[Sigia-l] Macromedia Flashpaper [was: Acrobat reader ?]

[David Mendels]

Hello,

If you are interested in reletive saturation of Flash player, by version, vs
Acrobat, visit here for a study by NPD:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/ 

HTH,
David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Austin Govella
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:18 AM
> To: Gray, Laurie
> Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Macromedia Flahpaper [was: Acrobat reader ?]
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 Gray, Laurie wrote:
> > Does anyone know/have a resource that can tell us what the most 
> > commonly-used Acrobat Reader version is? We have a 
> developer who wants 
> > to scope a project with 6.0 - we want to make sure we play to the 
> > largest crowd.
> 
> Laurie:
> 
> You might consider using Macromedia Flashpaper in place of Acrobat:
> * http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashpaper/
> 
> Flaspaper works just like Acrobat, except it uses the Flash 
> plug-in to display the document.
> 
> I'm testing it now at the University of Houston (where 
> faculty love huge PDF files). It opens faster in the browser, 
> doesn't have the hang time Acrobat does, and hasn't crashed 
> my browser once (as Acrobat is wont to do).
> 
> And theoretically, Flash has better market saturation than 
> Acrobar (in the high 90s?).
> 
> Just a thought,
> --