Description
With a new streamlined user interface, time-saving design and development tools, and impressive integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional ensures a fast, fuid, and efcient workfow.
Introduction
All-new Adobe Flash CS3 Professional sofware is the most advanced authoring environment for rich, interactive content creation. Whether creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, online games, or content for mobile devices, designers and developers worldwide depend on Flash to ensure that their content reaches the widest audience. Available for Microsof Windows and as a universal-binary application for Mac, Flash CS3 provides the tools you need to be successful
Flash CS3 Professional is an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 3, which empowers creative
professionals and developers to experience an uninterrupted fow of energy and ideas from initial concept to polished fnal execution cross print, video, web, and mobile devices. Te end-to-end integration is the core of what makes Creative Suite uniquely powerfulso you can remain focused on your vision and achieve the highest quality results in less time.
With Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, you can:
Experience creative flexibilityFlash CS3 features a full set of creative drawing, animation, and interactive tools ofering greater productivity and fexibility to explore multiple
design options. New Shape Primitives and a new Pen toolone that functions like that found in Adobe Illustratorallow for precise control over your artwork.
Work in a productive development environmentRich time-saving programming tools
like code collapse and a new advanced debugger all make for a productive development
environment. Flash CS3 also features the ability to quickly convert timeline-based animations to ActionScript 3.0, making it easy to understand the structured and intuitive scripting
language that enables efcient and consistent content development.
Benefit from intelligent integrationFlash CS3 sports a new user interface that is consistent with other Adobe design sofware. Te ability to import native Photoshop and Illustrator content while preserving important structural data such as layers, editable text, and symbols makes completing projects much more fuid and efcient. And new Adobe Device Central CS3 makes it easier to develop content for mobile devices.
With a new streamlined user interface, time-saving design and development tools, and impressive integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3
Professional ensures a fast, fuid, and efcient workfow.
Top new features of Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional features powerful new functionality that makes it even more enjoyable to create truly engaging interactive content. Advanced design and animation tools
provide greater fexibility to express your most creative ideas, new ActionScript programming features make for an even more productive evelopment environment, and impressive integration with other Adobe design and development sofware improves productivity. Te following is a detailed overview of the top new features in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.
Native Photoshop and Illustrator import
As an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 sofware, Flash CS3 ofers impressive integration with Photoshop and Illustrator. Designers and developers are now free to use the applications they feel most comfortable with, yet still be able to work within the powerful design and development environment of Flashwithout sacrifce.
If youre trying to quickly import content, a new Paste dialog box makes it possible to preserve functionality and structure when simply copying and pasting from Photoshop or Illustrator into Flash. For an even higher level of functionality, you can import native Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI) fles directly into your Flash CS3 layouts. In doing so, youll fnd that you have an incredible amount of control over your content.
Essential integration with Photoshop CS3
Upon importing a PSD fle into Flash, a dialog box appears, revealing the entire layer hierarchy of the Photoshop fle. You then have the ability to choose which layers you want to import, and can also choose from a variety of settings for each individual layer. For example, you can retain Photoshop text as editable text in Flash, convert Photoshop layers or layer groups to movie clips, and even specify publish settings. Flash can set the stage size of your project to match the canvas size of the Photoshop fle, and can also ensure that layer content appears in position.
Convert animation to ActionScript 3.0
Developing efcient and lightweight Flash content is key in todays fast-paced I need it now world. For many designs, using ActionScript to defne movement of stage elements allows for greater fexibility and control. And while designers and developers are aware of this capability, the process of writing the necessary code can be complex and time-consuming.
In Flash CS3, timeline tween animations can now be instantly converted to ActionScript 3.0.
Tis allows you to animate visually, and then translate motion into reusable, easilyeditable code. Simply select an animation tween on the timeline, and choose Edit > Timeline > Copy As ActionScript 3.0. Afer applying an instance name, you can then paste the code into the Actions panel for an appropriate frame. Even if youve never used ActionScript before, this feature ofers the perfect way to learn it. Tis new time-saving functionality supports position, scale, rotation, skew, color, easing, transform center, flters, and frame properties.
New optimized and easily skinned UI components for ActionScript 3.0
With Flash CS3, you can design interactive content using a new lightweight, easy-to-skin set of user interface components. ActionScript 3.0 is so easy to customize, you no longer have
to write code to modify the look of interface components. Save precious time by developing your content using a variety of pre-built components written in ActionScript 3.0 simply by pulling content from a library. Once youve started using these components, you can easily re-skin them to match the exact look and feel of
your project. Tese components are built to perform faster than ever before and are easier
for advanced developers to extend. A new ActionScript 3.0 closed captioning video component now makes it easy to include closed captioning for your video content. Combine this with the new component skins, and you have a seamless workfow for displaying closed captions using a standards-based caption format.
Advanced QuickTime export
Flash CS3 introduces an advanced QuickTime export feature that captures exactly what Adobe Flash Player plays back. Tat means complex nested symbols and all ActionScript will export exactly as you would have seen and heard them in Flash Player. Export QuickTime fles that include nested Movie Clips, ActionScript-generated content, and run-time efects such as drop shadow and blur.
Te ability to generate an alpha channel, combined with a new Publish option that can ignore hidden Layers upon export, allows for entirely new workfows between Flash and video editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Afer Efects.
Time-saving programming tools
Reduce the time needed to write ActionScript with the following new code editor enhancements:
Te Actions panel and Script window now include tools for collapsing selected code to temporarily hide it from view.
Tools to comment whole sections of selected code have been added to the Script window.
AutoFormat ensures proper ActionScript 3.0 coding syntax and improved readability.
Flash now uses the same ActionScript 3.0 compiler as Flex Builder.
Script Assist mode can now be used with ActionScript 3.0.
ActionScript 3.0 introduces the new concept of a document classa class defnition associated with the main timeline. When the main timeline is initialized, the class is constructed.
You can specify a class name for a library symbol, which can then be directly instantiated dynamically to create instances of that symbol, making linkage identifers unnecessary.
You can specify a base-class name for library symbols.
You can now double-click an error in the Compiler Errors panel to go to the relevant code
in the Actions panel or Script window.
Te JSFL SpiderMonkey engine has been updated to 1.6 and many new JavaScript APIs have been added for enhanced extensibility.
Introduction
All-new Adobe Flash CS3 Professional sofware is the most advanced authoring environment for rich, interactive content creation. Whether creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, online games, or content for mobile devices, designers and developers worldwide depend on Flash to ensure that their content reaches the widest audience. Available for Microsof Windows and as a universal-binary application for Mac, Flash CS3 provides the tools you need to be successful
Flash CS3 Professional is an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 3, which empowers creative
professionals and developers to experience an uninterrupted fow of energy and ideas from initial concept to polished fnal execution cross print, video, web, and mobile devices. Te end-to-end integration is the core of what makes Creative Suite uniquely powerfulso you can remain focused on your vision and achieve the highest quality results in less time.
With Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, you can:
Experience creative flexibilityFlash CS3 features a full set of creative drawing, animation, and interactive tools ofering greater productivity and fexibility to explore multiple
design options. New Shape Primitives and a new Pen toolone that functions like that found in Adobe Illustratorallow for precise control over your artwork.
Work in a productive development environmentRich time-saving programming tools
like code collapse and a new advanced debugger all make for a productive development
environment. Flash CS3 also features the ability to quickly convert timeline-based animations to ActionScript 3.0, making it easy to understand the structured and intuitive scripting
language that enables efcient and consistent content development.
Benefit from intelligent integrationFlash CS3 sports a new user interface that is consistent with other Adobe design sofware. Te ability to import native Photoshop and Illustrator content while preserving important structural data such as layers, editable text, and symbols makes completing projects much more fuid and efcient. And new Adobe Device Central CS3 makes it easier to develop content for mobile devices.
With a new streamlined user interface, time-saving design and development tools, and impressive integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3
Professional ensures a fast, fuid, and efcient workfow.
Top new features of Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional features powerful new functionality that makes it even more enjoyable to create truly engaging interactive content. Advanced design and animation tools
provide greater fexibility to express your most creative ideas, new ActionScript programming features make for an even more productive evelopment environment, and impressive integration with other Adobe design and development sofware improves productivity. Te following is a detailed overview of the top new features in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.
Native Photoshop and Illustrator import
As an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 sofware, Flash CS3 ofers impressive integration with Photoshop and Illustrator. Designers and developers are now free to use the applications they feel most comfortable with, yet still be able to work within the powerful design and development environment of Flashwithout sacrifce.
If youre trying to quickly import content, a new Paste dialog box makes it possible to preserve functionality and structure when simply copying and pasting from Photoshop or Illustrator into Flash. For an even higher level of functionality, you can import native Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI) fles directly into your Flash CS3 layouts. In doing so, youll fnd that you have an incredible amount of control over your content.
Essential integration with Photoshop CS3
Upon importing a PSD fle into Flash, a dialog box appears, revealing the entire layer hierarchy of the Photoshop fle. You then have the ability to choose which layers you want to import, and can also choose from a variety of settings for each individual layer. For example, you can retain Photoshop text as editable text in Flash, convert Photoshop layers or layer groups to movie clips, and even specify publish settings. Flash can set the stage size of your project to match the canvas size of the Photoshop fle, and can also ensure that layer content appears in position.
Convert animation to ActionScript 3.0
Developing efcient and lightweight Flash content is key in todays fast-paced I need it now world. For many designs, using ActionScript to defne movement of stage elements allows for greater fexibility and control. And while designers and developers are aware of this capability, the process of writing the necessary code can be complex and time-consuming.
In Flash CS3, timeline tween animations can now be instantly converted to ActionScript 3.0.
Tis allows you to animate visually, and then translate motion into reusable, easilyeditable code. Simply select an animation tween on the timeline, and choose Edit > Timeline > Copy As ActionScript 3.0. Afer applying an instance name, you can then paste the code into the Actions panel for an appropriate frame. Even if youve never used ActionScript before, this feature ofers the perfect way to learn it. Tis new time-saving functionality supports position, scale, rotation, skew, color, easing, transform center, flters, and frame properties.
New optimized and easily skinned UI components for ActionScript 3.0
With Flash CS3, you can design interactive content using a new lightweight, easy-to-skin set of user interface components. ActionScript 3.0 is so easy to customize, you no longer have
to write code to modify the look of interface components. Save precious time by developing your content using a variety of pre-built components written in ActionScript 3.0 simply by pulling content from a library. Once youve started using these components, you can easily re-skin them to match the exact look and feel of
your project. Tese components are built to perform faster than ever before and are easier
for advanced developers to extend. A new ActionScript 3.0 closed captioning video component now makes it easy to include closed captioning for your video content. Combine this with the new component skins, and you have a seamless workfow for displaying closed captions using a standards-based caption format.
Advanced QuickTime export
Flash CS3 introduces an advanced QuickTime export feature that captures exactly what Adobe Flash Player plays back. Tat means complex nested symbols and all ActionScript will export exactly as you would have seen and heard them in Flash Player. Export QuickTime fles that include nested Movie Clips, ActionScript-generated content, and run-time efects such as drop shadow and blur.
Te ability to generate an alpha channel, combined with a new Publish option that can ignore hidden Layers upon export, allows for entirely new workfows between Flash and video editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Afer Efects.
Time-saving programming tools
Reduce the time needed to write ActionScript with the following new code editor enhancements:
Te Actions panel and Script window now include tools for collapsing selected code to temporarily hide it from view.
Tools to comment whole sections of selected code have been added to the Script window.
AutoFormat ensures proper ActionScript 3.0 coding syntax and improved readability.
Flash now uses the same ActionScript 3.0 compiler as Flex Builder.
Script Assist mode can now be used with ActionScript 3.0.
ActionScript 3.0 introduces the new concept of a document classa class defnition associated with the main timeline. When the main timeline is initialized, the class is constructed.
You can specify a class name for a library symbol, which can then be directly instantiated dynamically to create instances of that symbol, making linkage identifers unnecessary.
You can specify a base-class name for library symbols.
You can now double-click an error in the Compiler Errors panel to go to the relevant code
in the Actions panel or Script window.
Te JSFL SpiderMonkey engine has been updated to 1.6 and many new JavaScript APIs have been added for enhanced extensibility.