Chapter 9. Working with External Documents

Macromedia Contribute gives you the ability to edit Web sites, and in previous chapters we’ve seen how you can use Contribute to create and work with HTML files, image files, and even some media files, such as Macromedia Flash files. In Chapter 6, “Working with Links,” we touched on Contribute’s ability to link to other file types.

The FlashPaper 2 application, included with the Windows version of Contribute, turns any document you can print into a Flash file that is inserted into your draft page. This Flash document can be read in almost all browsers, using the widely-installed Flash Player.

Contribute has special capabilities for working with documents from two other applications, Microsoft Word and Microsoft ...

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