[Xerte] Flash Paper

Tue Mar 23 22:49:15 GMT 2010

Not sure why this isn't working for you but both the free and the pro
version print2flash files work fine for me with the flashpaper page type as
an example see the last page of this LO
http://xerte4.techdis.palepurple.co.uk/play.php?template_id=241 

Im guessing but make sure your filenames doesn't have any spaces or special
characters and use the flashpaper page.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Snowball
Sent: 23 March 2010 11:31
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Flash Paper

Went to buy Flash Paper from Adobe and can confirm that is is not available
or at least not available easily. You can download the 30 day trial all fine
but it would appear you cannot buy the product.   The commercial alternate,
for about the same price, is  Print2flash which seems as good if not better.
However importing a Print2flash swf in to Xerte  as previously reported does
not work at all  -> nothing happens (as a swf or a Flashpaper page
template).  There is some Action-script2  on the Print2Flash web site which
claims will embed a Print2flash swf in an other hosting swf eg: Xerte. a bit
beyond me to implement.

However as we are trying to use page templates with a little bit (very
simple) of code if required we have tested and are happy to use the
following work around.

Convert to PDF via Openoffice or Office 2007.  Convert to swf using open
source  "SWFTools" ensuring the options on "edit tab" are set to "no viewer"
and "insert stop after each frame" is selected. Note if you have a
PowerPoint you can convert directly to SWF - just import into Open-office
impress and then export as swf.

Input into Xerte using "Text Flash SWF.xcp".  IF the swf is multi page - add
the interactivity property and enable the controller if multi paged. ( you
may need to adjust the movie size property) .

To get the full screen, zoom and printing capability of flash paper we have
a button that opens the original PDF in a reader in a new browser tab -> not
unlike flash-paper.

In summary should the Flashpaper page template (or online toolkit) be
augmented with a SWF tools alternate that matches as far as possible Flash
paper capablities>?

Peter Snowball
Dept Of Economic Development
Tasmania

On 2/02/2010 9:00 PM, Johnathan Kemp wrote: 

Hello Peter,

Nice to see people trying out the page wizards.

Sorry about the loss of the page advance when displaying text to the left or
right of flashpaper in the flash paper text wizard.

There are some developments taking place at present to improve how Xerte
handles page wizards, and these necessitate a more thorough overhaul of the
wizards so that each wizard includes the swf files that it uses. So I will
update the current published flash paper text wizard to fix the problem you
identified when I am able to complete my testing of the new developments in
Xerte.

In the meantime I have attached a fixed version of the flash paper text
wizard that you can use in the interim, just drop it into the wizards folder
of your Xerte installation to replace the current jk Flash Paper Text.xcp
file.

The page wizards are all based on the code form the pageTemplates project
template and use the same swfs, so any changes that require modifications to
the swf will have to be undertaken by whoever created the swf.

The wizards all work in the standard interface for xerte. I don't know if
there is a way of enabling the maximise window option whilst retaining the
standard interface in Xerte, I have not added anything to the page wizards
to disable the maximise button. If the original page Template project
template pages will work maximised then I would expect the page wizards to
do so also.

Kind regards

Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp
ICT Development Coordinator
Connexions Staffordshire
 <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> www.cxstaffs.co.uk
01785 355714

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From: Peter Snowball [mailto:southman at internode.on.net] 
Sent: 30 January 2010 11:31
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Flash Paper

I have been testing the Flash Paper page wizards within Exerte desktop
version as I have quite a large number of PDFs of presentations etc  I want
to include them with some brief text etc.  I have encountered a couple of
issues.

*	The Flash paper wizard works as expected but the flash paper with
text wizard hides the page advance requiring 2 mouse clicks to advance the
slides. (See attached wink SWF).  I have tried fiddling with the re size
script but get unexpected results if I alter the size for when text is
included. 

*	Also the full screen option of the player appears disabled which
keeps the flash paper SWF at its correct size. However if you advance to
another frame and select full screen and then go back to the flash paper
frame you get unexpected results.  Fortunately it is easy to recover but I
was wondering if it is possible to disable the display size selection from
the player, which I think would over come this issue and also may help with
similar issues I have encountered with Ispring. 

Peter Snowball
Dept Of Economic Development
Tasmania

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