Macromedia® Flash

Available only in PopChart Server Pro and PopChart Server Enterprise.

Flash is a vector graphic image type developed by Macromedia and is widely used in Web sites. Flash images are small, load quickly and have interactive capabilities such as drill down, rollover and PopUp text. Flash images print at a high resolution. Another advantage is that a user can put a Flash image directly into a Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation.

The Flash viewer (Flash Player 3.0 or later) is required to view a Flash image. It is estimated that more than 96% of Internet users already have the proper Flash viewer.

More information about the Flash format is available from Macromedia's website at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/.

Note: With Best Image Fallback you can have the user's web browser dynamically decide what image format to display. In this case, it will probably not matter if you choose Flash or SVG as the format of your PopChart Image. The user will see the PopChart image in GIF format if they don't have the Flash or SVG plug-in. For more information refer to "Best Image Fallback" in Chapter 4 of the PopChart Server User Guide.