Output Tab of Document Options Window
 Output
tab of Document Options window has various options affecting format of the
output Flash document. It also controls
metadata file options.
Flash Document Format group
This group of options controls the format of the output Flash document:
- Single file - this format produces a single Flash file for the
document. Print2Flash stores entire document content and its viewer movie in
a single file. This results in an autonomous document file that can be
viewed in the Flash Player without an additional document viewer. This
approach is used by the standard Print2Flash viewer but you may
develop your own viewer
of this kind. When this option is active, you may choose the document viewer
template to use for Flash document generation. You have three options:
- Use standard template (ActionScript 2) - this option selects the
standard built-in Flash document template using ActionScript 2. This template displays a document
in a scroll area and has a toolbar at
the top of the document viewer. This toolbar can be customized using
skins;
- Use standard template (ActionScript 3) - this option selects the
standard built-in Flash document template using ActionScript 3. This
template is similar to ActionScript 2 standard template in functionality. It
is a newer document template and it is preferable to use it instead of
ActionScript 2 template. The only case you may want to use ActionScript 2
template is if you intend to embed documents into another Flash movies which
use ActionScript 2. See
Print2Flash Document Application Programming Interface help topic for
more information;
- Use custom template (ActionScript 2 or 3) - this option allows
you to use your own or a third-party document template. This template can
employ either ActionScript 2 or 3. When choosing this option you need to
select a document template from disk. Print2Flash automatically detects the
ActionScript and Flash Player version used in your template. If you want to
select another template, click Change button and choose another
template file. See Designing
your Own Document Viewer for Single File Format for more information on
custom document templates;
- External viewer - this
format assumes storing a document in a single file (or in rare cases in
several files). The viewer for the document resides in a separate Flash
file. This format is the most flexible and overcomes
several problems inherent to other formats. See Output Formats
help topic for more information;
-
Single file per page - this format produces not a single SWF file
but a set of SWF files, each document page being stored in a separate SWF
file. The number of files constituting a document corresponds to the number
of pages in the document. Page SWF files have no viewer embedded in them so
to view a document in this format you need to develop an external document
viewer application in Flash, JavaScript (HTML) or other language. This
application should load these page files and display them in some manner to
present the document to the user. Print2Flash Application provides a preview of documents in this format
using its built-in JavaScript (HTML) viewer. You may obtain this viewer if
you save the document to disk using
Save HTML button.
See Designing your
Own Document Viewer for Single File per Page Format for more information.
When this option is active, you may setup additional parameters:
Metadata group
Options in this group control creation of metadata
file.
Create metadata file option specifies if
metadata file should be created. Metadata file format option lets you
choose between two available file formats: Text and XML. After you
convert a document, metadata file is displayed in the Metadata tab of the
Print2Flash Application window.
See Metadata for more information.
|
