{"id":200,"date":"2008-02-04T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/flash-cs3-pdf-integration\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:58:55","slug":"flash-cs3-pdf-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/flash-cs3-pdf-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe PDF and Flash CS3 “Integration”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are two direct quotes from Adobe’s web site…<\/p>\n

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  1. PDF<\/strong><\/a>: “Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) lets you capture and view robust information\u2014from any application<\/strong>, on any computer system\u2014and share it with anyone around the world.”<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. CS3<\/strong><\/a>: “Revolutionary integration – in editions for web, design, and video, and the all encompassing Master Collection – means you can flow across and within applications, in virtually any medium<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So riddle me this my caped Flashers… Why can’t Flash CS3 import a PDF file?<\/strong> Flash 8 could import PDF files, why not Flash CS3?<\/p>\n

    Here’s what you see when you try to import a PDF file into Flash 8:
    \nFlash 8 PDF Import<\/p>\n

    Here’s what you see when you try to import a PDF file into Flash CS3:
    \nFlash CS3 PDF Import<\/p>\n

    Why has a fairly significant feature been removed from an application touting its “REVOLUTIONARY INTEGRATION”? My guess is that it has less to do with “file integration” and more to do with “cash extraction”.<\/p>\n

    To get a PDF into Flash with CS3 you have to open the PDF file in Illustrator ($599, only $199 if you upgrade), save it as an AI file, and then import it into Flash. I’d like to think Adobe has a good reason for removing the PDF import feature from Flash, but to me this just seems like corporate dickery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Lack of support for PDF import or integration in the latest version of Flash is suspect considering the highly touted “integration” of Adobe’s CS suites of software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","tag-adobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}