embed PDF inside Flex App

How to 开发者_运维知识库embed PDF files into Flex App? Do I really need to transfer them to swf files first?

This was surprisingly more complicated than it should have been (considering they are both Adobe products).

You don't need to convert the pdfs to swf files.

This page has practically all the details you need on how to do this http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=PDF_1.html

You need to keep in mind that the client machine has to be PDF capable (i.e. have Adobe Reader installed). You will also need Acrobat Pro (or whatever they call it now) to do the more in-depth PDF scripting (javascript-in-pdf stuff).

To add to this (because I misread the question), to open a PDF file in Flex, you have two options. The first is, as you said, to convert the file to a swf or other format. The other is to open it using the user's PDF reader. Calling navigateToURL(new URLRequest('<http-link-to-pdf-file>' ) ); should do it (assuming the user has a pdf reader installed).