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

[Austin Govella]

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,
-- 
Austin Govella
Grafofini: the web team 
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