FlashPaper 2 provides several different methods for converting a document to the FlashPaper format. Documents can be converted from within Microsoft Word, from the Windows Explorer environment, or even from within Contribute. Converting a Microsoft Word Document to FlashPaper from Within WordOne easy way to convert your Microsoft Word documents to FlashPaper movies is to use the FlashPaper menu added to Word when FlashPaper was installed. As shown in Figure 33.1, the FlashPaper menu enables you to create a Flash movie or PDF file with the click of your mouse. Figure 33.1. The FlashPaper menu is added to Microsoft Word when FlashPaper is installed with Contribute.
After a document has been converted, it can be inserted into any web page as a Flash object. Tip After FlashPaper is installed, the FlashPaper menu also exists in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Following the same process, you can also publish Excel worksheets and PowerPoint presentations as FlashPaper. Tip Mac users can convert a document to FlashPaper by choosing File, Print and then selecting FlashPaper as the printer option. Converting Documents from Within Windows ExplorerA second option for converting a document to FlashPaper is to navigate to the document in Windows Explorer and right-click on the document. From the context menu, shown in Figure 33.2, you can choose whether to create a Flash document or PDF document. Figure 33.2. The context menu from within the Windows Explorer environment.
Just as it does when converting documents from within Word, the FlashPaper application asks you to select an output destination for the new Flash movie and then converts the document to FlashPaper. |