Ben Forta

6 responses to “Sharp Using FlashPaper”

1. 

   Brad Fetter

   2004-11-29

   Ben,
   Does Macromedia provide a tool to covert PDFs to Flashpaper?

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2. 

   Andrei Oprea

   2004-11-30

   As far as I know, you can convert anything to Flash Paper by using the Flash Paper printer driver in any application. Just print to the Flash Paper printer

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   Joseph

   2004-12-15

   I know I should read up on it, but I like the source better… Does FlashPaper allow for conversions on the fly?
   Example: Pulling information from a just completed web form to populate a fully formatted W-2 (love the gov’ment).
   Thanks.

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4. 

   Ben Forta

   2004-12-21

   Joseph, sure, in Blackstone. 😉

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5. 

   Dennis

   2004-12-21

   Unfortunately this example also highlights the main weakness with Flashpaper – readability. On a 1024 x 768 resultion screen on a 17"" monitor the text is barely readable. There is a large white border around the text, and a huge amount of html page available space on the right, yet the text is compressed into a fraction of the available space. It is possible to zoom in and then drag the text to the right and it is fine. However the site visitor shouldn’t be required to do that (and in most cases won’t bother, they’ll just move on).
   Should the default for Flash Paper be to zoom in to remove white space in the borders and to expand to a reasonable text size if the page space is available? I know all these things are adjustable by the web designer but often just the default is used and nearly every example of the ‘default’ setting that I have seen has resulted in tiny barely readable text (OK I admit I’m over 40 but my eyesight isn’t that bad).

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6. 

   Greg Fox

   2007-07-27

   We’re using flashpaper embedded within a flash app wrapper. Flashpaper rocks. You can check out a demo of what we were able to do at http://www.printrelay.com in the showcase section.

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