Flashpaper 2 CAN play nice with Vista!
October 14, 2008
Do you use Flashpaper 2? Have you upgraded to Vista? Did you start getting “Error: Could not find Flashpaper Printer”? Did Adobe tell you you’d just have to bite the bullet and go for CS4?
If you answered “YES!” to any of these questions (and if you answered “yes” to one of them, you probably answered “yes” to all of them), then I’m here to tell you there IS a solution! Believe it or not, the solution is from Adobe and believe it or not, it dates back to 2004! All you have to do is download and run the Flashpaper Patch Installer. NOTE: You DO have to have Flashpaper 2 installed on your computer before you run the patch installer. The patch installer only downloads the printer driver.
OK, now these are my own observations about Flashpaper 2 (still use it on my Vista PC), Adobe (too many conflicting solutions) and Vista (after the initial “getting to know each other” phase, I’m happy with it). You don’t have to share them. I installed Macromedia Studio 8 on my new Vista machine and since Dreamweaver is the program that I use most often, I didn’t notice that Flashpaper wasn’t working…until I needed to use it. I have a website client who publishes periodic newsletters on their website and I hadn’t posted one since before I changed to Vista. I changed from posting the newsletters as .pdf files to Flashpaper2 files sometime in 2007. Last week, I got a couple of newsletters in Publisher format and when I tried to print them with Flashpaper2, I got that dang error message. Not to be discouraged, I started searching for a solution and discovered on the first few results that Flashpaper2 just wasn’t compatible with Vista, or with Intel based Macs. I was reading through an Adobe Flashpaper general forum and becoming more and more discouraged when I found a post WAY toward the bottom from Thomas Vedel with the link to the Flashpaper Patch Installer. Hey, thanks, Thomas! Worked like a charm. Funny thing, but nobody responded to his post (I guess I really should so he knows somebody actually read it) and just started offering up other software applications.
SO, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Thomas Vedel proved that, no thanks to Adobe. Yes, Virginia, Flashpaper2 DOES work with Vista!
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October 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
ive struggled and failed with this since getting vista back at teh Beta 2 stage of the OS – and thank you very sincerely for this post! I just randomly fell on the adobe forums today and thuoght id have a look to see if the issue was resolved; and got linked here. fantastic; thanks! Im going to check it works now
!! thanks in advance
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 am
I’ve just ‘upgraded’ my PC and now have Vista Home Premium – Eventually got Flashpaper to install by uninstalling FlashPLAYER then reinstalling it after installing FlashPAPER – I’m now in the same situation as you were with “Error: Could not find Flashpaper Printer” –
Problem is the link to the patch seems to be dead or Adobe’s site is down.
Do you know of an alternative source for this patch?
Thanks! ?’ts good to know it can work!!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I hope you were both able to use the patch to get Flashpaper 2 working for you. I’d like to hear about your experience using it. Was it successful? Was it unsuccessful? Chris did have problems accessing the Adobe site but managed to resolve that issue by using a proxy. Let me hear how it worked!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Well…….. As Paige says I downloaded the patch and now the flashpaper printer is installed but on trying to use Flashpaper to convert pdf or Word documents to swf it caused the parent application to freeze. So for now I’m going to use my XP machine to convert and since Adobe have stopped developing Flashpaper I will look into alternatives like Print2Flash http://www.print2flash.com/ I’ve installed their free version on Vista with no problems whatsoever and will see how it performs.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Thanks, Chris, for providing us with another option to the FlashPaper dilemma.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:11 am
FlashPaper hangs on my XP computer too, but if I check “Print to file” and type a meaningless file name (I usually type “a” and tell it to overwrite any existing file), the job goes through OK. It doesn’t actually print any thing to the file which comes out @ 0 bytes, but it triggers the Flashpaper printer to work like it should.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Isn’t is weird how doing something that makes no sense at all can give you the result you want? I have to do that when I log out of WP on some of my accounts. I get a blank screen but when I hit refresh,I can logout….weird….
April 30th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Thanks for publishing this! I actually had to manually install the printer that they talked about in the article. My problems were solved when I selected something other than LPT1. Works great now!
May 27th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Thanks! It works great!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Wow! I’m always amazed at how many people are searching for a solution to the same kind of problems I’m having. I also appreciate all the feedback from people who have tried the same solution I tried and found out it works for them, too.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Hi,
I’m Daivid. I have installed flash paper 2 in windows vista home primium. Everything was all right, but there was a problem which is error message. I have got a error message that said “the flash paper printer could not be found,
August 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am
David, did you install the Flash Paper Patch Installer? You can find a link for it in my post.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I’m using Vista Ultimate and after downloading and installing FlashPaper2 trial version, the application (FlashPaper) won’t even start up. I receive an error message that it cannot start the application.
Will the fix above also correct the problem I’m having?
Jim
August 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Jim, since the fix worked for me on Home Premium, I can’t confirm that it will fix your issue with Ultimate. I’d give it a shot, though. If it doesn’t work for you, all you need to do is uninstall it.
August 25th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Soooooooooooooooooooo, after reading 3 pages I found this and I can imagine it works but the patch doesn’t work for 64-bit versions of XP or Vista, when i went and did it myself i got this error “Operation could not be completed (error 0×800f0214). So i went back to the patch page and tried to do it manually and thats when it gave me that the “fp.inf” file isn’t for 64-bit. SOOOOOOOOO, does anyone know how to fix this, I’m still looking but I guess why not put it here and maybe someone has done it already, thanks in advance and thanks to everyone thus far!!!
August 25th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Vlad, I hope somebody else with 64-bit has found the solution and will find this post and share it!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
It lives! Thank you so kindly! I just made some Flash Papers on Vista and my boss loves me again!!! I owe you a beer*!
*if you live in Australia!
August 27th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Angus, I don’t live in Australia but you can buy my friend, Rose, a beer and she can drink it for me. She lives in Tasmania.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:18 am
the link is dead
any idea where to get it from?
can someone upload it to rapidshare please?
November 8th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I checked the links in the post and they both worked. Maybe Adobe was having issues when you tried.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:26 am
install the program, disregard the flash.cox error
install the newest version of flash activx
install the printer driver from the link above
enter the serial number the first time you run the program
it does run but when I try to print anything using flaspaper it suspends and becomes unresponsive.
I even change the flash10/cox with flash.cox and registered it but no change
it is a small fix that adobe is too lazy to fix they just want 70$ for this stupid program still.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Adobe has always preferred that you spend money to update. That’s what got me to searching for a solution to the Flashpaper problem to begin with. The patch worked beautifully for me and for several others who left comments on this post. I also didn’t have to buy anything. Maybe Adobe has changed the requirements for installing the patch since I found it. I don’t think they’re lazy. I just think they’d rather make money.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I have vista 32 and wrote exactly what I did
what do you think is the problem. I am sure there are many people in need of flashpaper update I guess it is not worth the time for adobe, i dont understand why they dont offer the update for money..
November 8th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Only Adobe knows…..
December 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I have Vista Ultimate 64bit – tried downloading Flash Paper2 – when i open my ppt file and when i click on the “conver to pdf” icon – i get “MMXpt has Stopped Working” error. I found your blog and clicked on the link to download the Flash Paper Printer – but it says FILE NOT FOUND !!! Can you please post a working link or mail it to me.
Thanks.
December 16th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I tested the link in my post that goes to the Adobe page where you can download the Flashpaper Installer. I also checked the link on the Adobe page where you can actually download the installer and it works, too. If you don’t have Flashpaper 2 already installed on your computer, that may be why the install link doesn’t work for you. for the installer doesn’t work for you.
March 6th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
It all seems straightforward from reading all the above… but the 1904 error on re-install is still a real bug-bear and FlashPaper just hangs, even with the 2004 FP.INF update. Dand those buggers at Adobe! Time to try something else on my Vista laptop… at least Contribute still works!
March 7th, 2010 at 8:24 am
Hey, don’t get me started about Audition…..
May 16th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Same here, the process works perfectly in a 32-bit windows but so far I cannot find any solutions on the web for the 64-bit print driver. Has anyone heard or found a solution for this.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:11 am
I tried the patch on Vista Home Premium and although it didn’t crash the printing application, it just said in the printer folder that it had errored….having read above I looked at the assigned ports and noticed that there is a flashpaper port available in the printers properties ports tab, even though the driver defaults to lpt1.
Even with the original flashpaper driver, ticking that box solved my problems and I can print word documents pdfs etc…..from vista…….
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:30 am
Thanks for sharing your solution, Robin. I wonder how Flashpaper 2 works with Windows 7. Anybody had any experiences with it?
July 3rd, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Hi Paige, it works fine in Windows 7 32bit with the usual errors but doesn’t work at all in 64bit due to the lack 64bit print driver support which I still have yet to find.
July 3rd, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Hey, thanks for the update, Dave. I’ve got a 32 bit Win7 upgrade still in the box that I haven’t had the courage to install yet. I’m not afraid of it not working. I’m just not looking forward to the amount of time it’s gonna take me…