Using FlashPaper to Create PDFs
Although there are many similarities between FlashPaper and PDF formatsboth are designed to display documents faithful to their original formatthey're also quite different. PDF has a number of document review and security features that FlashPaper doesn't have. Likewise, FlashPaper is much more Web-centric with its almost instantaneous loading and ability to be embedded in the page. The PDF format has also been around much longer than that of FlashPaper, and many organizations use it a great deal.One unexpected advantage of FlashPaper 2 in Windows is the capability to save a converted file in PDF format. Although the Adobe Reader software is in fairly widespread use, the capability to create PDFs is less universal. Through FlashPaper, PDF documents can be created with or without an outline. In addition, a variety of security options can be imposed. For example, the document can selectively be password-protected against printing while allowing it to be read.Note
Macintosh OS X users can already save any file as a PDF, so the rest of this lesson is for Windows users only.In this procedure, you'll create a new PDF version of the Financial Report document previously converted to FlashPaper, and add a link to it through Contribute.
