FlashPaper (originally known as ''Flash Printer'') was a software application developed by Blue Pacific Software before its acquisition by Macromedia, which was later acquired by

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. Its functional design mimics Adobe Acrobat Distiller to behave as a virtual printer. Documents printed to FlashPaper can be printed as Adobe Flash or Adobe

Portable Document Format Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating syste ...

(PDF) files. Adobe announced it was discontinuing development of FlashPaper on September 4, 2008. The company states that "the demand or FlashPaperhas continually declined to where it is no longer economically viable for Adobe to continue development support for FlashPaper" but noted that it would continue selling and supporting the existing version of FlashPaper. It was last included in Macromedia Studio 8, and was available for a time as a standalone product from Adobe. FlashPaper files can be also generated by ColdFusion web applications.

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Adobe FlashPaper

Flashpaper Support Center
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