Getting Started
Welcome to Print2Flash!
This page will help you to quickly learn the main features of Print2Flash and
how to work and benefit from it.
Print2Flash lets you easily convert any printable document (Microsoft Word, or
Excel, or PowerPoint document) to an Adobe ® Flash ® file (file with SWF
extension). This file can be shared with users who don’t have the software that
created the original document (for example, Microsoft Word). You can
view such
files with Adobe ® Flash ® Player that is available across a number of
operating systems. These files can be easily
published on the Web as well for
fast and easy access to them anywhere across the globe.
The best way to get help on Print2Flash is its help system. Consult it in
case you need more thorough understanding of Print2Flash toolbars, dialog
boxes and windows, have questions or to learn how to accomplish typical tasks.
To access the help system press F1 key in Print2Flash
dialog boxes and windows or click Help button that brings you right to the
respective help topic on those windows. You may also press Help button on the
converted document toolbar or
select Help/Print2Flash Help in
printing application menu or choose "Print2Flash Help" from All
Programs/Print2Flash submenu of Windows start menu. If the help system provides
you with no answer, visit our web site
http://print2flash.com or apply to our support service to
support@print2flash.com.
Click here to find out more about Print2Flash support.
Converting Documents to Adobe ® Flash ® (SWF) Files
First and most important task that is accomplished by Print2Flash is
converting any printable document to an Adobe ® Flash ® file (file with SWF
extension). This is very easy to do. Let us guide you through your first
conversion of your document to Flash file. Our example concerns converting a
Microsoft Word file to Flash but you may easily convert any other type of
document, e.g. Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, WordPad or even AutoCAD document. To
convert a document you need to do the following:
- Double-click the document you wish to convert to open it in the
respective application (Microsoft Word in our case)
- Select File/Print from the Microsoft Word application menu You
should see a Print dialog
- Select Print2Flash printer for Printer Name and click OK
- Shortly afterwards you should see the progress window which shows you
that the conversion process is taking place. Please wait until it is
finished.
- Now you should see a converted Print2Flash document in the
printing application. Select
File > Save as Flash to save the document in the
desired location
See How to Convert a Document to
Adobe ® Flash ® (SWF) File? to learn more about document conversion.
Viewing of Converted Flash Documents
After you saved the Print2Flash document as indicated in the previous
chapter, it is as easy as a double click on the saved SWF file to view it! Note
that you must have Adobe Flash
Player
installed on your computer in order to view the file. It is very probable that
it is already installed there, but if you don't, you may easily get and
install it from
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash
The Print2Flash documents feature nice and comfortable
user interface for viewing converted
documents. For instance, you may:
- Reduce or enlarge the document using
zoom slider;
- Flip through the document pages using
Previous Page or
Next Page buttons;
- Search for a word a phrase within the document text by typing a word in
the
Search text box and pressing
Search button;
- Copy a text from the document by clicking
Select Text button,
selecting the text you want to copy with mouse and pressing Ctrl-C. Then you
may paste the text in another application by switching to it and pressing
Ctrl-V
You may also perform a number of other operations while viewing Print2Flash
documents. See Converted Document Interface
to learn more about this.
Publishing of Converted Flash Documents
And now after you converted and previewed your document, you may publish it
to the Internet so that anyone can easily view it without having to install
special software (Microsoft Word, AutoCAD, etc.)
There are following options here:
- You may send the converted SWF file by e-mail
- You may write the converted SWF file to CD or DVD
- You may upload the converted SWF file to a forum or discussion group. In
this case the file usually gets a link to it and anyone has only to click it
to view your document. You may also send this link by e-mail or post it to
forums or websites
- If you have your own website, you may upload the converted SWF file
there and thus receive a link to your document that can be treated like in
the previous case
Note that having a link anyone can view your document. The only thing user
needs to view it is having Adobe
Flash Player installed on his or her computer which can be easily got
and installed from
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash
There are also other options in publishing your document. See
How to Publish the Document on the Web?
to learn more about this.
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