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Entries from April 2007

Printing in Flash 8 - the hard way

April 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Practice Paper screenshot

I’ve been developing a Flash-based application for my websites called ‘Practice Paper’ for over two years now. The first one was on my ReviseICT.co.uk site, which I then developed further to appear on my SchoolHistory.co.uk site. Basic printing was on offer, but it didn’t work very well.

Last year I posted extensively about the issues I was facing - see this post, also titled ‘Printing in Flash 8′ - the basic conclusion was that if you printed text from Flash everything would work out fine unless you wanted to print more than one page. Then the trouble starts - I tried an exhastive number of solutions and not one worked….

Or did it? Well, in some respects - no it didn’t at all.

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Tags: e-Learning

Publishing tool of the century

April 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Flash - the publishing tool of the century

Very interesting article from the Guardian [click the link above] - makes some excellent comments and helps explain why Flash is such a useful tool. It isn’t detailed enough to cover the uses in Education (which is what my blog is about) but it doesn’t take much […]

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