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Converting Website page to PDF while including Macromedia Flash component?

gordon757
Registered: Jul 8 2007
Posts: 9

Converting Website page to PDF while including Macromedia Flash component?
 
I am very new to PDFs and before now all that I did with PDFs is read them. I now have 7.0 Professional and I want to save a website page that includes a Macromedia Flash component/banner. I would like to save the entire page as a PDF to my hard drive from the Internet. Can I save a Macromedia Flash component from a website along with the website page?
 
I have gone to a website and I've converted the page to a PDF on my hard drive. It looks great, however, the Macromedia Flash component on the page from the website doesn't seem to have been converted or moved to my hard drive. Related, when I use my 7.0 Professional to view my PDF of that website page, it tells me I have a Macromedia Flash component and asks me if I wish to play it. When I indicate yes, then my computer screen sits forever running the "buffering" box and never completing this "buffering" task.
 
I am really new to this and any and all comment will be appreciated greatly.
 
Thank you.
 
gordon757

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.0, Windows
pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
Microsoft's new updates for the Windows operating systems now has a way to determine what software applications are installed on a person's computer. If one does not have the authoring software installed, they will not be able to alter the page component.

You probably have the Flash player installed but not Macromedia Flash.

Here is a suggestion that may or may not work.

Download a trial version of Flash or Flash Paper 2.0, install it, and see if this solves the problem.

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

gordon757
Registered: Jul 8 2007
Posts: 9
Thank you Eugene Williams for your reply to my question. I appreciate greatly what you have written, and I aprpeciate greatly the time you took to compose and send your message.

Best wishes.

Gordon