[Xerte] Re: Flash Paper

[Harding, Julie]

Hello Fred and Julian
Thank you both for your replies and I have been researching FlashPlayer and have just discovered that Print2flash works as suggested by Julian. www.print2flash.com. There is an option to download a free 32bit version and I have just this minute successfully converted a word document to a swf file and it works fine using the Media Flash Paper option in Xerte. Haven't tried powerpoint etc yet but am very happy that I can now just have 1 Xerte page with an onscreen scrollable word file :-) It doesn't appear in a small screen as the JISC guide suggests but takes over the whole page with plenty of resize options so even better.
Thanks
Hope this is useful
Julie

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-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
Sent: 06 June 2011 13:38
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Flash Paper

> I am trying to show a word document in a learning object. Rather than
> just use a hyperlink I am trying to add it as a Flash Paper. Does it
> not work with a Word.doc or should I convert it to another format
> first?

I ran into this problem in a Toolkits app from a couple of years back (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_298), where I needed to display example pages from template documents. Because Flash can't handle DOC or PDF (and I'd be interested to hear the Adobe word as to why bloody not, seeing as PDF is an Adobe format ;-\), I had to convert DOCs to SWF via Flash Paper (see section G for an example). Because Adobe has, with its characteristic attitude to its customers, killed off Flash Paper, I don't know what future options there will be for displaying docs in Flash apps, including Xerte.

In the meantime, AFAIK, you've no option but to use Flash Paper, if you can get your mitts on a licence. Not very helpful, I know - sorry :(

Cheers

Fred

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