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Adobe Flash Professional CS3 User Manual (527 pages)

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English

Table of contents

PROFESSIONAL

1

Copyright

2

Contents

3

Chapter 1: Getting started

7

Using Help

8

Searching Flash Help

9

User Guide

10

Resources

12

Flash CS3 Professional videos

13

Installed resources

14

Bridge Home

15

Adobe Design Center

16

Adobe Developer Center

17

Customer support

17

Downloads

17

What’s new

18

Chapter 2: Workspace

21

Workspace overview

22

Hide or show all panels

23

Display panel menu options

23

Customize the workspace

24

Move panels

25

Manipulate panel groups

25

Stack free-floating panels

26

Resize or minimize panels

26

Minimize button

27

Panels collapsed to icons

27

Panels expanded from icons

27

❖ In Interface preferences:

28

Welcome screen overview

29

Using the Stage

29

Use context menus

33

Set preferences in Flash

33

Set text preferences

35

Set warning preferences

35

Set General preferences

35

• Resolution Enter a value

36

Customize keyboard shortcuts

37

The Timeline

39

Move the playhead

41

About layers

42

View layers and layer folders

43

Edit layers and layer folders

44

Using Flash authoring panels

46

Undo, redo, and history

54

Run commands

57

Get more commands

57

Working with Flash documents

58

Save Flash documents

61

Device Central

62

• Color Mode: RGB/8bit

64

• Resolution: 72 ppi

64

• Color Mode: RGB

64

• Raster Resolution: 72 ppi

65

Working with projects

67

Adding media to the library

71

Working with timelines

75

About relative paths

79

Working with scenes

81

Use scenes

82

Find and Replace

83

Find and replace fonts

84

Find and replace colors

84

Find and replace symbols

85

Templates

86

To use templates

87

Chapter 4: Adobe Version Cue

89

3. Add files to a project

92

A B C D E

94

View Version Cue information

95

FLASH CS3

100

See also

101

❖ Do one of the following:

113

Version Cue versions

115

About offline files

118

Edit offline files

118

A. Tabs B. Controls

121

Back up and restore projects

127

Version Cue PDF reviews

131

Manage PDF reviews

132

Keyboard shortcuts

137

Placing artwork into Flash

139

Pasting Illustrator artwork

142

Symbol workflow

143

About AutoCAD DXF files

146

AI File Importer preferences

150

Text import options

153

Path import options

153

Image import options

153

Group import options

153

Exchanging movies

154

Import Photoshop PSD files

156

Text layer import preferences

158

Photoshop Import options

159

Importing text objects

160

Importing shape objects

160

Imported bitmaps

162

Import bitmaps at runtime

163

Apply a bitmap as a fill

163

Chapter 6: Drawing

166

Bitmap graphics

167

About overlapping shapes

168

Combining objects

170

Specify drawing preferences

170

Drawing with the Pen tool

179

Add or delete anchor points

182

Adjust anchor points on paths

183

Straighten and smooth lines

185

Snapping

187

Turn on Snap Alignment

189

Working with color

190

Color panel options

191

Modifying color palettes

192

Strokes, fills, and gradients

193

Miter, round, and bevel joins

194

Applying a Miter limit

194

Creating gradients

195

Radial Gradient controls

198

About graphic objects

202

Selecting objects

203

Hide selection highlighting

205

Moving and copying objects

205

Move objects

205

Copy transformed objects

206

Arranging objects

207

Transforming objects

209

Transform objects freely

210

Distort objects

211

Skew objects

213

Flip objects

213

Restore transformed objects

213

Working with symbols

214

Duplicate symbols

217

Edit symbols

217

Working with symbol instances

219

Library assets

223

Using shared library assets

225

Update or replace symbols

226

Working with button symbols

227

Scaling and caching symbols

229

• www.adobe.com/go/vid0204

230

• www.adobe.com/go/vid0205

230

Symbols and ActionScript

231

Animation basics

235

About frame rates

236

Use onion skinning

238

Move an entire animation

239

Copy and paste a motion tween

239

Paste motion tween properties

239

Copy motion as ActionScript

240

Extend still images

241

About mask layers

241

Using Timeline effects

243

Timeline effect settings

244

Tweened animation

246

Tween motion along a path

251

Unsupported easing curves

254

❖ Drag it off the Stage

255

Chapter 11: Special effects

256

Apply filters

257

Apply a drop shadow

259

Create a skewed drop shadow

259

Apply a blur

260

Apply a glow

260

Apply a bevel

261

Apply a gradient glow

261

Apply a gradient bevel

262

Apply the Adjust Color filter

262

About blend modes

263

Chapter 12: Working with text

267

Substituting missing fonts

270

Work with substitute fonts

270

Creating text

271

Create and edit text fields

272

Check spelling

274

Embed and share fonts

275

Setting text attributes

278

Work with horizontal text

279

Work with text anti-aliasing

280

Creating multilanguage text

282

XML font embedding table

284

Encoding text formats

286

Authoring multilanguage text

288

XML file format

292

Exported XML file sample

293

Using sounds in Flash

298

Add a sound to a button

301

Edit a sound

301

Exporting Sounds

302

Speech compression option

304

Sound and ActionScript

305

About video features in Flash

307

About Linked QuickTime video

311

About digital video and Flash

316

• Modem: 160 x 120

318

• Dual ISDN: 192 x 144

318

• T1/DSL/cable: 320 x 240

318

Encoding video

319

Strive for simplicity

324

Know your audience data rate

324

Select the proper frame rate

324

Stream for best performance

325

Remove noise and interlacing

325

Flash e-learning overview

332

Requirements

332

Flash learning interactions

332

Set quiz parameters

334

Test a quiz

341

Name dynamic text fields

342

Text field names

342

Asset name defaults

343

About distractors

344

SCORM communication overview

355

Predefined property names

357

4 Review or edit the script

358

About accessible content

359

The Flash Accessibility panel

363

Provide a name for an object

365

• Screens

367

Using accessible components

372

Working with screens

375

Adding content to screens

380

Loader.load()

383

Chapter 19: ActionScript

387

Script window overview

390

About behaviors

395

Writing and managing scripts

396

Triggering code hints

398

Format code

399

Comment sections of code

400

Collapse sections of code

402

Check syntax and punctuation

404

Import and export scripts

404

A pinned script

405

Debug a local SWF file

408

Use the Watch list

410

Set and remove breakpoints

411

The breakpoints XML file

412

Control compiler warnings

413

Output panel overview

414

Navigate to errors in code

414

Debugging text field objects

415

Debugging ActionScript 3.0

417

Step through lines of code

418

ActionScript publish settings

420

Declare a document class

422

First Run folder

423

Publishing Flash documents

425

Using Flash Player

426

3 Click GIF

433

Adding MIME types

439

Flash security features

440

Using publish profiles

441

HTML publishing templates

442

Editing Flash HTML settings

446

SeamlessTabbing parameter

453

About exporting from Flash

454

About export file formats

455

Print from Flash documents

462

Controlling printing

463

Build a print job

464

Starting a print job

464

Adding pages to a print job

465

Specifying a target

466

Print or delete the print job

467

Chapter 23: Best practices

471

Using scenes

472

Behaviors conventions

474

When to use behaviors

475

Video conventions

476

Troubleshooting video

478

Authoring projects

480

Changing structure

480

Sending and processing data

481

Using the MVC design pattern

483

Creating secure applications

484

Accessibility guidelines

485

Advertising with Flash

489

When to use bitmap caching

495

Displaying special characters

498

MovieClip

502

1 Create a new XML file

507

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