Flash Player + Adobe Reader = not one plug-in

Posted Dec 9th 2005 1:18PM by Mike Schleifstein
Filed under: Macromedia, Innovation, Merger, Ideas, Bugs, WIN Business, Flash 8, Flash Player 8, Flash Paper 2

Knee jerk reaction correction time... yes I did have a knee jerk reaction to what I thought would be a really cool thing. A combo Flash player and Adobe reader plugin and application would hopefully mean a possible slimmer (read more memory efficient) Reader and a more robust Player... but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Numerous corrections have been flowing out of the former Macromedia heavy-weights so I thought I should write up a quick oops post to help move us forward.

Let's look at this from another angle. Would you prefer a combo app? Maybe an Apple Preview Application mixed with the Flash player in a Flash Paper way... or how about we take some Acrobat functionality and bundle it into Actionscript. I would love to dynamically edit and create PDFs on the fly (for free... I paid a few hundred for the app already, sorry Derek) then we could add a print to PDF functionality to all Flash-based apps that would mimic that great Apple print function... What do you think?

PS: sorry mike, my bad...

Reader Comments

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1. >PS: sorry mike, my bad...

np. It wasnt your fault, it was ours. The information we had on the site was not clear enough.

Thanks for the post clarifying everything.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

Posted at 2:30PM on Dec 9th 2005 by mike chambers

2. I think it would be a good idea to be able to have some flash in PDFs when viewed in a browser - of course it would have to be used sparingly, perhaps for illustrations, graphs etc. And hopefully it wouldn't end up with the size of PDF files increasing dramatically

Posted at 5:46AM on Dec 10th 2005 by Kola

3. The two plug-ins fill really different, specific needs, so I can't see much good in mixing things up. Besides dynamic pdfs are already possible with server-side scripting.

Posted at 3:25AM on Dec 23rd 2005 by Joe

4. They might have a point about adding PDF features to the

Flash Player, but I don't think that it could do any harm to make the Acrobat Reader be capable to running SWF files as a standalone application.

Posted at 6:28AM on Dec 23rd 2005 by Blue_chi

5. The two plug-ins fill really different, specific needs, so I can't see much good in mixing things up.

Posted at 8:20PM on Dec 27th 2005 by johnny

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