Adobe Flash Professional CS6 / Buying guide
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Flash Professional CS6
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| Extensive publishing support | |||||
| Publish to HTML5 using the Toolkit for CreateJS - Available separately as a complimentary extension |
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| Prepackaged Adobe AIR® applications |
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| Platform- and device-specific access |
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| Adobe AIR 3.2 support |
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| Adobe Flash Player 11.2 support |
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| Enhanced performance for mobile content |
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| Streamlined Publish Settings dialog box |
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| Support for Apple iOS |
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| Expressive design capabilities | |||||
| Sprite sheet generation |
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| Pinning support for inverse kinematics |
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| Copying and pasting of layers |
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| Text engine |
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| Spring for the Bone tool |
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| Adobe Creative Suite user interface |
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| Sophisticated video tools |
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| Deco drawing brushes |
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| Object-based animation |
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| 3D transformation |
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| Inverse kinematics with the Bone tool |
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| Procedural modeling with Deco and Spray Brush |
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| Animation copy and paste |
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| Efficient coding tools | |||||
| Adobe AIR mobile simulation |
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| Management of multiple FLA files that target various devices |
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| On-device mobile testing over USB |
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| Auto-save and file recovery |
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| Mobile code snippets and improved code snippets handling |
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| Adobe Flash Builder® integration |
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| XML-based FLA source files |
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| Code Snippets panel |
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| Improved ActionScript® editor |
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| XFL support |
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| Animation conversion to ActionScript |
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| ActionScript 3.0 development |
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