Before the release of Flash, websites and web pages used to be very simple, dull and boring containing plain text, static images, and the occasional video. From videos to games and from interactive widgets to presentations; Flash is being used everywhere.

As the current leading solution for delivering interactive content, Flash has even pervaded into the PDF sphere. Adobe has made it simple for anyone to incorporate Flash components within a PDF file with everyday applications like Acrobat 9.  

Interested in creating an interactive PDF with Flash for your website? There are a few things you should know first.

In this two part blog posting, we take a closer look at Flash: its impact on the Web, its integration with Acrobat and finally, its visibility with search engines while in the PDF format. So let’s take a look at how Flash has changed the PDF scene.

Where digital documents have made data portability easier, they have also created confusion among their users because most digital documents are complex, unpredictable and platform dependent.

However, the PDF format has given an entirely new definition to the term "digital documents".

Here's a look at some of the benefits of the PDF that have made it a superior file format and  that have changed the definition of what a digital document is.