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Saving an XFL document
You’ve already saved your Flash movie as an FLA file, but another option is to save
your movie in an uncompressed format known as XFL. The XFL format is actually
a folder of files rather than a single document. The XFL file format exposes the con-
tents of your Flash movie so that other developers or animators can easily edit your
file or manage its assets without having to open the movie in the Flash application.
For example, all the imported photos in your Library panel appear in a Library
folder within the XFL format. You can edit the library photos or swap them with
new photos. Flash will make the substitutions in the movie automatically.
1 Choose File > Save As.
2 Name the file 01_workingcopy.xfl and choose Flash CS6 Uncompressed
Document (*.xfl). Click Save.
Flash creates a folder named 01_workingcopy, which contains all the files for
your Flash movie.
3 Close the Flash document by choosing File > Close.
Modifying an XFL document
In this exercise, you’ll modify the Library folder of the XFL document to make
changes to your Flash movie.
1 Open the LIBRARY folder inside the 01_workingcopy folder.
The folder contains all the photos you imported into your Flash movie.
2 Select the photo3.jpg file and delete it.
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Lesson 1
Getting Acquainted