FLASH CS3
User Guide
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In Design view, press Control (Windows) or Command (Macintosh), and double-click the Flash content.
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In Design view, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the Flash content, and select Edit with Flash.
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In Design view, in the Site panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the Flash content, and select
Open with Flash.
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If the FLA file for the exported file does not open, the Open File dialog box appears. Navigate to the FLA file, and
click Open.
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If the user used the Change Link Sitewide feature in Dreamweaver, a warning appears. To apply link changes to
the Flash content, click OK. To prevent the warning message from appearing when you update the Flash content,
click Don’t Warn Me Again.
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Update the FLA file as needed in Flash.
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To save the FLA file and reexport it to Dreamweaver, do one of the following:
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To update the file and close Flash, click the Done button above the upper-left corner of the Stage.
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To update the file and keep Flash open, select File > Update for Dreamweaver.
About export file formats
Remember the following:
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If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.
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When you save a Flash image as a bitmap GIF, JPEG, PICT (Macintosh), or BMP (Windows) file, the image loses
its vector information and is saved with pixel information only. You can edit images exported as bitmaps in image
editors such as Adobe® Photoshop®, but you can no longer edit them in vector-based drawing programs.
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When you export a Flash file in the SWF format, text is encoded as Unicode, providing support for international
character sets, including double-byte fonts. Macromedia Flash Player 6 and later versions support Unicode
encoding.
Flash content is exported as sequences, and images are exported as individual files. PNG is the only cross-platform
bitmap format that supports transparency (as an alpha channel). Some non-bitmap export formats do not support
alpha (transparency) effects or mask layers.
The following table lists the formats that you can export Flash content and images to:
File type
Extension
Windows
Macintosh
“Adobe Illustrator
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uence and Illustrator
Image” on page
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.ai
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“Animated GIF, GIF
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q
uence, and GIF
Image” on page
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.gif
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“Bitmap (BMP) Se
q
uence
and Bitmap Image” on
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.bmp
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“DXF Se
q
uence and
AutoCAD DXF Image” on
page
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.dxf
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