[Xerte] Flash Paper

[Fred Riley]

> Depends what you want to do

Present electronic documents in a Xerte template, as in the quoted
example. JPEGs of any form fail for a number of reasons, particularly
with multi-page documents. This has been tried and rejected. 

> I went looking for a PDF to JPEG php class earlier, found one 
> that supports the flipbook xml format - so you could just 
> script something?

Definitely not an option. If a successor to Flash Paper that allows DOC
-> SWF conversion, or DOC/PDF support in the Flash development
environment, doesn't appear then the long-term viability of our projects
is in jeopardy. 

Cheers

Fred

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 20 April 2009 17:13
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Flash Paper
> 
> 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 eventually be withdrawn and/or will fail to work with later 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/
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