RichL wrote: > I've got to provide a downloadable and printable form to fill in. > I am wondering which route to go down between flashpaper and pdf. > Is there any generally accepted preference about at the moment?
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:255514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
