FlashPaper (originally known as ''Flash Printer'') was a

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developed by Blue Pacific Software before its acquisition by

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, which was later acquired by

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. Its functional design mimics Adobe Acrobat Distiller to behave as a

virtual printer In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer. When a document is "printed" by a virtual printer, instead of phys ...

. Documents printed to FlashPaper can be printed as

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or Adobe

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(PDF) files. Adobe announced it was discontinuing development of FlashPaper on September 4, 2008. The company states that "the demand

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has 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

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8, and was available for a time as a standalone product from Adobe. FlashPaper files can be also generated by

ColdFusion Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995. (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CF ...

web applications.

References

External links

Adobe FlashPaper

Flashpaper Support Center
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