Printing Application Interface

When a document is converted, or "printed", with Print2Flash, Print2Flash Printing Application is launched. At first, this application shows you conversion progress. Then, it displays you the converted document for preview. And finally, you may save the converted document to disk.

To open Print2Flash Printing Application, start printing a document to the Print2Flash Printer or choose "Print2Flash Printing Application" from the "All Programs/Print2Flash 3" submenu of Windows start menu.

The Printing Application screenshot is shown below:

Toolbar

The Print2Flash Printing Application toolbar has the following buttons:

  Convert - converts any printable document to Print2Flash format. You will be  prompted for the location of the document you want to convert. After conversion the converted document is shown in the converted document area and then you can save it using various Save... buttons (see below).

Save - saves both Flash and HTML5 versions of the document altogether will all files necessary to open the document. It will create a HTML preview file and a related folder with the document (named after the file name but ending with _files). See How to Publish a Print2Flash Document on the Web? topic for more information.

Save Flash - saves only the Flash version of the document. The behavior of this button differs for various Flash output formats:

• In "Single file" format you will be prompted for the filename and location of the document file before saving. In the Save As Type field you may choose whether you want to save only the Flash document file (Flash Document option) or the document altogether with HTML preview page (Flash Document with HTML Preview Page option). In the latter case it will create a HTML preview file and a related folder with the document (named after the file name but ending with _files);
• In "Single file per page" format this option shows a window prompting for a folder in which page Flash files should be stored. Additionally you may set "Create HTML Preview Page" option to create a HTML file for previewing the document and a related folder with the document resources;
• In "External viewer" format you will be prompted for the filename and location of document file(s) before saving. In the Save As Type field you may choose whether you want to save only the Flash document file (Flash Document option) or the document altogether with the viewer and HTML preview page (Flash Document with HTML Preview Page option). In the latter case it will create a HTML preview file and a related folder with the document (named after the file name but ending with _files).

Save HTML - saves only the HMTL5 version of the document. You will be  prompted for the file name and location of the HTML document file. In the Save As Type field you may choose whether you want to save only the HTML document without the viewer (HTML Document option) or altogether with the viewer and preview page (HTML Document with Preview Page option). It will create a file and a related folder with document resources (named after the file name but ending with _files).

Save All - saves all data generated at the last document conversion: Flash and/or HTML5 document, metadata file and page thumbnails. You will be shown the Save All window where you can choose a location to save the data to and other saving options.

Help - shows this help system.

Menu

The main menu of Print2Flash Printing Application has the following options:

• File:
  • Open & Convert a Document... - similar to Convert toolbar button
  • Save... - similar to Save button
  • Save Flash… - similar to Save Flash button
  • Save HTML… - similar to Save HTML button
  • Save All... - similar to Save All button
  • Exit – exits the application
• Options:
  • Default HTML Options - opens Default HTML Options window
  • Default Printing Preferences – opens Default Printing Preferences window
  • Default Document Options – opens Default Document Options window
  • Skin Editor - opens Skin Editor window
  • Print2Flash Service Configuration - opens Print2Flash Service Configuration window
• Help:
  • Print2Flash Help – shows this help system
  • Check for Updates - checks if a newer version of Print2Flash is available. If you want Print2Flash to check for new versions automatically, you need to choose this option and set "Check for updates automatically" option in the dialog window shown next
  • Register Print2Flash Now! – choose this link to register Print2Flash. See Registration topic for information on Print2Flash registration
  • Enter Registration Key – allows you to enter the registration key you obtained after registration. See Registration topic for information on Print2Flash registration
  • Print2Flash Website - opens Print2Flash home page www.print2flash.com
  • About Print2Flash – opens About window

Converted document area

The bottom part of Print2Flash Printing Application shows the converted document interface along with other generated data: metadata file and thumbnails. There can be up to four tabs here:

Flash Document tab

Here you may preview the converted Flash document before saving it to disk. This tab is shown only if you requested Flash document conversion with Create Flash Document option in the Flash Output Tab of Document Options window. While previewing you may perform any operations allowed in document interface: scrolling, enlarging, rotating the document, etc. See Converted Document Interface for more information.

HTML Document tab

Here you may preview the converted HTML5 document before saving it to disk. This tab is shown only if you requested HTML5 document conversion with Create HTML5 Document option in the HTML5 Output Tab of Document Options window. While previewing you may perform any operations allowed in document interface: scrolling, enlarging, rotating the document, etc. See Converted Document Interface for more information.

Metadata tab

If you requested creation of metadata file using Metadata tab of Document Options Window, it is displayed in this tab.

Thumbnails tab

If you requested creation of page thumbnail files using Thumbnails tab of Document Options Window, they are shown in the Thumbnails tab. Thumbnail images are scaled when shown in this preview. To view a thumbnail in its true dimensions, just click the image in the list.