# External Reference of PPT or PDF

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-reference-of-ppt-or-pdf/266340>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 18, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-reference-of-ppt-or-pdf/266340 "2008-07-18T14:29:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![alanmace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@alanmace](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alanmace)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-reference-of-ppt-or-pdf/266340/1 "2008-07-18T14:29:16Z")

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I’m working on a project for a client who wants to embed a 37 page Power Point presentation in a Flash application. Based on past history, I am 100% certain that this client is going to be making changes to this down to the last minute (adding pages, changing copy, removing pages, etc.) so I thought that it would be best to externally reference the whole thing if possible. I was further thinking that the easiest thing to do would be to just export the whole presentation as a PDF and use that. So I’m wondering if anyone knows of a component of some sort that we could purchase that would allow viewing a PDF internally inside an interface, kind of like how you can preview books on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)?

I know that we can go out and grab the PDF using code like this:  
ActionScript Code:  
[LEFT][COLOR=#0000FF]getURL[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]([/COLOR][COLOR=#FF0000]“myFolder/myPDF.pdf”[/COLOR], [COLOR=#FF0000]"\_blank"[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000])[/COLOR];  
[/LEFT]

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	  		  		  		 		 			But what we'd prefer is to keep it internal if at all possible. Please let me know if you know of anything like this.

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