.FLP File Extension

Macromedia released Flash in the 1990s, and Adobe Systems later acquired it, helping it become a popular tool for delivering interactive web experiences, such as animations, videos, online games, and advertisements. As users created these experiences, they saved them as FLP projects to preserve their progress and organize all of the project's related assets, ensuring they were correctly linked and accessible during editing and final output.

Although it was widely used, Flash relied on a browser plugin, which raised security and compatibility issues. Adobe officially discontinued Flash in 2020, with modern web standards like HTML5 and CSS3 taking its place.

You can open FLP files with Adobe Flash, but it is discontinued. Since FLP files store text in the XML standard, you can also open them with a text or XML editor to view their properties and the locations of files imported into the projects.

Promethean's software product ActivInspire uses the .FLIPCHART extension, but can still open FLP files.

NOTE: If FruityLoops or FL Studio are installed on the same computer as ActivPrimary or ActivStudio, the Flipchart file association may be incorrectly assigned to FruityLoops or FL Studio. You can open the Flipchart files directly in Promethean software by selecting File → Open....

The floppy disk image program named fdimage.exe is a common MS-DOS program used to created FLP files. It is also included with FreeBSD installation CDs.

You can open and extract files from an FLP file using MagicISO (Windows). You can also add your FLP file as a floppy drive in VMWare Fusion (Mac), VMWare Workstation (Windows, Linux), and VMWare Workstation Player (Windows, Linux).