This topic opens a can of worms... AFAIK FlashPaper is essentially a virtual printer, and the same as Print2Flash (the company behind P2F is the same one that invented FlashPaper and sold it to Macromedia). I'm not sure which version of P2F you used but again AFAIK it will queue printjobs just fine - it 'prints' to a file after all, just like a normal printer would to paper. Both apps wrap the SWFs into a viewer which was not ideal for my requirements - it may be for yours. How are you using the SWFs? What formats do you need to ingest?
Have you considered converting to images? That's what I'm doing now. Ok, you lose some of the vector niceness but at least the output format is something that can be wrapped into a nice custom SWF viewer, or delivered directly as images. I should be able to show you some examples in a few weeks when this project nears its end. The backend is all CF9 but with various other tools alongside. If you do want to go down the P2F route then feel free to contact me off list. I've hired Blue Pacific (the company behind P2F) to build me custom P2F version which can output single SWFs (one SWF per document page) as well as images. Maybe it'll fit your needs. However it sounds that you want to scale larger than that, so a virtual printer using Office to print from may not be great. I also tested CF9s capabilities in this area and was less than impressed - PPT to PDF conversion results were not very good at all. same goes for OpenOffice. You may need to check out tools such as Aspose to do your conversion. Be warned, every conversion tool I have come across has some downsides, but Aspose seems to have the least (its price is one of them though :)... Cheers Stefan On 2 Nov 2009, at 21:05, Brian Peddle wrote: > > Does the output of FlashPaper in Coldfusion end up using the Print > driver? I need to create a service to accept a word doc or pdf and > have > it converted to a swf. It needs to be able to handle decent load so > trying to figure out if it will > create a new thread and handle multiple requests at once or will it > queue up the conversion. > > Scribd would have been a great choice but we need to store the SWF on > our servers based on requirements. Print2Flash can only handle 1 > request at a time and it can't queue. > > I am also open to other solutions I may not know about it if CF can't > handle it. > > Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327928 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
