to the right person at the right moment for the best results.
Applications running in Adobe® AIR® can render not only SWF and HTML content, but also PDF content. AIR applications render PDF content using the HTMLLoader class, the WebKit engine, and the Adobe® Reader® browser plug-in. In an AIR application, PDF content can either stretch across the full height and width of your application or alternatively as a portion of the interface. The Adobe Reader browser plug-in controls display of PDF files in an AIR application. modifications to the Reader toolbar interface (such as controls for position, anchoring, and visibility) persist in subsequent viewing of PDF files in both AIR applications and the browser. Important: To render PDF content in AIR, the user must have Adobe Reader or Adobe® Acrobat® version 8.1 or higher installed. Detecting PDF CapabilityIf the user does not have Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat 8.1 or higher, PDF content is not displayed in an AIR application. To detect if a user can render PDF content, first check the HTMLLoader.pdfCapability property. This property is set to one of the following constants of the HTMLPDFCapability class:
On Windows, if Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader version 7.x or above is running on the user's system, that version is used even if a later version that supports loading PDF is installed. In this case, if the value of the pdfCapability property is HTMLPDFCapability.STATUS_OK , when an AIR application attempts to load PDF content, the older version of Acrobat or Reader displays an alert (and no exception is thrown in the AIR application). If this is a possible situation for your end users, consider providing them with instructions to close Acrobat while running your application. You may want to display these instructions if the PDF content does not load within an acceptable time frame. On Linux, AIR looks for Adobe Reader in the PATH exported by the user (if it contains the acroread command) and in the /opt/Adobe/Reader directory. The following code detects whether a user can display PDF content in an AIR application. If the user cannot display PDF, the code traces the error code that corresponds to the HTMLPDFCapability error object: Loading PDF contentYou can add a PDF to an AIR application by creating an HTMLLoader instance, setting its dimensions, and loading the path of a PDF. You can add a PDF to an AIR application just as you would in a browser. For example, you can load PDF into the top-level HTML content of a window, into an object tag, in a frame, or in an iframe. The following example loads a PDF from an external site. Replace the value of the src property of the iframe with the path to an available external PDF. You can also load content from file URLs and AIR-specific URL schemes, such as app and app-storage. For example, the following code loads the test.pdf file in the PDFs subdirectory of the application directory: app:/js_api_reference.pdf For more information on AIR URL schemes, see URI schemes . Scripting PDF contentYou can use JavaScript to control PDF content just as you can in a web page in the browser. JavaScript extensions to Acrobat provide the following features, among others:
Full details on JavaScript extensions for Adobe Acrobat are provided at the Adobe Acrobat Developer Connection at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html . HTML-PDF communication basicsJavaScript in an HTML page can send a message to JavaScript in PDF content by calling the postMessage() method of the DOM object representing the PDF content. For example, consider the following embedded PDF content: The following JavaScript code in the containing HTML content sends a message to the JavaScript in the PDF file: The PDF file can include JavaScript for receiving this message. You can add JavaScript code to PDF files in some contexts, including the document-, folder-, page-, field-, and batch-level contexts. Only the document-level context, which defines scripts that are evaluated when the PDF document opens, is discussed here. A PDF file can add a messageHandler property to the hostContainer object. The messageHandler property is an object that defines handler functions to respond to messages. For example, the following code defines the function to handle messages received by the PDF file from the host container (which is the HTML content embedding the PDF file): JavaScript code in the HTML page can call the postMessage() method of the PDF object contained in the page. Calling this method sends a message ( 'Hello from HTML' ) to the document-level JavaScript in the PDF file: For a more advanced example, and for information on using Acrobat 8 to add JavaScript to a PDF file, see Cross-scripting PDF content in Adobe AIR . Known limitations for PDF content in AIRPDF content in Adobe AIR has the following limitations:
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Adobe Flash Player has been a blight on the internet for more years than most people care to think about, but its days are finally numbered.
We've known for a number of years that the software is reaching end of life (EOL) at the end of this year, and Adobe will stop distributing it after this date. But Adobe is going further, and will soon start to prompt people to uninstall Flash Player from their computers.
Flash Player has been much-maligned for a long time thanks to numerous security problems. The software has managed to stick around for years because of the number of sites that embraced the technology. But Flash Player's days are now very much numbered as Adobe explains on a support page entitled 'Adobe Flash Player EOL General Information Page'.
As previously announced in July 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020 ('EOL Date'). We made this announcement in collaboration with several of our technology partners -- Including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla -- which issued complementary announcements with more technical detail on what the Flash Player EOL will mean for developers, enterprises, and consumers using their specific OS environments or browsers.
As well as being unsupported, there will be no point in having the software installed when 2021 rolls around:
Adobe will be removing Flash Player download pages from its site and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.
But to make sure that the insecure software does not stick around on too many computers, Adobe is going to start aggressively suggesting removal. The company explains:
Adobe will not issue Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL Date. We recommend that all users uninstall Flash Player before the EOL date (see manual uninstall instructions for Windows and Mac users). Users will be prompted by Adobe to uninstall Flash Player on their machines later this year and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.
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