PDF Xtra - Release
Notes for Version 2.2.1
Installation
Important note for Macintosh and Windows users
Important note for Director 7 Windows users
Improvements since version 2.1.2
Bug
fixes
Installation
- Make sure Director
is not running
- Place the PDF
Asset Xtra in Director's Xtras folder. This folder is located in the same
location as the
Director application (usually something similar to C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director
8\Xtras
on Windows or Hard Disk:Applications:Macromedia:Director 8:Xtras on the Macintosh).
- Start Director.
- Choose File
> Preferences > General and make sure Animate in Background is turned
on.
- Make sure the
Insert > Media Element menu contains a new entry named PDF Document.
Note: The latest versions
of the Xtra is available on our website at http://www.IntegrationNewMedia.com/
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 (located in the same folder as
Director). Everything in square
brackets must be on a single line without line breaks.
;PDFXtra for Director by Integration New Media, Inc. ; http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/
[#nameW32:"pdf asset.x32",#package:"http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/downloads/products/pdfdirector/verisign/2.2.1/pdfasset",#info:"http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/products/pdfdirector"]
Important
note for Macintosh and Windows users
Because PDF Xtra
uses Acrobat or Acrobat Reader as a rendering/printing engine, and due
to both legal and technical limitations of Macintosh/Acrobat, Macintosh/Reader,
Windows/Acrobat
and Windows/Reader, not all features are available or supported identically
on these two platforms.
PDF Xtra tries to standardize those features as much as possible, but some
differences remain.
See Appendix 2 of the user manual for more information.
Important
note for Director 7 Windows users
Due to
a bug in Director 7, you must replace the file DirAPI.DLL (usually located in
C:\
Program Files\Macromedia\Director 7.0) with the version that comes with Shockwave
7.0.2
or 7.0.3. Otherwise, projectors may sometimes fail to execute frame scripts.
(This problem
seems to be resolved with Director 8, so no change is necessary if you are authoring
in Director 8).
Improvements
since version 2.1.2
- PDF Xtra can
now launch a specified version of Acrobat/Reader from an absolute path, or
a specified version of Reader from a CD-ROM. This allows you to control the
version of
Acrobat/Reader that is used with your application,
regardless of what is already installed on the end-user's computer. See the
new methods,
PDF_LaunchAcrobat() and PDF_CloseAcrobat().
- PDF Xtra can
now launch the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese versions
of Acrobat Readers that are delivered on CD-ROM
- PDF Xtra applications
can optionally display a progress indicator while downloading linked or
updated PDF documents. See Progress Indicators for details.
- Up to 200%
faster download of PDF documents.
Bug
fixes in v2.2.1
- In PDF Xtra
v2.2, there was a speed issue loading PDF Xtra with mounted volumes on Mac.
This problem is fixed with PDF Xtra v2.2.1.
- In PDF Xtra
V2.2, there were delays opening successive PDF documents in Acrobat.
This problem is fixed with PDF Xtra v2.2.1.
- On Windows,
if Acrobat or Reader was already running (either outside of Director, or
using PDF_LaunchAcrobat) PDF Xtra would generate an error, -1050, upon opening
a
PDF document. This is now fixed with PDF Xtra v2.2.1.
Bug fixes in
v2.2
- Printing. When
passing a number of pages greater than the total number of pages of the
document, the printing failed. Fixed.
- When Acrobat
or Acrobat Reader displayed the Auto-Update dialog box, PDF Xtra would
appear to freeze the Director application while waiting for the dialog box
to close. Fixed.
- PDF_Error()
and PDF_Status() occasionally did not return the correct error codes. Fixed.
Windows
- A password-protected
document can now be opened with Acrobat Reader version 5.0.
- In Shockwave,
when ANY was chosen in the PDF Xtra properties dialog, an error was returned.
Fixed.
Macintosh
- In full-screen
mode, the projector now quits faster.
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New Media, Inc.