Comments on: FlashPaper in 2008: Dead or Alive?

By: Koert van Kleef

Koert van Kleef — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:30:28 +0000

Thanks Bjoern Berntsson!
Indeed, looks good… and was to be expected that development would go in this direction. Still have to look into it though, what I need is the ability that FlashPaper had to use a word document’s document structure to automatically generate an interactive menu/index on the left.

By: Bjoern Berntsson

Bjoern Berntsson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:06:40 +0000

FlexPaper was relased not too long ago, it’s a new open source flash based viewer equivalent to Flash Paper. Looks very promising:

http://www.devaldi.com/?page_id=260

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:15:18 +0000

It’s ridiculous that Adobe is not providing an alternative to FlashPaper. It may not be a high-demand item, but it is a critical utility for a small subset of developers who want to integrate Adobe technologies. FlashPaper should have been rolled into Acrobat Pro as a standard export option.

The fact that these options are missing just makes me want to invest in an opensource DHTML solution for rich media and document publishing, and purge all Adobe technologies from my projects and my clients’ projects.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0000

It is completely *stupid* for Adobe to drop development of FlashPaper. I am a contactor for an extremely large communcations company (read ‘former telephone monopoly I can’t name’) and its training department is relies on FlashPaper. We are now preparing to update everything to AS3 and this huge company’s corporate purchase of an AS3 FlashPaper alone would justify FlashPaper AS3.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:03:18 +0000

Please, don’t kill Flash Paper!!! Update it to work on Vista and Macs. I have used Flash Paper extensively, as stand alone documents on web sites, embedded in Flash applications and embedded in Director. It is a great utility that can not be replaced by Adobe reader/acrobat.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:07 +0000

I still use it, please update your Flash Paper Component to use actionscript 3!

By: Angus Grogan

Angus Grogan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:20:18 +0000

Give me Flashpaper or give me death!!!!!!!!

By: Mike Crone

Mike Crone — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:23:24 +0000

My total agreement over the stupidity of Adobe. I also have developed CMSs for clients that rely on the Flashpaper 2 plugin for Flash. Many, many development hours wasted.

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:44:18 +0000

Even crazier, Adobe Connect “Pro” lacks the ability to upload *Adobe* PDF files; they must be converted to SWF. Connect thus recommends the use of Flash paper, a discontinued software that is not even in the CS3 suite I have for Mac and PC.

Again, I cannot add an Adobe file format into an Adobe application, gotta love that integration, and have to resort to some third party shareware http://print2flash.com

Madness, madness, madness.

By: cpetrou

cpetrou — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:23:15 +0000

It is official, FlashPaper is DEAD!

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/eod_faq/

I wonder if this has anything to do with the FlashPaper vs. PDF controversy back in the Macromedia vs. Adobe days? Perhaps Macromedia made a deal with Adobe… We will kill Adobe GoLive in favor of Macromedia Dreamweaver, if Macromedia kills FlashPaper in favor of Acrobat PDF.

… conspiracies …