Understanding FlashPaper
The key to grasping FlashPaper's capabilities is to think of it as a printer that outputs Flash documents instead of paper. On the plus side, you can create a viewable representation of any file you can print; creating .swf files is now just as easy as choosing a different printer driver when printing. The "FlashPaper as printer" concept also implies a limitation, however: You can't convert an animated GIF to FlashPaper and expect it to animateyou'll see only the frame that would be printed.To view Flash documents, you need Flash Player 6 or higher. The search functionality requires Flash Player 7 or greater.Each Flash document is displayed within a consistent user interface, dominated by the toolbar atop the viewer. The toolbar includes the following controls by default:Pan.
Grabs and moves the Flash document within the viewer.Select.
Highlights text for copying to the Clipboard. Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+C on Windows and Command+C on Macintosh) must be used to copy. Only text is copied, even if an image is selected.Search.
Finds the first occurrence of an entered word or phrase; if found, the term is highlighted. Click the magnifying glass icon to locate the next instance of the search term.Zoom.
Controls the magnification of the document window. Although the Zoom slider goes from 25% to 250%, you can enter any value from 10% to 999% in the adjacent Zoom field.Fit in Viewer.
Sets the zoom so an entire page is displayed in the viewer.Fit Width.
Changes the magnification to show the document's full width in the viewer.Page Navigation.
Moves the view of the document from one page to another and displays the total number of pages. Enter a value in the navigation field and press Enter (Return) to go directly to the specified page, or click the Next and Previous buttons to move one page at a time.Print.
Sends the current Flash document to the system print utility.Open in New Browser.
Displays just the Flash document in a new browser window.