Adobe Flashpaper is Toast
September 5th, 2008 by BenWhat is Adobe Flash Paper you ask? Yeah, I don’t know exactly either but as of yesterday Adobe has decided to discontinue the product.
Adobe will continue to sell and support the current FlashPaper 2 version, but won’t be updating the technology to support Microsoft Windows Vista and IE7, which will make it virtually worthless.
If you’re dying to dig deeper, you can read more here.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I saw this coming after Matt posted about the CS 3.3 upgrade earlier this year.
http://www.flashcharlotte.com/2008/06/creative-suite-33-available-now/
Since you can embed SWFs in PDFs now, there’s no need for Flash Paper.
September 12th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Flashpaper was Macromedia’s answer to Adobe Acrobat. It was sort of a simple version of Acrobat writer. I liked it better than Acrobat (simpler, faster, more stable), you could easily convert any printed document to an SWF or PDF.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Although I didnt’ use it much, I did enjoy the little bit that I was able to play with it. The idea of being able to embed a FlashPaper SWF in another Flash movie was nice for learning applications. You can’t do that with a PDF.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I guess it was one of those things destined to die with the merger…
September 15th, 2008 at 5:49 am
one less reason to like Adobe…
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 am
This was the best decision which was taken by ADOBE
hahahah
i am not joking…
its just my personal benefit…