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understanding Publishing
Publishing is the process that creates the required file or files to play your final
Flash project for your viewers. Keep in mind that Flash Professional CS6 is the
authoring application, which is a different environment from where your viewers
experience your movie. In Flash Professional CS6, you author content. In the target
environment, such as a desktop browser or a mobile device, your viewers watch
the content when it plays back, or runs. So developers make a distinction between
“author-time” and “run-time.”
Adobe provides various runtime environments for playing back your Flash con-
tent. The most common for a browser running on the desktop is the Flash Player.
Flash Player 11.2 is the latest version and supports all the new features in Flash
Professional CS6. The Flash Player is available as a free plug-in from the Adobe
Web site for all the major browsers and platforms. In Google Chrome, the Flash
Player comes pre-installed and updates automatically.
Adobe AIR is another runtime environment to play Flash content. AIR runs Flash
content directly from your desktop, without the need for a browser. When you
publish your content for AIR, you make it available as an installer that creates a
stand-alone application. You can also publish applications that can be installed and
run on Android devices and even iOS mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPad,
whose browsers do not support the Flash Player.
Knowing your audience and understanding the target playback environment is
essential for your success.
Publishing for the Web
When you want to publish a movie for the Web, you target a Web browser’s Flash
Player. Flash content for the Web requires a SWF file for the Flash Player and an
HTML document that tells the Web browser how to display the Flash content. You
need to upload both files to your Web server along with any other files your SWF
file references (such as FLV or F4V video files and skins). By default, the Publish
command saves all the required files to the same folder.
P Note: When you
change the settings in
the Publish Settings
dialog box, they
are saved with the
document.
You can specify different options for publishing a movie, including whether to
detect the version of Flash Player installed on the viewer’s computer.
specifying Flash file settings
You can determine how Flash publishes the SWF file, including which version of
Flash Player it requires, which version of ActionScript it uses, and how the movie
is displayed and plays.
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