[Xerte] Flash Paper

[Fred Riley]

Back in January Ian Calder (below) posted an announcement that Adobe
were killing off Flash Paper. Whilst the ostensible reason was lack of
demand, those of a more cynical bent might think that it was to remove
competition to Acrobat. Whatever the reason, it's going to cause
problems in the long term for those (few?) of us using Flash Paper-ed
docs in Xerte, as currently Flash doesn't support PDF or DOC natively -
you have to put in a link to an external file and hope that the end-user
has the appropriate display software. Unfortunately, in a current Xerte
template (www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_298) we have to display
Word docs which have been SWF'd by Flash Paper - there is no other
current option.

So I'm wondering if any on here have heard if Adobe will be building in
PDF/DOC support for Flash in the future? I'm concerned about the
long-term fate of applications we build based on this template, as
although FP2 remains on sale it'll eventually be withdrawn and/or will
fail to work with later versions of MS Office or Windows. This is
perhaps an open-ended question more fitted to a general Adobe discussion
list but they're just so damned busy ;-\

Cheers

Fred

Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Calder, Ian
> Sent: 21 January 2009 09:31
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Flash Paper
> 
> Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Flash paper 
> will no longer be supported by Adobe and this may have 
> implications for future support if you are planning on 
> including these formats?
> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/eod_faq/