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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Creating a FLA file and adding graphics
- Creating a symbol and adding animation
- Publishing your file
Creating a simple document in Flash CS4 Professional
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is an authoring tool that designers and developers use to create presentations, applications, and other content that enables user interaction. Flash projects can include simple animations, video content, complex presentations, applications, and everything in between. In general, individual pieces of content made with Flash Professional are called applications (or SWF applications), even though they might only be a basic animation. You can make media-rich applications by including pictures, sound, video, and special effects.
The SWF format is extremely well suited for delivery over the Internet because its files are very small. This is due to its extensive use of vector graphics. Vector graphics require significantly less memory and storage space than bitmap graphics because they are represented by mathematical formulas instead of large data sets. Bitmap graphics are larger because each individual pixel in the image requires a separate piece of data to represent it.
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
