Flash Professional CS6 / Features
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Design with expression
Clearly communicate your creative vision with Adobe® Flash® Professional CS6 software using a powerful toolset that offers typographic precision, layout fidelity, and expressive motion-editing capabilities.
New support for HTML5
Leverage a new extension (available separately) to create interactive HTML5 content by building on core animation and drawing capabilities in Flash Professional. Export as JavaScript to target the CreateJS open source framework.
Sprite sheet generation
Export symbols and animation sequences to quickly generate sprite sheets that help improve the gaming experience, workflow, and performance.
Stage 3D targeting
Turbocharge rendering performance by using direct mode to leverage the open source Starling Framework for hardware-accelerated 2D content.
Advanced drawing tools
Design artwork more precisely and efficiently with smart shapes and powerful design tools.
Industry-leading animation tools
Create and edit motion tweens using the Timeline and Motion Editor, and use inverse kinematics to create natural motion for character animation.
Professional video tools
Easily incorporate video into your projects, and convert video clips efficiently with the included Adobe Media Encoder application.
Filter and Blend effects
Add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips to create expressive content.
Object-based animation
Gain control over individual animation attributes, and apply tweens directly to objects instead of keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.
3D transformation
Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformations to objects.
Spring attribute for the Bone tool
Add expressive, lifelike animation properties — like spring and bounce — with motion attributes for the Bone tool. A powerful inverse kinematics engine provides realistic physics movements.
Deco drawing brushes
Add advanced animation effects with a comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects.
Easy video integration
Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and the cue points property inspector. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage.
Advanced text engine
Get global bidirectional language support and advanced print-quality typography APIs via the Text Layout Framework. Maintain layout with greater fidelity when importing content from other Adobe applications.
XML-based FLA source files
Collaborate on projects more easily with an XML-based implementation of the FLA file format. Uncompressed projects act like folders, allowing you to quickly manage and modify assets.
Inverse kinematics pinning support
Lock inverse kinematics bones to the stage, and set stage-level movement restrictions to selected bones. Create multiple spans per layer, and define more complex movement of armatures, such as walk cycles.
Unified Creative Suite interface
Boost your efficiency with intuitive panel docking and spring-loaded behaviors that streamline your interaction with tools throughout Adobe Creative Suite® editions.
Creative Suite integration
Perform roundtrip edits of bitmap images with Adobe Photoshop® CS6 software, and integrate closely with Adobe Flash Builder® 4.6 software.
Precise layer control
Preserve important document structure when copying layers across multiple files and projects.
Write code quickly and perform testing easily
Access platform and device-specific capabilities using prebuilt native extensions, and simulate common mobile application interactions.
Platform and device-specific access
Use prebuilt native extensions that provide access to platform- or device-specific capabilities, such as battery level and vibration.
Adobe AIR mobile simulation
Simulate common mobile application interactions like screen orientation, touch gestures, and accelerometer to help speed up testing.
ActionScript editor
Streamline development with the built-in ActionScript® editor that features custom class code hinting and code completion. Efficiently reference your own or external code libraries.
Seamless mobile testing
Perform source-level debugging on devices that support the Adobe AIR® runtime and are connected with a USB cable, running content directly on the device.
Code Snippets panel
Help speed up project completion by using convenient prewritten code snippets for common actions, animation, multitouch gestures, and more. Also discover an easier way to learn ActionScript.
Efficient code snippets handling
Use the pick whip to preview and visually add more than 20 code snippets, including some for creating mobile and AIR applications, using the accelerometer, and adding multitouch gestures.
Flash Builder integration
Work more closely with developers who can use your FLA project files with Adobe Flash Builder to test, debug, and publish your content more efficiently.
Create once, deploy virtually anywhere
Create apps with a prepackaged Adobe AIR captive runtime to deliver consistently across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.
Wide platform and device support
Reach Android™ and iOS devices by targeting the latest Adobe Flash Player and AIR runtimes.
Efficient mobile development workflows
Manage FLA project files that target multiple devices. Share code and assets across documents and device targets to efficiently create, test, package, and deploy content for a wide range of screens and devices.
Content scaling when resizing stage
Save time when sharing symbols and motion paths across documents that are optimized for different screen sizes.
Prepackaged Adobe AIR application creation
Create and deliver applications with a prepackaged Adobe AIR captive runtime. Streamline application testing and enable end users to run your content without additional downloads.
Streamlined Publish Settings dialog box
Publish content quickly and more efficiently with an intuitive Publish Settings dialog box.
Cross-platform support
Work on your operating system of choice: Mac OS or Windows®.
Symbol performance options
Use new tooling options, on-stage symbol rasterization, and the Property Inspector to help improve CPU, battery, and rendering performance on mobile devices.
Incremental compilation
Use asset caching to reduce the compile time of documents that use embedded fonts and sound files, and deploy rich content faster.
Auto-save and file recovery
Help ensure consistency and integrity of your files, even after computer crashes or power outages.
Multiple AIR SDK support
Add multiple Adobe AIR software development kits (SDKs) with a menu command that helps you create new publishing targets more easily.
*HTML extension is available separately and only for Flash Professional CS6.
