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Setting publish options for the Flash SWF file format
When publishing a Flash document, you can set image and sound compression options, and
an option to protect your SWF file from being imported. You use the controls in the Flash
panel of the Publish Settings dialog box to change the settings.
To set publish options for a Flash document:
1.
Open the Publish Settings dialog box. Do one of the following:
Select File > Publish Settings.
In the Property inspector for the document (which is available when no object is
selected), click the Settings button.
To create a publish profile for the publish settings that you specify, see
publish profiles" on page
2. Click the Flash tab and select a Player version from the Version pop-up menu.
Not all Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 features work in published
SWF files that target Flash Player versions earlier than Flash Player 8.
If you want to specify Flash Player detection, on the HTML tab of the Publish Settings
dialog box, you must select Flash Player 4 or later. For more information about Flash
Player detection, see
on page 468.
3.
Select a load order to specify how Flash loads a SWF file's layers for showing the first frame
of your SWF file: Bottom Up or Top Down.
This option controls which parts of the SWF file Flash draws first over a slow network or
modem connection.
4.
In the ActionScript Version pop-up menu, select either ActionScript 1.0 or 2.0 to reflect
the version in your document.
If you select ActionScript 2.0 and you've created classes, you can click the Settings button
to set the relative classpath to class files that differs from the path to default directories set
in Preferences. For more information, see
5.
To enable debugging of the published Flash SWF file, select any of the following options:
Generate Size Report
content by file.
Omit Trace Actions
file. When you select this option, information from Trace actions does not appear in the
Output panel.
For more information, see "Using the Output panel" in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Flash.
478.
"Configuring publish settings for Flash Player detection"
generates a report listing the amount of data in the final Flash
causes Flash to ignore Trace actions (
"Setting the classpath" on page
trace
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