Document Outline

• Contents
• Chapter 1: Getting started
  • Installation
    • Requirements
    • Install the software
    • Activate the software
    • Register
    • Change or reinstall Flash Player
  • Using Help
    • About Flash Help
    • Adobe Help resources
    • Searching Flash Help
    • Access context-sensitive Help from the Actions panel
    • Choosing the right Help documents
  • Resources
    • Adobe Video Workshop
    • Flash CS3 Professional videos
    • Extras
    • Bridge Home
    • Adobe Design Center
    • Adobe Developer Center
    • Customer support
    • Downloads
    • Adobe Labs
    • User communities
  • What’s new
    • New features
• Chapter 2: Workspace
  • Flash workflow and workspace
    • General Flash workflow
    • Workspace overview
    • Customize the workspace
    • Save, delete, and switch between workspaces
  • Using the Stage and Tools panel
    • Welcome screen overview
    • Using the Stage
    • Use rulers
    • Use guides
    • Use the grid
    • About the main toolbar and edit bar
    • Tools panel overview
    • Use the Tools panel
    • Use context menus
    • Set preferences in Flash
    • Customize keyboard shortcuts
    • Create custom keyboard shortcuts
  • The Timeline
    • About the Timeline
    • Change the appearance of the Timeline
    • Move the playhead
    • Change the display of frames in the Timeline
    • About layers
    • Create layers and layer folders
    • View layers and layer folders
    • Edit layers and layer folders
    • Organize layers and layer folders
    • Use guide layers
  • Using Flash authoring panels
    • About the Property inspector
    • About the Library panel
    • About the Actions panel
    • Use the Movie Explorer
    • About the Web Services panel
  • Accessibility in the Flash workspace
    • About accessibility support
    • About Flash authoring accessibility on the Macintosh
    • Select panels or the Property inspector with keyboard shortcuts
    • Select controls in a panel or the Property inspector using keyboard shortcuts
    • Navigate dialog box controls using keyboard shortcuts (Windows only)
    • Select the Stage or objects on the Stage using keyboard shortcuts
    • Navigate tree structures using keyboard shortcuts
    • Work with library items using keyboard shortcuts
  • Undo, redo, and history
    • Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
    • Permanently remove items deleted with Undo
    • Using the History panel
    • Undo steps with the History panel
    • Replay steps with the History panel
    • Copy and paste steps between documents
  • Automating tasks with the Commands menu
    • Create and manage commands
    • Run commands
    • Get more commands
    • Steps that can’t be used in commands
• Chapter 3: Creating and managing documents
  • Working with Flash documents
    • About Flash files
    • Create or open a document and set its properties
    • View a document when multiple documents are open
    • Save Flash documents
    • Working with other Adobe applications
  • Creating and previewing mobile content with Adobe Device Central
    • Access Adobe components from Adobe Device Central
    • Create mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Flash CS3
    • Create mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Photoshop
    • Create mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Illustrator
    • Preview a movie on a virtual mobile device using Adobe Premiere Pro
    • Preview a movie on a virtual mobile device using After Effects
    • Preview mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Dreamweaver
    • Access Adobe Device Central from Adobe Bridge
  • Working with projects
    • About projects
    • Create and manage projects
    • Use version control with projects
    • Troubleshooting remote folder setup for Flash projects
  • Adding media to the library
    • Managing media assets with the Flash document library
    • Work with libraries
    • Work with library items
    • Work with folders in the Library panel
    • Sort items in the Library panel
    • Edit a library item
    • Rename a library item
    • Delete a library item
    • Find unused library items
    • Update imported files in the library
    • Work with common libraries
  • Working with timelines
    • About frames and keyframes
    • Manage frames and keyframes in the Timeline
    • About multiple timelines and levels
    • About nested movie clips and parent-child hierarchy
    • About absolute paths
    • About relative paths
    • Using absolute and relative target paths
    • Specify target paths
  • Working with scenes
    • About scenes
    • Use scenes
  • Find and Replace
    • About Find and Replace
    • Find and replace text
    • Find and replace fonts
    • Find and replace colors
    • Find and replace symbols
    • Find and replace sound, video, or bitmap files
  • Templates
    • About templates
    • To use templates
    • Use the Photo Slideshow template
• Chapter 4: Adobe Version Cue
  • Working with Adobe Version Cue
    • About Version Cue
    • What’s new
    • Version Cue basics
    • Version Cue workflow
    • Accessing Version Cue features
    • Using Creative Suite 2 components and Acrobat 8 with Version Cue CS3
    • Use the Adobe dialog box
    • Version Cue Server and project icons
    • Enable Version Cue file management
    • View Version Cue information
  • Working with the Version Cue Server
    • About Version Cue Server installation
    • Turn on and configure the Version Cue Server
    • Set Version Cue Server preferences
    • Change the location of the Data folder
    • Connect to remote servers
    • Connect to a Version Cue Server using WebDAV
    • Migrate projects to the Version Cue 3.0 Server
    • Shut down or restart the Version Cue Server
  • Working with Version Cue projects
    • About Version Cue projects
    • Create projects
    • Open a project
    • Edit project properties
    • Change a project’s shared status
    • Change the location of project backups
    • Add files and folders to a project
    • Delete projects
    • Disconnect from projects
  • Working with files in Version Cue
    • About local project files
    • File statuses
    • Open a file in a project
    • Save changes to a local project file
    • Remove local project files
    • Edit files checked out by another user
    • Move and copy Version Cue files
    • Search for Version Cue files
    • Placing Version Cue files
    • Delete files or folders from a project
  • Version Cue versions
    • About versions
    • Check in versions
    • View, promote, and delete versions
  • Editing and synchronizing offline files
    • About offline files
    • Edit offline files
    • Synchronize files
  • Version Cue Server Administration
    • About Version Cue Server Administration
    • Version Cue Server Administration software requirements
    • Log in to Version Cue Server Administration
    • Create and manage users
    • Create and manage projects in Version Cue Server Administration
    • Back up and restore projects
    • Advanced Version Cue Server Administration tasks
  • Version Cue PDF reviews
    • About Version Cue PDF reviews
    • Start a Version Cue PDF review
    • Manage PDF reviews
    • View or delete PDF review comments
    • Troubleshooting
    • Keyboard shortcuts
• Chapter 5: Using imported artwork
  • Placing artwork into Flash
    • About importing artwork into Flash
    • Place artwork in Flash
    • Importing file formats for vector or bitmap files
    • Working with Illustrator and Flash
    • About importing Fireworks PNG files
    • Using Fireworks effects and blend modes in Flash
    • Import text from Fireworks into Flash
    • Import FreeHand MX files
    • About AutoCAD DXF files
  • Working with Illustrator AI files
    • About Adobe Illustrator AI files
    • Import Adobe Illustrator files
    • Importing AI files to the Flash library
    • AI File Importer preferences
    • Copy and pasting between Illustrator and Flash
    • Illustrator object import options
  • Working with Photoshop PSD files
    • Working with Photoshop and Flash
    • About Photoshop PSD files
    • Import Photoshop PSD files
    • Importing PSD files to the Flash library
    • PSD file import preferences
    • Photoshop Import options
  • Imported bitmaps
    • Working with imported bitmaps
    • Use the Property inspector to work with bitmaps
    • Set bitmap properties
    • Import bitmaps at runtime
    • Apply a bitmap as a fill
    • Edit bitmaps in an external editor
    • Break apart a bitmap
    • Convert bitmaps to vector graphics
• Chapter 6: Drawing
  • Drawing Basics
    • About drawing
    • About vector and bitmap graphics
    • About the Flash drawing models
    • About overlapping shapes
    • Use the Object Drawing model
    • Select objects
    • Combining objects
    • Specify drawing preferences
  • Using Flash drawing and painting tools
    • About Flash drawing and painting tools
    • Draw with the Pencil tool
    • Draw straight lines
    • Draw rectangles and ovals
    • Draw polygons and stars
    • Paint with the Brush tool
    • About paths
    • About direction lines and direction points
  • Drawing with the Pen tool
    • Interacting with the Pen tool
    • Set Pen tool preferences
    • Draw straight lines with the Pen tool
    • Draw curves with the Pen tool
    • Add or delete anchor points
    • Adjust anchor points on paths
    • Adjust segments
  • Reshaping lines and shape outlines
    • Display and adjust points with the Subselection tool
    • Reshape using the Selection tool
    • Straighten and smooth lines
    • Optimize curves
    • Erase
    • Modify shapes
  • Snapping
    • About snapping
    • Use object snapping
    • Use pixel snapping
    • Use snap alignment
• Chapter 7: Working with color, strokes, and fills
  • Working with color
    • About color
    • About the Color panel
  • Modifying color palettes
    • About color palettes
    • Duplicate, delete, and clear colors
    • Use the default palette and the web-safe palette
    • Sort color by hue in the palette
    • Import and export color palettes
  • Strokes, fills, and gradients
    • Use the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Tools panel
    • Use the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Property inspector
    • Creating gradients
    • Work with solid colors and gradient fills in the Color panel
    • Modify strokes with the Ink Bottle tool
    • Apply solid, gradient, and bitmap fills with the Paint Bucket tool
    • Transform gradient and bitmap fills
    • Copy strokes and fills with the Eyedropper tool
    • Lock a gradient or bitmap to fill the Stage
• Chapter 8: Working with graphic objects
  • About graphic objects
    • Understanding graphic objects in Flash
    • About shapes
    • About drawing objects
    • About primitive objects
  • Selecting objects
    • Selecting objects
    • Select objects with the Selection tool
    • Select objects with the Lasso tool
    • Hide selection highlighting
    • Set custom bounding box colors for selected objects
  • Moving, copying, and deleting objects
    • Moving and copying objects
    • Move objects
    • Move and copy objects by pasting
    • Copying objects with the clipboard
    • Copy transformed objects
    • Delete objects
  • Arranging objects
    • Stack objects
    • Align objects
    • Group objects
    • Break apart groups and objects
  • Transforming objects
    • Transforming objects
    • Move, realign, change, and track the transformation point
    • Transform objects freely
    • Distort objects
    • Modify shapes with the Envelope modifier
    • Scale objects
    • Rotate objects
    • Skew objects
    • Flip objects
    • Restore transformed objects
• Chapter 9: Using symbols, instances, and library assets
  • Working with symbols
    • Symbols overview
    • Types of symbols
    • Create symbols
    • Convert animation on the Stage into a movie clip
    • Duplicate symbols
    • Edit symbols
  • Working with symbol instances
    • Create instances
    • About changing instance properties
    • Change the color and transparency of an instance
    • Swap one instance for another
    • Change an instance’s type
    • Set looping for graphic instances
    • Break apart an instance symbol
    • Get information about instances on the Stage
  • Library assets
    • Copy library assets between documents
    • Conflicts between library assets
    • Resolve naming conflicts between library assets
  • Using shared library assets
    • About shared library assets
    • Working with runtime shared assets
    • Define runtime shared assets in a source document
    • Link to runtime shared assets from a destination document
    • Update or replace symbols
  • Working with button symbols
    • Create a button
    • Enable, edit, and test buttons
  • Scaling and caching symbols
    • About 9-slice scaling and movie clip symbols
    • Edit movie clip symbols with 9-slice scaling
    • About runtime bitmap caching movie clip and button symbols
    • Specify bitmap caching for a movie clip
  • Symbols and ActionScript
    • About controlling instances and symbols with ActionScript
    • Controlling instances with behaviors
    • Add and configure a behavior
    • Create custom behaviors
• Chapter 10: Creating animation
  • Animation basics
    • Creating motion
    • About layers in animation
    • Creating keyframes
    • Create keyframes
    • About representations of animation in the Timeline
    • About frame rates
    • About frame-by-frame animation
    • Create frame-by-frame animations
    • Edit animations
    • Use onion skinning
    • Move an entire animation
    • Copy and paste a motion tween
    • Paste motion tween properties
    • Copy motion as ActionScript
    • Extend still images
    • About mask layers
    • Work with mask layers
  • Using Timeline effects
    • About Timeline effects
    • Add a Timeline effect
    • Timeline effect settings
    • Edit a Timeline effect
    • Delete a Timeline effect
  • Tweened animation
    • About tweened animation
    • Distributing objects to layers for tweened animation
    • About new layers
    • Distribute objects to layers
    • Add a motion tween to instances, groups, or type
    • Tween motion along a path
    • Apply custom ease in/ease out to motion tweens
    • Compatibility with current ease in/ease out settings
    • Unsupported easing curves
    • Control shape changes with shape hints
• Chapter 11: Special effects
  • About filters
    • Filter overview
    • About animating filters
    • About filters and Flash Player performance
    • Apply filters
    • Create preset filter libraries
    • Apply a drop shadow
    • Create a skewed drop shadow
    • Apply a blur
    • Apply a glow
    • Apply a bevel
    • Apply a gradient glow
    • Apply a gradient bevel
    • Apply the Adjust Color filter
  • About blend modes
    • Blend modes in Flash
    • Blend mode examples
    • Apply a blend mode
    • About importing filters and blends from Fireworks PNG files
    • Fireworks effects supported in Flash
    • Fireworks blend modes supported in Flash
• Chapter 12: Working with text
  • Text and fonts in Flash
    • About text
    • Flash Text Anti-Aliasing
    • Unicode text encoding in Flash applications
    • Font outlines and device fonts
    • Masking device fonts
    • About anti-aliasing text
    • Substituting missing fonts
    • Work with substitute fonts
  • Creating text
    • About text fields
    • Create and edit text fields
    • Check spelling
    • Embed and share fonts
    • Scrolling text
    • Make dynamic text scrollable
    • Text effects
    • Break text apart
    • Link horizontal text to a URL
  • Setting text attributes
    • About text attributes
    • Set a font, point size, style, and color
    • Set letter spacing, kerning, and character position
    • Set alignment, margins, indents, and line spacing
    • Work with text anti-aliasing
    • Make text selectable
    • Use device fonts
• Chapter 13: Creating multilanguage text
  • Creating multilanguage text
    • About multilanguage text
    • About fonts for Unicode-encoded text
    • Embedded fonts for dynamic or input text fields
    • XML font embedding table
    • Non-Unicode external files
    • Enter Asian characters on a Western keyboard
  • Encoding text formats
    • Text encoding
    • Unicode and Flash Player
  • Authoring multilanguage text
    • Workflow for authoring multilanguage text with the Strings panel
    • Select and remove languages for translation
    • Add strings to the Strings panel
    • Change the language displayed on the Stage
    • Editing strings in the Strings panel
    • Publishing multilanguage FLA files
    • Manually replace strings at publish time
    • Use automatic language detection with the default language
    • Use custom language detection
  • XML file format
    • About the XML file format
    • XLIFF examples
    • Exported XML file sample
    • Translate text in the Strings panel or an XML file
    • Import an XML file into the Strings panel
  • Multilanguage text and ActionScript
    • Use ActionScript to load external files
    • Create multilanguage documents using the #include action
    • Creating multilanguage documents by using text variables
    • Using the XMLConnector component to connect to external XML files
• Chapter 14: Working with sound
  • Using sounds in Flash
    • About sounds and Flash
    • Importing sounds
    • Import a sound
    • Add a sound to the Timeline
    • Synchronize a sound with animation
    • Add a sound to a button
    • Edit a sound
    • Using sounds in Flash Lite
  • Exporting Sounds
    • Compressing sounds for export
    • Compress a sound for export
    • Guidelines for exporting sound in Flash documents
  • Sound and ActionScript
    • Control sounds using behaviors
    • Control sounds with the ActionScript 2.0 Sound object
    • Accessing ID3 properties in mp3 files with Flash Player
    • About the ActionScript 2.0 onSoundComplete event
• Chapter 15: Working with video
  • Creating and publishing Flash Video
    • About video features in Flash
  • Importing and modifying Flash Video files
    • Import Flash Video files into the library
    • Controlling video playback using the Timeline
    • About progressively downloading video
    • Streaming video using Flash Media Server
    • Embedding video in a SWF file
    • About Linked QuickTime video
    • Change the properties of a video clip
    • Import video with Flash Media Server or FVSS
    • Embed video in a SWF file
    • Import linked QuickTime video files
    • Change the directory path of a linked QuickTime video
    • Edit video clips in the Video Import wizard
  • About digital video and Flash
    • Supported file formats for video
    • Audio support for MPEG video
    • Comparing the On2 VP6 and Sorenson Spark video codecs
    • Tips for creating Flash video
  • Encoding video
    • About Flash Video encoding methods
    • Select a video encoding profile
    • Specify advanced encoding settings
    • Specify advanced audio encoding settings
    • Embed cue points
    • Crop and resize video
  • Working with Premiere Pro and After Effects
    • Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Flash
    • Moving content between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Flash
    • Tips for creating Adobe Flash Video
    • Working with Flash and After Effects
  • Using ActionScript to play external Flash Video
    • Playing back external FLV files dynamically
    • Behaviors used in video playback
    • Control video playback using behaviors
    • About the FLVPlayback component
    • Configure the FLVPlayback component
    • Specify the contentPath parameter
    • Media components (Flash Player 6 and 7)
• Chapter 16: Creating e-learning content
  • Getting started with Flash e-learning
    • Flash e-learning overview
    • Requirements
    • Flash learning interactions
  • Including a Flash learning interaction in a document
    • Quiz templates and stand-alone interactions
    • Create a quiz with a quiz template
    • Set quiz parameters
    • Modify learning interactions in a quiz template
    • Configure a Learning Interaction component
    • Add learning interactions to a quiz template
    • Add learning interactions to a document (no quiz template)
    • Managing library assets for learning interactions
    • Remove a learning interaction from the Timeline
    • Check if a movie clip is broken apart
    • Test a quiz
  • Adding, naming, and registering assets
    • Adding, naming, and registering assets and Learning Interaction component instances
    • Name UI components (RadioButton, CheckBox, Button, and TextInput)
    • Name dynamic text fields
    • Register dynamic text fields and UI components
    • Name and register graphic distractors
    • Text field names
    • Asset name defaults
  • Configuring learning interactions
    • About distractors
    • Configure a Drag and Drop interaction
    • Add or remove Drag objects and Target objects
    • Configure a Fill In The Blank interaction
    • Configure a Hot Object interaction
    • Add or remove hot object distractors
    • Configure a Hot Spot interaction
    • Add or remove hot spot distractors
    • Configure a Multiple Choice interaction
    • Add or remove multiple-choice distractors
    • Configure a True or False interaction
    • Set feedback options for a learning interaction
    • Set Knowledge Track options for a learning interaction
    • Set navigation options for a learning interaction
    • Set control button labels for a learning interaction
  • Changing the appearance of a learning interaction
    • Changing the appearance of assets
    • Change the images in a graphical learning interaction
    • Changing buttons, check boxes, and radio buttons
    • Using components in a learning interaction
  • Tracking to AICC- or SCORM-compliant learning management systems
    • AICC- and SCORM-compliant learning management systems
    • AICC communication overview
    • SCORM communication overview
    • Prepare Flash learning interactions for web hosting
  • Extending learning interaction scripts
    • Accessing cumulative tracking data through the SessionArray
    • Tracking properties available in the SessionArray
    • Predefined property names
    • Basic structure of the Learning Interaction scripts and components
    • Review or edit the LToolboxClass script
• Chapter 17: Creating accessible content
  • About accessible content
    • Worldwide accessibility standards
    • Adobe Flash Accessibility web page
    • Understanding screen reader technology
      • Platform requirements
    • Flash and Microsoft Active Accessibility (Windows only)
    • Basic accessibility support in Flash Player
    • Accessibility for hearing-impaired users
    • Provide animation accessibility for the visually impaired
    • Testing accessible content
  • Using Flash to enter accessibility information for screen readers
    • Flash for screen readers and accessibility
    • The Flash Accessibility panel
    • Selecting names for buttons, text fields, and entire Flash applications
    • Provide a name for an object
    • Make an entire Flash application accessible
    • Viewing and creating tab order and reading order
    • Create a tab-order index for keyboard navigation in the Accessibility panel
    • Using sound with screen readers
  • Specifying advanced accessibility options for screen readers
    • Turn off automatic labeling for an object and specify a name
    • Hide an object from the screen reader
    • Create and name a keyboard shortcut
  • Creating accessibility with ActionScript
    • About ActionScript and accessibility
    • Implementing screen reader detection with the Accessibility.isActive() method
    • Use ActionScript to create a tab order for accessible objects
    • Using accessible components
• Chapter 18: Working with screens
  • Screen-based documents and the screen authoring environment
    • About the screen authoring environment
    • Slide presentations and screens, and form applications and screens
    • Document structure and hierarchy
    • Using preloaders with screen-based documents
  • Working with screens
    • Add screens to a document
    • Use the Screen Outline pane
    • View the context menu for a screen
    • Using timelines with screens
    • Using the Movie Explorer with screens
    • Select, move, and edit screens
    • About screen names
    • Undoing and redoing commands with screens
    • Use Find And Replace in a document with screens
    • Accessibility in the Flash screens authoring environment
  • Adding content to screens
    • Adding media content to screens
    • Set properties and parameters for a screen
    • Specify the ActionScript class and registration point of a screen
    • Setting parameters for a screen
    • Specify parameter settings for a screen
    • Creating controls and transitions for screens with behaviors
    • Add controls to screens using behaviors
    • Adding transitions to screens using behaviors
    • Add a transition behavior
    • Screen instance names, class names, and registration points
    • How screens interact with ActionScript
    • Using components with screens
• Chapter 19: ActionScript
  • Working with ActionScript
    • About ActionScript
    • Writing ActionScript
    • Actions panel overview
    • Script window overview
    • Tools in the Actions panel and Script window
    • Set ActionScript preferences
  • Script Assist mode and behaviors
    • About Script Assist mode
    • Use Script Assist to write ActionScript
    • About behaviors
  • Writing and managing scripts
    • Use code hints
    • Triggering code hints
    • Format code
    • Comment sections of code
    • Use syntax coloring
    • Use line numbers and word wrap
    • Collapse sections of code
    • Adding ActionScript with shortcut keys
    • Display hidden characters
    • Find text in a script
    • Check syntax and punctuation
    • Encoding for imported and exported scripts
    • Import and export scripts
    • Pin scripts in the Actions panel
    • Insert target paths
  • Debugging ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0
    • Debugging your ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 scripts
    • Debug a local SWF file
    • Debug a remote ActionScript 2.0 SWF file
    • Display and modify the values of variables in the Debugger
    • Use the Watch list
    • Display movie clip properties and change editable properties
    • Set and remove breakpoints
    • Stepping through lines of code
    • Control compiler warnings
    • Output panel overview
    • Navigate to errors in code
    • List a SWF file’s objects and variables
    • Debugging text field objects
    • Use the trace statement
  • Debugging ActionScript 3.0
    • About the ActionScript 3.0 debugger
    • Enter debugging mode
    • Set and remove breakpoints
    • Step through lines of code
    • Display and examine scripts in the call stack
    • Display and modify variable values
    • Control compiler warnings
    • Navigate to errors in code
    • Debug a remote ActionScript 3.0 SWF file
  • ActionScript publish settings
    • Modify ActionScript publish settings
    • Modify the classpath
    • Declare a document class
    • Customizing context menus in Flash documents
    • Class files and configuration files
    • Configuration folders installed with Flash
• Chapter 20: Publishing Flash content
  • Publishing Flash documents
    • Publishing overview
    • Edit a SWF file from Dreamweaver in Flash
  • Using Flash Player
    • The Flash Player application
    • Playing Flash SWF files
    • Control applications from Flash Player
    • Set publish options for the Flash SWF file format
    • Set the classpath for ActionScript 2.0
    • Set the classpath for ActionScript 3.0
    • Specify settings that create HTML documents with embedded Flash content
    • Configure publish settings for Flash Player detection
    • Set publish settings for GIF files
    • Specify publish settings for JPEG files
    • Specify publish settings for PNG files
    • Specify publish settings for QuickTime videos
    • Preview the publishing format and settings
  • Developing applications for mobile devices
    • Publishing Flash Lite documents
    • Using Adobe Device Central with Flash
  • Configuring a web server for Flash
    • Adding MIME types
    • Configure a server for Flash Player
  • Flash security features
    • Publishing secure Flash documents
  • Using publish profiles
    • About publish profiles
    • Create a publish profile
    • Duplicate, modify, or delete a publish profile
    • Export a publish profile
    • Import a publish profile
  • HTML publishing templates
    • About HTML publishing templates
    • Customize HTML publishing templates
    • Using HTML template variables
    • Create an image map
    • Creating text and URL reports
    • Using shorthand template variables
    • Embedding search metadata
    • Sample HTML template
  • Editing Flash HTML settings
    • About the HTML document
    • Using object and embed tags
    • Parameters and attributes
• Chapter 21: Exporting from Flash
  • About exporting from Flash
  • Exporting Flash content, images, and video
    • Export Flash content
    • Update Flash content for Dreamweaver
    • About export file formats
    • Adobe Illustrator Sequence and Illustrator Image
    • Animated GIF, GIF Sequence, and GIF Image
    • Bitmap (BMP) Sequence and Bitmap Image
    • DXF Sequence and AutoCAD DXF Image
    • Enhanced Metafile (EMF) Sequence and Image (Windows)
    • Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) 3.0 with Preview
    • Flash document (SWF)
    • Flash video (FLV)
    • Export a Flash video file
    • JPEG Sequence and JPEG Image
    • PICT Sequence and PICT Image (Macintosh)
    • PNG Sequence and PNG Image
    • About QuickTime
    • Exporting QuickTime
    • WAV audio (Windows)
    • Windows AVI (Windows)
    • Windows Metafile Image and Windows Metafile Sequence
• Chapter 22: Printing with Flash
  • Printing from the Flash authoring tool
    • Print from Flash documents
    • Printing from SWF files at runtime using ActionScript 2.0
    • Controlling printing
    • Using the ActionScript 2.0 PrintJob class
    • Build a print job
    • Starting a print job
    • Adding pages to a print job
    • Specifying a target
    • Print or delete the print job
    • Printing frames independent of the PrintJob class
    • Specifying a print area when not using the PrintJob object
    • Specify a print area when printing frames
    • Using the print() function when not using the PrintJob object
    • Change the printed background color
    • Use frame labels to disable printing
    • Print from the Flash Player context menu
    • Publishing a document with printable frames
• Chapter 23: Best practices
  • Structuring FLA files
    • Organizing timelines and the library
    • Using scenes
    • Saving files and version control
  • Organizing ActionScript in an application
    • Keeping actions together
    • Attaching code to objects
  • Behaviors conventions
    • About behaviors conventions
    • Comparing timeline code with object code
    • When to use behaviors
    • Using behaviors consistently
    • Sharing files that use behaviors
  • Video conventions
    • About video conventions
    • Using video in an application
    • Exporting, compressing, and hosting FLV files
    • Troubleshooting video
  • Projects and version control guidelines
    • About projects and version control
    • Administering projects
    • Authoring projects
    • Changing structure
  • Flash application authoring guidelines
    • About Flash application guidelines
    • Collecting and formatting data
    • Sending and processing data
    • Adding data loading and validation
    • Using error handling and debugging
    • Organizing files and storing code
    • Using the MVC design pattern
    • Creating secure applications
  • Accessibility guidelines
    • About accessibility guidelines
    • Creating accessible sites
    • Exposing SWF file structure and navigation
    • Controlling descriptions and repetition
    • Using color
    • Ordering, tabbing, and the keyboard
    • Handling audio, video, and animation
    • Accessibility and extending Flash
    • Test files and make changes
  • Advertising with Flash
    • Using recommended dimensions
    • Creating SWF file advertisements
    • Tracking advertisements
    • Testing your ads
  • Optimizing FLA files for SWF output
    • Optimize Flash documents
    • Speed up document display
    • Optimizing graphics and animation
    • Animation frame rate and performance
    • Filters and SWF file performance
    • Bitmap caching and SWF file performance
    • Working with components in Flash Player
    • Optimizing component styles and performance
    • Using runtime shared libraries
    • Displaying special characters
    • Test document download performance
  • Tips for creating content for mobile devices
    • Creating Flash content for use on mobile devices
    • Flash Lite guidelines for animation in mobile devices
    • Flash Lite bitmap and vector graphics in mobile devices
    • Set compression of Flash Lite bitmaps for mobile devices
    • Optimizing Flash Lite frames for mobile devices
    • Optimizing ActionScript for Flash Lite content on mobile devices
    • Managing Flash Lite file memory for mobile devices
    • Loading data for mobile devices in Flash Lite
    • Exclude classes from compilation for Flash Lite
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