{"id":401,"date":"2008-05-28T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2008-04-29T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T13:22:06","slug":"print-2-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/print-2-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Print 2 PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been using this for some time now: sometimes you need to export something generated in Flash to a (vector) file. Another name for this post could be: Flash2PDF, Flash to PDF, SWF2PDF, SWF to PDF, Export2PDF, Export to PDF….. you catch my drift \ud83d\ude42
\nAnd the solution is very simple: just print a .PDF!<\/p>\n

What is PDF?<\/h3>\n

\nPortable Document Format (PDF) lets you capture and view robust information\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom any application, on any computer system.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

from the creators: Adobe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Read the explanation from wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

How does it work?<\/h3>\n

Windows<\/strong>
\nYou need to download (and install) a program: PDFCreator<\/a>. PDFCreator is opensource: which means a lot, but the only thing you need to know for now is that it’s free.<\/p>\n

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After you install it, you can print PDF files from every program: print a document, choose the printer with the name “PDF Creator” and print.
\n\"Print<\/p>\n

Mac OSX<\/strong>
\nApple doesn’t need a special program for that; it’s already build in: read more about that here<\/a>
\n(can’t tell you much about Mac… I own one, but it’s old so I don’t work on it anymore)
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I have been using this for some time now: sometimes you need to export something generated in Flash to a (vector) file. Another name for this post could be: Flash2PDF, Flash to PDF, SWF2PDF, SWF to PDF, Export2PDF, Export to PDF….. you catch my drift \ud83d\ude42 And the solution is very simple: just print a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,6],"tags":[39,408,398,133,134],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-flash","category-open-source-freeware","tag-as2","tag-as3","tag-flash","tag-pdf","tag-print"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t