Office 2004, FlashPaper & Leopard

FlashPaper worked great in Tiger. Leopard is running smooth
with the exception of printing from OFfice 2004. The driver shows
up in the printer list without problem, but as soon as I select it
in print dialog box the application closes, both Word and Excel.
I've done all the usual fix stuff and re-installed contribute 3 and
the 3.11 update. No change. Can't find much support for
FlashPaper/Mac on the Adobe site. Any ideas on a fix, or some other
way to print an Excel doc as a .swf?

Thanks in advance. JohnOffice 2004, FlashPaper %26amp; Leopard
I think the difficulty is that FlashPaper driver in probably
not compatible with the Intel Macs. The driver in the printers
folder, main library, lists it as Plug-in (PowerPC). I can't find
an update or replacement for the Intel version. I can't explain why
it seemed to work fine under Tiger??Office 2004, FlashPaper %26amp; Leopard
I have the same issue. After installing Leopard Flashpaper
had disappeared as a printer and I had to re-detect it. Trying to
print from any Office application using Flashpapaer crashes the
application. I do NOT think this is an Intel Mac problem per se, as
FP was quite happy running within Tiger 10.4.10 on my Intel-based
Mac Mini. I spotted you also have a post on the Mac Forums (no
replies yet).



My workaround at the moment is to fire up an XP Bootcamp or
Parallels session and create the swf from the relevant Office app
in that environment. If you don't have that setup and you need
something urgently try www.scribd.com
UPDATE: Flashpaper works fine in Leopard when usining
non-Office apps, such as printing a PDF to SWY using Preview. Looks
like we have Microsoft firmly in the loop on this one and it
therefore may take a wee while to resolve it .........
MacChap, thanks a million for the reply. I felt like I was
lost in the Adobe wasteland.

Here's what happens when I try to use FP in Preview. I can
save my Excel file as a PDF, then open it in Preview easily. When I
try to print Flashpaper from Preview, I get the print dialog box,
hit Print, and a millisecond flash of the Save box comes and
disappears, the printer icon appears in the Dock for 3-4 seconds
and then closes. No file is produced???

I looked at the scrid site, looks like a great idea, but I
can't figure out how to download my document as a swf from their
site, or how to embed that file in my web page by copying their
embed code.

I really appreciate your help with this, its been driving me
nuts since I updated to Leopard.

John
Hi John



You are right - I've tried searching for the swf doc that I
thought had printed and it doesn't exist. I then opened the
FlashPaper printer queue and dragged a PDF onto it ... very briefly
an error message appeared: 'set effective user id failed' There's
also another occasional error: 'PDETest .... and a bit more' but it
flashes so quickly I haven't been able to capture it all yet. I'll
do some more investigating and post my findings.



With Scribd you basically upload a document to their servers,
which gets converted to swf. You mark this doc as 'private' so it
doesn't get published to the world at large, then go into the My
Docs section where there is an advanced EMBED option that will give
you the necessary code to embed it on any web page. The created SWF
is branded Scribd with a link back to them though. I guess you
might be able to use a flash grabber such as available at
www.browsertools.net to pull the file down to use directly on your
own server.



Now, how much Adobe approve of all that use of Flashpaper I
don't know ....



Chris
For whatever reason, Adobe does not seem to be interested in
supporting Flashpaper for Mac. I own Flash CS3, and would be glad
to run it through there if I could end up with an interactive file
like that made by FP. I can easily generate a swf file, but it
might as well be a jpg or png (only in a smaller file size). At
least with FL you could open it in another page, zoom it, print,
etc. There is a app called Print2Flash at
http://print2flash.com/index.php,
that seems to do the trick, but is Windows only.

Thanks again. John
I wondered if this was some form of permission issue, having
received the effective user id error. I therefore logged in as root
and tried printing but still receive the same errors. Haven't yet
tried verifying/repairing disk permissions, but I doubt it's that
...
I did the permissions thing = no help.



Scribd will do the trick and let me download a FP file, but
their system gets really clogged up. I uploaded a one page pdf last
night and it took over eight hours for it to show up in converted
form. Great idea, execution needs some work.



Wonder what Adobe plans to put in the place of Flashpaper?
There seems to be a need to something like this, or it needs to be
built in the the Flash app itself.