Controlling Swf Files - MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11 Use Manual

To manually control optimization settings, select Advanced:
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Path Compression
None (no compression and the greatest number of points) to Maximum (for the most
compression but lowest quality and fewest points).
Trace Dashed Strokes
converted to a separate object, increasing export time and file size.
Image Compression
JPEG format—None (highest quality, lowest compression) to Maximum (lowest quality,
highest compression).
Select a Text option to control how to export text:
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Maintain Blocks
or later.
Convert to Paths
attached to a path or text flowing inside a path is automatically converted to paths and
therefore is not editable in Flash. (This option yields a smaller file size than Maintain Blocks.)
omits all text from the exported file.
None
Select Compress Movie to reduce the file size of the exported movie.
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Click OK, and then click Save (Windows) or Export (Macintosh).
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To test your movie, see the following section.

Controlling SWF files

You can use the Controller or the Window > Movie commands to test, change movie settings for,
and export SWF movie files.
To test movies, you can play, stop, rewind, step forward, and step backward through frames.
When you test a movie, FreeHand creates a temporary SWF file and displays it in a Flash
Playback window. The temporary file is deleted when you close the window, unless you choose to
export the file.
Stop
First Frame
Step Backward
Step Forward
Play
You can drag the Controller to reposition it in FreeHand. You can also change the shortcut keys
for the Controller (see "Customizing your environment" on page 35).
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controls how precisely to convert FreeHand paths to Flash paths—from
converts dashed lines to multiple objects. Each dash segment is
controls image quality and compression for converting bitmap images to
keeps all the text together in a FreeHand text block for editing in Flash 3
converts text to vector paths, so the text is no longer editable as text. Text
Export Movie
Movie Settings
Test Movie
Last Frame