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To create a new document:
1. Select File > New.
2.
On the General tab, select Flash Document.
To create a new document with the New File button (Windows only):
Click the New File button in the main toolbar to create a new document of the same type
as the last document created.
To open an existing document:
1. Select File > Open.
2. In the Open dialog box, navigate to the file or enter the path to the file in the Go To text
box.
3. Click Open.
To set properties for a new or existing document in the Document Properties
dialog box:
1. With the document open, select Modify > Document.
The Document Properties dialog box appears.
2.
To embed metadata within your SWF files, improving the ability of web-based search
engines to return meaningful search results for Flash content, do the following:
Enter a descriptive title in the Title text box.
Enter a description in the Description text box.
Descriptions can contain searchable keywords, author and copyright information, and
short descriptions about the content and its purpose.
The search metadata is based on the RDF (Resource Description Framework) and XMP
(Extensible Metadata Platform) specifications and is stored in Flash in a W3C-compliant
format.
Flash lets you make the settings you specify in the Document Properties dialog box the
default settings for any Flash document that you create. The exception to this is the Title
and Description, which you need to specify for each Flash document that you create.
3.
For Frame Rate, enter the number of animation frames to appear every second.
For most computer-displayed animations, especially those playing from a website, 8
frames per second (fps) to 12 fps is sufficient (12 fps is the default frame rate).
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