Chapter 17: Publishing - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

CHAPTER 17
Publishing
When you're ready to deliver Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 content to an
audience, you can publish it for playback. By default, the Publish command creates a Flash
SWF file and an HTML document that inserts your Flash content in a browser window. The
Publish command also creates and copies detection files for Flash 4 and later. If you change
publish settings, Flash saves the changes with the document. You can create publish profiles to
name and save various configurations for the Publish Settings dialog box, in order to quickly
publish documents a variety of ways. After you create a publish profile, you can export it for
use in other documents, or for use by others working on the same project. For more
information, see "Using publish profiles" on page
If you're publishing content that targets Macromedia Flash Player 4 or later, you can
implement Flash Player detection, which checks your user's version of Flash Player. If the user
doesn't have the specified version, you can direct the user to an alternate web page. For more
information, see "Configuring publish settings for Flash Player detection" on page 468
Flash Player 6 and later supports Unicode text encoding. With Unicode support, users can
view multilanguage text, regardless of the language used by the operating system running the
player. For more information, see
You can also publish the FLA file in alternative file formats—GIF, JPEG, PNG, and
QuickTime—with the HTML needed to display them in the browser window. Alternative
formats allow a browser to show your SWF file animation and interactivity for users who
don't have the targeted Flash Player installed. When you publish a Flash document (FLA file)
in alternative file formats, the settings for each file format are stored with the FLA file.
You can also export the FLA file in several formats. Exporting FLA files is similar to
publishing FLA files in alternative file formats, except that the settings for each file format are
not stored with the FLA file. For more information, see
page 501.
As an alternative to using the Publish command, if you're proficient in HTML, you can create
a custom HTML document with any HTML editor and include the tags required to display a
SWF file. For more information, see
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Chapter 15, "Creating Multilanguage Text," on page
Chapter 18, "Exporting," on
"About configuring a web server for Flash" on page
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