Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New

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Flash Professional CS5 software is the industry-leading environment for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution. Design expressive content, write code precisely and efficiently, and deliver superior-quality video to audiences practically everywhere.

A powerful new text engine, expanded support for mobile and consumer devices, and enhanced coding tools are among the new features in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 software, the industry-leading interactive authoring tool. Flash Professional CS5 offers unrivaled integration with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, and After Effects® software, creating a design workflow that extends the potential of your interactive content across media formats. Integrated support of Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR®, and mobile authoring allows you to easily and consistently deliver interactive content, advertising, and video virtually anywhere.

Flash Professional is the flagship product for designing and developing content for the Adobe Flash Platform, and is an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and Master Collection software. Combined with the numerous benefits of these Creative Suite 5 editions, the features in Flash Professional provide a comprehensive toolset for design, web, mobile, and video workflows.

With the new text engine in Flash Professional CS5, you can take advantage of rich typographical controls, including threaded and multi-column text.

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5Create and deliver rich interactive content

The new Code Snippets panel lets you inject prebuilt code into projects, so you can work faster, freeing up more time for creativity.

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Top features•Newtextengine(Page3)

•Abilitytodistributecontentvirtuallyanywhere(Page4)

•XML-basedFLAsourcefiles(Page5)

•CodeSnippetspanel(Page5)

•EnhancedActionScripteditor(Page6)

•ImprovedCreativeSuiteintegration(Page6)

•FlashBuilderintegration(Page6)

•SpringforBones(Page6)

•Videoimprovements(Page7)

•NewDecodrawingtools(Page7)

With Adobe Flash Professional CS5, you can:

Design with expression. Communicate your vision without sacrifice and create interactive content with typographic precision, design fidelity, and expressive motion. Achieve print-quality typography by using the new Text Layout Framework. Use new spring attributes for the Bones tool to create more realistic inverse kinematic effects. Use new brushes for the Deco tool to easily draw shapes and add advanced animation effects, and add interactivity directly by injecting extensible ActionScript® code snippets.

Write code quickly and easily. Quickly and efficiently write code thanks to powerful authoring tools and integration with development software. Use timesaving libraries of extensible code snippets and an improved code editor with custom class code hinting and completion—and use Adobe Flash Builder™ software as your full-featured ActionScript editor. Leverage integration with Adobe Device Central for enhanced testing and debugging of content for mobile and consumer devices.

Deliver in fewer steps and in more places. Save time and reduce the number of required steps when moving content from design to development and ultimately to delivery. A new XML-based file format enables teams to easily collaborate, and support for the FXG graphics format provides improved integration with Illustrator and other Adobe Creative Suite 5 software. Streamlined video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing means designers and developers can deliver expressive content more easily across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution.

Who uses Flash Professional?Interactive designers use Flash Professional to create content with expressive motion. With the new Text Layout Framework, an XML-based file format that enables teams to easily collaborate, timesaving libraries of extensible code snippets, and new motion attributes to control spring with the Bones tool, they create immersive interactive web content and experiences.

Web designers use Adobe Flash Professional to create expressive interactive content with design fidelity. Using timesaving libraries of extensible code snippets, a new XML-based file format that enables teams to easily collaborate, and improved integration with other Adobe Creative Suite software, they create free-form and immersive interactive web content and experiences for delivery virtually anywhere.

Web application developers use Flash Professional to save time and reduce the number of steps required for incorporating data and deploying applications. Using extensible code snippets, custom class code hinting and completion, and Adobe Flash Builder software as a full-featured ActionScript editor, they provide data connectivity for websites and build cross-platform rich Internet applications for delivery virtually anywhere.

Graphic designers use Flash Professional to create expressive interactive content with typographic precision. Using the new Text Layout Framework, brushes for the Deco tool to easily draw shapes and add advanced animation effects, ready-to-use code snippets that teach basic ActionScript, and enhanced integration between Flash Professional and other Adobe Creative Suite software, they create free-form interactive content for delivery virtually anywhere.

Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists use Flash Professional to create interactive content with design fidelity and expressive motion. Augmenting their work by using new motion attributes to control spring as part of the Bones tool and streamlined video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing, they deliver short-form video content, advanced animations, and professional-quality productions for delivery virtually anywhere.

Video editors use Flash Professional to create immersive experiences with live-action video footage, still images, sound, and music. Improved integration with other Adobe Creative Suite software, along with streamlined video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing, helps them assemble compelling stories, pitch concepts, and create short films and animations for delivery virtually anywhere.

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Contents

Who uses Flash Professional? 2

Top new features of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 3

New text engine 3

Ability to distribute content virtually anywhere 4

XML-based FLA source files 5

Code Snippets panel 5

Enhanced ActionScript editor 6

Improved Creative Suite integration 6

Flash Builder integration 6

Spring for Bones 6

Video improvements 7

New Deco drawing tools 7

Still using Flash CS3 Professional? 8

About Adobe Systems Incorporated 8

Adobe Flash authoring tools 9

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Top new features of Adobe Flash Professional CS5

New text engineFlash Professional CS5 adds support for the new Text Layout Framework built into Flash Player 10, enabling you to use print-quality typographic functionality and take the experiences you create to new heights. Support for the Text Layout Framework provides rich, multilingual typographic control that previously was not available in Flash Professional, as well as a comprehensive set of APIs to manipulate text content, layout, and markup. The new text engine in Flash Professional CS5 also maintains layout and text formatting with greater fidelity when importing content from Adobe InDesign software and other Adobe products.

Print-quality typographic controlDesigners have come to expect rich typographic control in applications like InDesign and Illustrator. However, it’s been extremely difficult or even impossible to set professional-level typography on the web—until now. With the Text Layout Framework support in Flash Professional CS5, designers can take advantage of rich typographical controls, including:

• Advanced text styling such as kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, superscript, subscript, discretion-ary hyphens, margins, hypertext, baseline shift, typographic case, digit case (oldstyle/lining figures), and digit width (proportional/tabular figures).

• Advanced text-layout controls including threaded text blocks; the selection, editing and flowing of text across multiple columns; linked images; text wrap; and inline images (supporting PNG, JPG, SWF, or any Flash Player DisplayObject). Tab stops and CSS anti-aliasing are also supported.

Global language supportThe Text Layout Framework brings advanced multilingual typographic and layout features to Flash Professional CS5. This support includes the ability to display and edit not only right-to-left scripts, but also top-to-bottom scripts, and those that often use a mixture of left-to-right and right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.

The new text engine offers additional features for East Asian typography, including an East Asian justifier, vertical text support, and Tate-Chu-Yoko, or blocks of horizontal text embedded into vertical runs of text.

Advanced inline text editingWorking with text inside of Flash Professional is now a far more efficient and productive experience. In addition to cut, copy, paste, find, replace, and spell-check functionality and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing (Ctrl/Command, Home/End, double-click), a new Selection mode allows text to be treated as read-only, read-select, or read-write.

Advanced typographic features are accessed on the stage or through the Properties panel.

ArabicBengali

BulgarianCatalan

Chinese (simplified)Chinese (traditional)

CroatianCzech

DanishEnglish

EstonianFinnishFrench

GermanGreek

GujaratiHebrew

HindiHungarian

ItalianJapanese

KoreanLatvian

LithuanianMarathi

NorwegianPersian

PolishPortuguese

PunjabiRomanian

RussianSlovak

SlovenianSpanishSwedish

TamilTelugu

ThaiTurkish

UkrainianUrdu

VietnameseThe Text Layout Framework offers

support for more than 30 languages.

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Advanced rendering supportWhile offering advanced typographic control to designers is important, you want to know that what you see on your screen matches your viewers’ experience as well. The Text Layout Framework builds on the history of consistent high-quality playback and display across multiple devices in Flash Player by adding support for transparency and for device and embedded fonts (including anti-aliasing of embedded fonts). A new embedded font format (DefineFont4) provides improved typography features, international support, and reduced file sizes.

Ability to distribute content virtually anywhereDeliver consistently across screens of virtually any size and use Adobe Device Central for enhanced device testing. The Distribution service available separately through Adobe Flash Platform Services* offers free and paid methods for distributing applications to social networks, mobile devices, and desktops. It also enables developers and businesses to track the distribution of and user engagement with their applications, and enables monetization of applications through ad hosting.

• Deliver to mobile and consumer devices. Deliver content that plays back on millions of devices worldwide. Packager for iPhone preview, included with Flash Professional CS5, compiles ActionScript bytecode into native iPhone application code. (The preview is also included in the Adobe AIR® SDK.) iPhone applications are distributed as iPhone application installer (IPA) files, via the iTunes store.

• Deliver to desktop computers. Take advantage of the ubiquity of Flash Player within browsers and Adobe AIR for extended support on the desktop. Content displays with a consistent look and feel across operating systems and browsers.

Use the new text engine in Flash Professional CS5 to set professional-quality text in your layouts.

Singular experience, multiple devices. TheOpenScreenProjectisanindustry-wideinitiative,ledbyAdobeandbackedbyotherindustryleaderswhoallshareoneclearvision:enableconsumerstoengagewithrich,virtuallyseamlessInternetexperiencesacrosspracticallyanydevice.

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AdobeDeviceCentralCS5simplifiestheproductionofcontentformobilephonesandconsumerelectronicsdevices.Savetimebyautomatingtestingandsimulatingthenetworkperformanceofmobilecontentacrossadynamicallyupdatedlibraryofdeviceprofiles.NowwithsupportforHTMLandthelatestversionsofFlashPlayer,AdobeDeviceCentralhelpsdevelopersdeliverengagingexperiencestomillionsofmobilesubscribersandconsumersacrossmanyuniquedevices.

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When designing mobile content in Flash Professional CS5, you can use the Test Movie command to launch Adobe Device Central CS5 and test things like network performance and accelerometer controls.

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XML-based FLA source filesFlash Professional CS5 uses an XML-based implementation of the FLA file format called XFL, offering improved cross-product integration and workflow productivity. This compact and efficient file format both accurately maintains data in a Flash document and makes the individual elements easier to manage and use.

For example, an image that is currently used in a Flash project could be checked out of a source control system, updated, and checked back in. The next time you open the FLA project file, you would instantly see the updated image without having to manually import it into the project.

With better support for multiuser environments and cross-product compatibility, the XML-based format in Flash Professional offers the following benefits:

• The uncompressed format allows several users on a team to work on the same project simultaneously—no more having to split the project into multiple FLA files.

• Integration with source control systems is now possible because each team member can work on separate assets in the XFL package, eliminating the need to resolve differences.

• Mobile developers can work on the same files as other developers. (In the past, mobile content could not load other SWF files.)

Using XML-based FLA source files, Flash Professional CS5 provides a richer environment in which to exchange data with other key Adobe Creative Suite tools, including After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Adobe Encore®, and Flash Catalyst.

The replacement of the file-format structure from FLA to XFL is transparent, allowing you to work with project files in the same way, only with more control.

Code Snippets panelFlash Professional CS5 provides a new way to quickly include code for things like timeline navigation, actions, animation, audio and video, and event handlers with the Code Snippets panel. By injecting prebuilt code into projects, you can work faster, freeing up more time for creativity.

For example, the sample code snippets allow you to create interactive buttons without extensive code experience. Code snippets also contain helpful comments and clear instructions right in the code and can greatly reduce the ActionScript 3.0 learning curve by helping new users learn how the ActionScript language works. In addition, because the panel is extensible, you can create and share snippets with others, helping to reduce overall production time.

Code snippets help you learn how to code on your own. When you apply a snippet, clear instructions help you customize the code to your specific needs.

The Code Snippets panel in Flash Professional CS5 makes including ActionScript code in your project much, much easier.

In their uncompressed format, FLA files enable multiple users to work on the same projects.

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Enhanced ActionScript editorIncrease development speed with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion, and reference your own code or external code libraries more efficiently. Novice developers can start projects and have code hinting assist them as they try to grasp the fundamentals of the ActionScript language. Flash Professional CS5 can automatically write the import statement for libraries, and more experienced and advanced developers can more quickly reference their own code or any external code libraries they are using.

Improved Creative Suite integrationFlash Professional is an integral part of all Creative Suite 5 Premium editions. Flash Professional CS5 adds more ways to work directly with other Creative Suite 5 components for a more efficient workflow, including:

• Edit bitmaps in Photoshop using the new Edit With Photoshop CS5 command

• Export complex graphics via the FXG format, which you can open in Illustrator

• Place finished SWF files into Flash Catalyst projects

• Use Flash Builder as your ActionScript code-authoring environment

• Open content from InDesign with greater text fidelity

• Import FXG files from Fireworks

• Open content from After Effects and retain editing flexibility

Flash Builder integrationAdobe Flash Builder (formerly Adobe Flex® Builder™) is a professional Eclipse-based developer tool that enables intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual design of the user interface and behavior for Flex applications. Rather than having to choose between one integrated development environment (IDE) and another, you can now write your ActionScript code in Flash Builder and then test, debug, and publish your content in Flash Professional.

• Test Movie and Debug Movie. When invoked, these commands bring up Flash Professional CS5, open the FLA file that has been set in the properties of the current project, and test or debug the movie. Once the SWF window is closed (or the debug session is ended, in the case of Debug Movie), focus is returned to Flash Builder (and the FLA file remains open). You can also set breakpoints in Flash Builder that work in the Flash Professional debugger.

• Publish Movie. When invoked, this command brings up Flash Professional CS5 and publishes the target FLA file. Once the export is complete, if compiler errors were found, Flash Professional is brought to the front with its Compiler Errors panel open and the errors listed. If no errors were found, a dialog box in Flash Builder indicates that the Publish request was successful.

Spring for BonesWith Flash Professional CS5, Adobe integrates the power of a dynamic physics engine into the Inverse Kinematics (IK) system. This engine allows new users to create lifelike animation with ease, and gives expert users powerful functionality that is supported for both runtime and authortime. Spring gives IK animation movement that is 100% configurable, so you can now get realistic multi-object interactions that don’t look robotic and rigid.

Spring, a property of an IK Bone element, consists of two attributes: Strength and Damping.

• Strength sets the amount of spring. When the value is greater than zero, the bone reacts with a physical movement that is proportional to the Strength value and the overall movement.

• Damping adds resistance to the Strength value. This affects the rate of decay of the spring, which in turn determines the duration between the initial movement and the time when the IK Bone returns to its rest position.

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Spring for Bones is extremely powerful while being very easy to understand and use, and provides a more realistic movement quality that reacts when an IK Bone is moved, and then incrementally diminishes over time.

Video improvementsWith integrated support for content created with Adobe Premiere® Pro or Adobe After Effects software, it’s easy to work with video content directly in Flash Professional CS5.

Streamline embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and the ability to define cue points directly in the Properties panel. Now, when you have an FLV playback component on the stage, you can see the video on the stage, whereas previously you had to test the movie. Flash Professional CS5 also includes Adobe Media Encoder, enabling you to convert just about any file format to FLV or F4V.

You can scrub video and view the timecode directly on the stage, making it easy to add custom cue points.

New Deco drawing toolsFlash Professional CS5 extends the functionality of the dynamic Deco brush tools, enabling you to easily draw shapes and add advanced animation effects. These new brushes include:

• Particle System. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain.

• 3D, Decorated, and new Grid brushes. Draw stylized lines or create patterns with multiple objects at once.

• Tree, Flame, Lightning, and Building brushes. Use specialized tools to add and customize these stylized shapes.

Specifying Strength and Damping values for each IK bone in an armature can give your animation lifelike quality.

Setting cue points in the Properties panel enables you to trigger actions during video playback.

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System requirements Windows• Intel®Pentium®4orAMDAthlon®64

processor

•Microsoft®Windows®XPwithServicePack2(ServicePack3recommended);WindowsVista®HomePremium,Business,Ultimate,orEnterprisewithServicePack1;orWindows7

•1GBofRAM

•3.5GBofavailablehard-diskspaceforinstallation;additionalfreespacerequiredduringinstallation(cannotinstallonremovableflash-basedstoragedevices)

•1024x768display(1280x800recommended)with16-bitvideocard

•DVD-ROMdrive

•QuickTime7.6.2softwarerequiredformultimediafeatures

•BroadbandInternetconnectionrequiredforonlineservices*

Mac OS•MulticoreIntelprocessor

•MacOSXv10.5.7orv10.6

•1GBofRAM

•4GBofavailablehard-diskspaceforinstallation;additionalfreespacerequiredduringinstallation(cannotinstallonavolumethatusesacase-sensitivefilesystemoronremovableflash-basedstoragedevices)

•1024x768display(1280x800recommended)with16-bitvideocard

•DVD-ROMdrive

•QuickTime7.6.2softwarerequiredformultimediafeatures

•BroadbandInternetconnectionrequiredforonlineservices*

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Still using Flash CS3 Professional?If you’re still using Flash CS3 Professional, upgrading to Flash Professional CS5 also gives you the chance to catch up on all the great features added in Flash CS4 Professional that allow you to design with ease and efficiency, explore new creative possibilities, collaborate across workflows, and deliver for a wide audience. Upgrading to Flash Professional CS5 will also give you the features and benefits of Flash CS4 Professional, including:

• Object-based animation. Gain control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation, which applies tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.

• 3D transformation. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformations to any object.

• Sophisticated video tools. Leverage the Adobe Media Encoder to benefit from advanced video capabilities including embedded cue points, alpha channel support, and high-quality codecs.

• Authoring for Adobe AIR. Deliver interactive experiences to the desktop with new integrated capability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime.

• New Adobe Creative Suite interface. Boost your efficiency with intuitive panel docking and spring-loaded behaviors that streamline your interaction with tools throughout the Adobe Creative Suite editions.

About Adobe Systems IncorporatedAdobe is the world’s leading provider of software solutions to create, manage, and deliver high-impact, reliable digital content. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Adobe Flash authoring toolsWith Creative Suite 5, Adobe delivers a variety of tools with the capability to author interactive content for the Adobe Flash Platform. Each project you work on is unique, presenting various requirements and specifications regarding design, development, and deployment. This comparison chart is a quick reference that will help you choose the best tool or tools for what you want to accomplish.

Flash Professional Flash Catalyst Flash Builder

Typical projects Rich content, interactive video content, advertising, games

User interfaces, rich Internet applications, microsites, prototypes, widgets

Rich Internet applications

Product description An authoring tool that enables you to create immersive experiences that can include video content

An interaction design tool that enables you to transform artwork into functional interfaces and interactive content

An integrated development environment (IDE) that enables you to develop rich Internet applications

Project approach Free-form design Structured interaction design Structured development

Project organization Timeline and frames Pages and states Projects

Motion capabilities Advanced vector animation Transitions, basic movement Transitions

Video playback Encoding & advanced playback controls

Basic video playback controls Advanced playback controls

Extensibility ActionScript coding or components Flash Catalyst components or export to Flash Builder to add more functionality

Flex coding/components, ActionScript coding/components

Coding knowledge required

Some ActionScript coding None Advanced ActionScript or MXML

Playback support Flash Player, AIR, Flash Lite, iPhone* Flash Player 10, AIR Flash Player, AIR

*Packager for iPhone preview, included with Flash Professional CS5, compiles ActionScript bytecode into native iPhone application code. iPhone applications are distributed as iPhone application installer (IPA) files, via the iTunes store.