Actuall, JD, ColdFusion dynamically generates both PDF and FlashPaper SWF output for CF reports and CFDOCUMENT (and reports also outputs Excel and RTF, etc as well).
While you are correct that the "FlashPaper" product used a printer-driver technology, we chose a different route that yields super-high quality fonts, etc natively as a Flex app would, directly aseembling the documents ourselves, without using the proiblematic "printer driver" approach. The FlashPaper 2 output you get as a result (espcially with the latest FlashPlayer 9 player) is very, very, good and very lightweight. -Damon >Macromedia FlashPaper was a printer driver which could turn documents >(including PDF) to SWF. The document would display in a Macromedia shell >SWF with viewing chrome. I haven't heard of any news with FlashPaper >since the Adobe acquisition. > >For forms, though, Adobe Reader is much stronger. FlashPaper treats >something as a document, but Acrobat offers significant forms technology. > >One wrinkle here is that Adobe Reader 8.0, announced last week and in >public release this autumn, can archive filled forms to local storage. >Previous versions of Reader could let you fill and submit forms for >remote storage, but the 8.0 client adds local archiving. > > > >> Are there any known stats for percent users with Adobe Reader vs >> MacrAdobe Flash installed ? > >Adobe Flash Player is by far the world's most widely-deployed >software... the new Flash Player 9 is looking to have been adopted by >about 50% of internet consumers within three months of its release, >which is almost an incomprehensible rate of adoption. >http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=498 > >While Macromedia commissioned NPD consumer audits and did >version-tracking, Adobe did not, and so we don't have good >version-to-version stats for Adobe Reader yet. Reader and Acrobat have >had a bit more corporate acceptance than Player has had, though... both >are de facto standards in the world today. > > >Casey Dougall wrote: > > Omniture Reported Internet Averages... > >Do you have a link to source info here? I'd like to check their >methodology, see what they were actually testing, thanks. > > > >Brad Wood wrote: > > The size of the PDF viewer plugin has bothered me in the past. To > > me a viewer should be lightweight and simple. > >That's true. But Adobe Reader is actually more of a collaboration client >than it is a simple document viewer. Here's the 7.0 Reader FAQ and >feature list: >http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrfaq.html >http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html > >Here's info on how the free Reader compares with the full Acrobat >software for document creation: >http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html > > >jd > > > > > >-- >John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA >Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd >Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna >Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ >Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:255688 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
