RE: RSS inside PDF

I want to publish a PDF e-book and on some of the pages I would like to
display the latest 10 documents from an external RSS feed. 

----PDF page----
Static text
Static text
Static text

RSS feed
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3...
---endpage----
 
 If a reader clicks on the link, I would like to open the browser.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Kearney [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS inside PDF



Do you want to render the RSS file into the PDF when you create the PDF?  Or
do you want to have the PDF viewer 'automatigically' update it's contents
from an RSS document when viewed at some later point?  The former is
certainly do-able following Don's suggestion.  The latter, I'm not sure it's
possible nor would I entertain doing it even if it was.  Imagine the
security risks of letting code from an external source be driven into a PDF
viewer.  I'd hope the PDF viewer would 'take steps' to secure the run-time
environment but I wouldn't bet any of my own money on it working properly.

What are you trying to do?  There may be more than one way to skin the cat.

-Bill Kearney

From: "Don Parsons" <dparsons62-/[email protected]>
> I can think of at least one option... PHP has a PDF
> module that allows you to dynamically create PDF
> files.

> --- "W. Frederick Zimmerman, Tech Fun Books"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anyone know how to display an RSS feed inside a PDF
> > document? I suspect this
> > can be accomplished using JavaScript, but no idea on
> > the details.



 
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