Comments on: Its time for flash paper 3.0

By: Nick Collins

Nick Collins — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:01:05 +0000

Well, what I kind of speculate will happen is that MARS will end up being a form of FlashPaper 3. So in essence you will print to a mars document, which will be readable in the Acrobat reader, but if they add an AS3 API for reading MARS documents, they could easily parse the XML, use it to load the images, fonts, etc, and create the document from it within the viewer “shell” of your choice within your Flash/Flex/AIR application.

By: Campbell

Campbell — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:15:01 +0000

Hey Andrew, Yep and I think its actually really good! except the viewer isnt open to us to use on our own systems, and only with PDF’s (although more formats coming soon it says).

Its very early days so I hope to see it open up to some sort of API.

But as it stands it not really “for this new breed of app” I mention above, unless Adobe will lock this down and only use it for buzzword?

By: Andrew Shebanow

Andrew Shebanow — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:27:14 +0000

Have you seen SHARE? Its flash previewer basically does everything FlashPaper’s viewer did, and more:

http://share.adobe.com

By: Campbell

Campbell — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:12:43 +0000

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By: Andrew Field

Andrew Field — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:02:41 +0000

Have to agree – currently Adobe are missing a real trick. Flashpaper wasn’t a replacement for .pdf, but rather a great extension. Being able to view documents inline, quickly and effectively was brilliant – such a shame Adobe have killed it off.