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3732 Views 8 Replies Latest reply: Dec 15, 2009 8:16 AM by olegkon

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Udhay23

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Sep 9, 2009 4:54 AM

To open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application

How to open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application. I have opened the PDF file inside the AIR application. But i got stuck in opening the Exce and Doc file. Please help me in this issue.

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Jeff Swartz
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1. Sep 9, 2009 11:49 AM (in response to Udhay23)
Re: To open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application

AIR does not support this inherently. However, you could write code to parse these file formats. For example, the following is an ActionScript 3.0 library for reading and writing Excel files:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail& extid=1375018

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Udhay23
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2. Sep 9, 2009 11:20 PM (in response to Jeff Swartz)
Re: To open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application

Thank you for your reply.

Now I no need to open the Excel and Doc inside the AIR application. But just I want to open a Excel and doc through MS office itself from AIR application. Please help me in this.

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Robert Christensen
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3. Sep 11, 2009 6:02 PM (in response to Udhay23)
Re: To open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application

Today, AIR does not provide an API to allow you to open documents. However, this will be in the next major version of AIR.

- Rob
Product Manager, Adobe AIR

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dadashim
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4. Sep 21, 2009 5:10 AM (in response to Robert Christensen)
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Rob, that is great news. This will help developers too much. Will it be restricted to only doc, xls etc or will we be able to use ffmpeg or adobe media encoder like applications or batch files?

Not having a flv encoder tool to be used in air apps is really bad.

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ilsh
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5. Sep 21, 2009 2:35 PM (in response to Robert Christensen)
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Great to hear this! btw, when will the next major version be released?

Xu

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Robert Christensen
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6. Sep 21, 2009 3:01 PM (in response to ilsh)
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We have not made any official announcement yet, but keep an eye on our blog for AIR related news.

http://blogs.adobe.com/air/

-Rob

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7. Oct 27, 2009 7:26 PM (in response to Udhay23)
Re: To open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application

Captiv8tor taught me how to embed the pdf files within a Robohelp 8 project (using baggage files), and when I search for a word in the pdf in the AIR output, it finds it, but when I click on the link, it won't open the pdf file. In this thread, the guy says he got it to open the pdf file and I know in the Adobe AIR help systems (for programs like Framemaker, Robohelp, etc.) that you can open pdf files within an AIR application, but how is this done? Thanks.

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8. Dec 15, 2009 8:16 AM (in response to Udhay23)
Re: To open a Excel and Doc file inside the AIR application

Please check this out, it's using AIR2:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2009/11/open-in-excel-another-air-2-mini-sam ple/

Thanks,
Oleg.

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