Flashpaper Text

I need some help, if possible...
I'm exporting a file from InDesign to PDF, then converting
the PDF in FP to a Flashpaper document... every 10th line of text
or so is really poor quality, like it is aliased or something...
anyone else having an issue with this? Anyone have any
suggestions?

Not sure if you're having the same problem as me, but this is
how I solved it:
In Indesign, print your document using "postscript file" as
the printer. Also, in 'graphics', change fonts to download: subset
and then click save at the bottom.
This should generate a .ps file which should then be
converted into a pdf using Acrobat Distiller. This pdf should
convert to FlashPaper without degrading the text.
Hope that works,
Tom.

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I recently had to uninstall and reinstall FlashPaper 2. When
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horrible. Any ideas? I'm using Adobe Reader 8 at the moment.
Thanks

Okay, figured out my problem. I was creating the PDF from an
original Word document using FlashPaper's PDF creation tool. Bad
move. Once I created the PDF using Acro Pro, everything was back to
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Is there any way to create a static background in a PDF? I mean, a background that is not affected by the scrolls. If u scroll up or down only moves the text and not the background.
Why am I trying to do this "stupid" thing...? Because I'm using a swf FlashPaper in my interactive cd and since I can't customize flashpaper looks, I need to fake 'em. To customize the interface looks I just add the fake buttons I want in a layer above the one where I put the flashpaper, so what u see are my customized btns, but what u click are the flashpaper btns. Now..., I need to see the interactive cd background right behind the flashpaper text, but I cannot because the flashpaper background is not customizable and that's why I'm trying to create a static pdf background that matches my interactive cd background, so u think u see through the flashpaper, but what u really see is just a static pdf background.
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No, PDF doesn't work like that.
Leonard

Document converted with FlashPaper has bad text rendering.

I converted a Korean document to Flash with FlashPaper but its text rendering was bad like the following screenshot.
But it got better when I scrolled a little or zoomed in/out. Like this.
As you see, the text is softer and easier to read.
I don't know how to solve this problem.

Very glad to know I'm not alone, thanks for the reply! Also, looks like the two of us aren't alone either. There's another thread over at Bleeping Computer that has the same issue:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/566588/did-new-windows-updates-and-now-my-fonts-look-bad/
Microsoft knows about the issue, see "Known issues with this security update" here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3013455
Update: Resolution
Microsoft has released a fix in
KB3037639. Interestingly, at the time of posting this, it looks like Microsoft hasn't released the update into the Windows/Microsoft Update stream. So for now, it looks like a manual download/install is required.
Download links are under the "Resolution" section
here for the affected operating systems. Make sure to select the correct download for your Windows edition.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3037639

Full text search in local CD-ROM app

Hi all,
I want to develop a local application deploying in CD-ROM,
and I want to use about 1.000 PDF documents.
I thing that it's a good idea to convert the PDFs to SWFs
using the FlashPaper.
My answer is how can I make a full text search using the
contents of these files. Is it possible?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
We can create a custom tool for you that will enable you to
search text in
ALL your pdf files. That's not a problem.
If this sounds interesting read this
http://hire.flashjester.com
Regards
FlashJester Support Team
e. - [email protected]
w. -
http://www.flashjester.com
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and
"mental illness."

Error in printing? White boxes around text?

Right now I'm experencing a problem with printing in
Flashpaper. In my company we're converting brochures over into
Flashpaper as a test. Everything converts over smoothly until we do
a print test. What we're seeing in our print outputs is any area
that contains text on top of a image you'll get an white box around
the text. Although when you view the flashpaper on the monitor you
don't see that white box around the text. It appears that during
print process the text fields retain a white box and doesn't set it
to be transparent.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? And is there a way
around this?

HI
Did you ever get any clue about this issue? I have the same
problem or worse.
If u know anything at all, please visit my post...
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=64&catid=400&threadid =1250227&enterthread=y
Thanks!

Best way to handle large amount of text

hello everyone
My project involves handling large amount of text.(from
conferences and
reports)
Most of them r in Ms Word. I can turn them into RTF format.
I dont want to use scrolling. I prefer turning pages(next,
previous, last,
contents). which means I need to break them into chunks.
Currently the process is awkward and slow.
I know there wud b lots of people working on similar
projects.
Could anyone tell me an easy way to handle text. Bring them
into cast and
break them.
any ideas would be appreciated
thanx
ahmed

Hacking up a document with lingo will probably loose the rtf
formatting
information.
Here's a bit of code to find the physical position of a given
line of on
screen text (counting returns is not accurate with word
wrapped lines)
This stragety uses charPosToLoc to get actual position for
the text
member's current width and font size
maxHeight = 780 -- arbitrary display height limit
T = member("sourceText").text
repeat with i = 1 to T.line.count
endChar = T.line[1..i].char.count
lineEndlocV = charPosToLoc(member "sourceText",
endChar).locV
if lineEndlocV > maxHeight then -- fount "1 too many"
line
-- extract identified lines "sourceText"
-- perhaps repeat parce with remaining part of "sourceText"
singlePage = T.line[1..i - 1]
member("sourceText").text = T.line[i..99999] -- put remaining
text back
into source text member
If you want to use one of the roundabout ways to display pdf
in
director. There might be some batch pdf production tools that
can create
your pages in pretty scalable pdf format.
I think flashpaper documents can be adapted to director.

PDF to FlashPaper 2

hi all,
I'm trying to build an application over Coldfusion that
implements a conversion from a pdf into a Flashpaper document. The
only way I had found to do that is using FlashpaperConnect.dll that
comes with Contribute 3. My problem is that I need to run
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Is there any library for linux with the same function of
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After more research, it looks like in my FlashPaper (made
from PDF files) the characters are shifted by a consistent amount.
Using the Unicode character set (you can see a reference in
Windows XP by going to the Start Menu, then
Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map), in
which each character is represented by a number, each character is
shifted by this function:
f(x) = 288 - x
I made a custom search box which translates each character
the user's looking for behind the scenes and uses the FlashPaper
API to search for the new, shifted text:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashpaper/2/flashpaper_api/flashpaper_api2. html
An amusing detail is that in trying to support
case-insensitive searches, where if they type "cat" and it also
finds "Cat", the following letters are treated as equivalent in
searching:
[=;
Z=:
Y=9
X=8
W=7
V=6
U=5
T=4
S=3
R=2
Q=1
P=0
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Flashpaper Print Problems..

Hi There!..
Here's the issue...
When printing from a flashpaper file that has been created
from a pdf,
there are anomalous elements that do not print correctly. The
printouts
from my machine and my colleague's machine show different
anomalies,
when printing the same file on the same printer.
One example is vertically aligned text that is white on a
coloured bg
just shows up as a white box.
Is there a definitive way to create the flashpaper from the
pdf that will
prevent this happening? Also, web links in the pdfs do not
retain their link
status, and revert to normal text, is there a way to retain
the links?
A quick look around the web has shown that many people
experience odd
printing behaviours, common comments would be...
"Apparently it depends on how the Adobe PDf document was
created or
how the FlashPaper document was produced from a PDF."
and..
"It seems that every different configuration of computer and
printer gets
a different result in how the document prints."
Anyone know of a preferred process for conversion, or suggest
a way
to modify or process the pdf prior to conversion that will
eliminate these
problems?
Cheers, JPS

Drivers are installed both from Windows installs and from Xerox
http://www.support.xerox.com/support/phaser-7750/downloads/enus.html?operatingSystem=win7x 64&fileLanguage=sv
where Web-based Postscript Driver Installer Windows 7 64 bit is chosen.
Both these drivers have the same problem.
Windows Update didn´t solve the problem.
It´s still a mystery.

FlashPaper not preserving PDF Bookmarks

I want to be able to convert my PDFs (with bookmarks) into
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bookmarks to show up. I had thought FlashPaper 2 had this ability,
but is bookmark preservation a feature of conversion via Microsoft
Office only? Anyway around this?

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Does FlashPaper really work?

I installed the trial version of FlashPaper. Tried printing
80 pages from PageMaker 7.0. After 1/2 hour of working I just gave
up. Then I tried a simple 2 page file from PM 7.0. Same results
after 15 minutes. Then I drag-n-dropped a 2 page PDF into
FlashPaper. 15 minutes later I gave up again. I seen one topic
where the suggested having it on the correct port. Mine is on the
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should I expect?

JDBC Development Team,
This is what my colleague found. Is this true? Please send me an email whether this is true or not.
Thanks!
-Peter
There is one cursor created for each addBatch() call. If a prepared statement is used to insert two rows into a table, two cursors are created. Insert 20 rows, 20 cursors are created. That's bizarre, because if a cached prepared statement is used again, the statement's substitution variables probably won't match the values held by the cached cursors. Which means more cursors are created ....
The sql text from the open cursors looks like:
SELECT FcstVariablePos, Value FROM fe_pdm_theta_default WHER
SELECT FcstVariablePos, Value FROM fe_pdm_theta_default WHER
UPDATE fe_exm_transformation SET Value=:1 WHERE InstanceKey=
UPDATE fe_exm_transformation SET Value=:1 WHERE InstanceKey=
UPDATE fe_exm_hier_lvl_params SET Delta=5.0 WHERE InstanceKe
UPDATE fe_exm_hier_lvl_params SET Delta=0.0 WHERE InstanceKe
No wonder we reach the max_cursors limit so quickly.
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Cannot get Flashpaper to print in Powerpoint 2003

I cannot get Flashpaper printouts from any of the MS Office
applications in Office 2003. This worked until about five days ago.
Now, a box comes up, says "working", and hangs. I have tried
repairing the installation, reinstalling both Macromedia and
Microsoft products but nothing. This product works flawlessly for
me in my office at work but not at home! Any suggestions?

Create a new text file and include the text below
c:
cd "\program files\macromedia\flashpaper 2"
fpdriversetup.exe ?ui
then rename the extension to .bat and run it
It has just worked for me

Target for links in FlashPaper SWF

1) I have created a Flashpaper SWF using MS Word, setting
embedded links to target a new window.
2) The FP SWF is loaded into a Flash document and its
associated HTML page -- all is fine
3) The FP links when clicked on, result in the new URL
loading into the same window replacing my original HTML page
Anyone have any ideas? I am using Flash 8 player.

Unfortunately there's no way to do this directly at the moment although this functionality is planned for a future release.
However, its possible to acheive the same effect by using procedures associated with the Text item type.
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Also see a Body text in custom search results to this forum.

Fonts aren't shown correct in Flashpaper

My company provides a macromedia coldfusion mx7
applicationserver based on linux (Debian Sarge, 3.1). Our
application uses the Adobe Flashpaper for printpreviews. My problem
is, that only one fonttype is generated correctly in this
flashpaper - that's arial - and all the other fonts like Courier
New, Comic Sans, Times new roman, tahoma, Verdana etc. are shown
with the same unidentifyable font (shown font looks similar to
times new roman fonttype).
*)I've tried the technical documentation of coldfusion for
font-configuration at a linux box - configuration was successful -
but fonts didn't work after that procedure. (documentation of
coldfusion provide following link for that:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/)
*)i've added these fonts to the font-management of coldfusion
- but no change
*)i've installed coldfusion mx7 on a windows xp installation,
without a modification of the existing fonttypes - and there all
the fonttypes are printed correctly.
See following link for some screenshots of my problem:
Fonttypes
so my question - how can i check, which fonttypes are
provided for flashpaper?
What have i done wrong - where can i configure these
fonttypes?
Does an other thread exist for this problem?
i would be very happy, when someone could help me with this
problem.
Nice regards, Andreas

quote:
Originally posted by:
ksmith
This is not an issue that I have seen come up before for
Flashpaper. Debian is not a supported or tested platform for
ColdFusion. Perhaps it is just an incompatibility with the OS or
version. Your company should consider working on a supported
platform -
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/productinfo/systemreqs/
I've tried with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 too, because
this os is supported (i haven't written this into my text). But
with this os i have totally same effect.

Captivate 2 and FlashPaper 2

I have converted a PDF doc to an SWF file via FlashPaper 2
and have imported the SWF as an animation into a Captivate 2
project slide. I resize the animation by SHIFT+clicking and
resizing. The output looks great, but if I navigate to the next
slide and then navigate back to the animation slide, the animation
is cut in half. I noticed that the animation properties are the
standard ones set in Flash (ca. 550 x 400?), but I need the
document to appear as 590 x 740. Resizing the SWF file in Flash and
then trying to import it into Captivate was a disaster (FlashPaper
buttons all over the place, and no text), and I'm not fluent enough
in how to use ActiveScript to know how to plug in the following
scripting into the movieclip that I could potentially export as an
SWF:
Using FlashPaper with Macromedia Flash
You can insert a FlashPaper SWF file into a Flash FLA file.
When you export the FLA file to SWF format, the FlashPaper SWF file
is embedded as part of the exported Flash SWF file.
The following code shows how to load a FlashPaper SWF file in
a regular FLA file using the loadFlashPaper() function:
function loadFlashPaper(
path_s, // path of SWF to load
dest_mc, // MC which we should replace with the SWF
width_i, // new size of the dest MC
height_i, // new size of the dest MC
loaded_o) // optional: object to be notified that loading is
complete
var intervalID = 0;
var loadFunc = function()
dest_mc._visible = false;
var fp = dest_mc.getIFlashPaper();
if (!fp)
return;
if (fp.setSize(width_i, height_i) == false)
return;
dest_mc._visible = true;
clearInterval(intervalID);
loaded_o.onLoaded(fp);
intervalID = setInterval(loadFunc, 100);
dest_mc.loadMovie(path_s);
The following code shows how you can use the loadFlashPaper()
function after you’ve embedded a FlashPaper SWF file:
function onLoaded(fp)
// loading is complete, so we can now adjust the current
page, zoom, etc.
// go to page 50.
fp.setCurrentPage(50);
// change magnification to 33%
fp.setCurrentZoom(33);
loadFlashPaper("FlashPaper.swf", theDocMC, theDocMC._width,
theDocMC._height, this);
The fp.setCurrentPage value has been set to 50 and the
fp.setCurrentZoom value has been set to 33. When the FLA file is
exported, page 50 of the embedded FlashPaper SWF file appears
inside the exported SWF file with a magnification of 33 percent.
So what I'm asking is how do I get a 590 x 740 FlashPaper
document to maintain its size within Captivate without it reverting
to the Flash default size?
Thanks,
Andrew

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Just out of interest - have you tried your project using FireFox?
/Michael
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