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FlashPaper
View on Wikipedia| Macromedia FlashPaper | |
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| Developers | Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia and Blue Pacific Software) |
| Final release | 2.02.2302.0
/ October 19, 2005 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Multimedia Content Creator |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
FlashPaper (originally known as Flash Printer) was a software application developed by Blue Pacific Software before its acquisition by Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe Systems.[1] Its functional design mimics Adobe Acrobat Distiller to behave as a virtual printer. Documents printed to FlashPaper can be printed as Adobe Flash or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.[2] Macromedia first incorporated FlashPaper with version 2 of their Contribute HTML editor.[3] For a time in the mid-2000s, it was more accessible than Adobe's own Acrobat Reader for viewing documents on the web.[4]
Adobe announced it was discontinuing development of FlashPaper on September 4, 2008. The company states that "the demand [for FlashPaper] has continually declined to where it is no longer economically viable for Adobe to continue development support for FlashPaper" but noted that it would continue selling and supporting the existing version of FlashPaper.[5] It was last included in Macromedia Studio 8,[6] and was available for a time as a standalone product from Adobe.[5] FlashPaper files can be also generated by ColdFusion web applications.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Staff writer (November 29, 2018). "FlashPaper". Computer Sweden (in Swedish). IDG Publications. Archived from the original on June 19, 2025.
- ^ Simone, Luisa (September 16, 2003). "Macromedia Contributes Even More". PC Magazine. Vol. 22, no. 16. Ziff-Davis. p. 36. ProQuest 203810903. Archived from the original on September 8, 2003.
- ^ Dean, Damon; Andy Cowitt (2005). Macromedia Studio 8 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies. Wiley. pp. 563–565. ISBN 9780764596902 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ Meadhra, Michael (2006). How to Do Everything with Dreamweaver 8. McGraw-Hill/Osborne. pp. 343–344. ISBN 9780072262384 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Butcher, Mike (September 4, 2008). "Document startups in chaos as Adobe's Flashpaper discontinues". Tech Crunch. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
- ^ McFarland, David Sawyer (2006). Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. p. 461. ISBN 9780596100568 – via Google Books.
- ^ Nicholson, Sean R.; Kristin F. Henry (2006). Using Macromedia Studio 8 (Special ed.). Que. pp. 382–383. ISBN 9780789733856 – via Google Books.
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