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WilliamDSpherexx
WilliamDSpherexx
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August 2, 2017
Question

Statusbar comes back after awhile when showing PDFs in Adobe Air (& Animate CC) AS3

  • August 2, 2017
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I'm still searching for a proper answer from any of the forums: (Links below) and I'll close all three when solution is discovered.  (more detail in those posts)

Animate CC Post

Acrobate Reader Post

Regardless of settings in Adobe Reader (including "read-only setting) AND adding #scrollbar=0&toolbar=0&statusbar=0&messages=0&navpanes=0 to the PDF's URL this little widget shows up on my application...After some time.... I'd be fine with it if it didn't allow the user to print or go to the internet (by blicking the acrobat logo then the "?") but I use Adobe Animate to create locked down touch screen kiosks and allowing the user to browse the net is not acceptable.

Hoping somebody out there has run into this.    I understand that there are ways to enable/dissable this and THEY WORK... but somehow after awhile its like the Air application forgets to give acrobat the #statusbar=0 part of the url.  

I have tried building with air 23, 25, 26.

Here is my flash file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/czk0m0jj81aznqy/PDFIssue.fla?dl=1

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A
ASWC
Inspiring
August 2, 2017

Just to make sure, you are aware that even if this problem is fixed the user would still be able to see the link and go to that online location to print the PDF? In other words that little popup only makes it easier to do all that but not having that popup won't prevent it anyway.

WilliamDSpherexx
WilliamDSpherexxAuthor
Known Participant
August 2, 2017

Not sure I follow on "see the link"    My goal is to NOT have a way for a user of the locked down Kiosk to launch a web browser.

because of that status bar..... a web browser can be launched:   clicking the Acrobat logo on that status bar... then clicking the ? mark.   takes you to Adobe website in systems default browser.

I'd love to keep people from printing as well but not because i'm trying to keep the PDF secret... I just don't want someone printing 1000 pages on some random network printer

A
ASWC
Inspiring
August 2, 2017

What I mean is anyone can see the incoming link using a network tracker like findler for example. The link is exposed and the user can follow it, see the pdf online and print as many pages as he wants. Just trying to understand that this is not what you are trying to prevent but more like a design requirement.

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