This Chapter Contains The Following Sections: Playing Your Flash Swf Files - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

Before you publish your SWF file, it's important to test how the SWF file works using the
Test Movie and Test Scene commands.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Playing your Flash SWF files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .456
About publishing secure Flash documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .457
Configuring a server for Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .458
Publishing Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
About publishing Flash Lite documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Using publish profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
About HTML publishing templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Customizing HTML publishing templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .482
Editing Flash HTML settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .488
Previewing the publishing format and settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Using Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
About configuring a web server for Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Playing your Flash SWF files
The Macromedia Flash SWF file format is for deploying Flash content.
You can play Flash content in the following ways:
In Internet browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer that are equipped with Flash
Player 8
With the Flash Xtra in Director and Authorware
With the Flash ActiveX control in Microsoft Office and other ActiveX hosts
As part of a QuickTime video
As a stand-alone video called a projector
The Flash SWF format is an open standard that is supported by other applications. For more
information about Flash file formats, see www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer.
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