Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 Create and deliver rich interactive content

Flash Professional CS5 software is the industry-leading environment for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution. Design expressive content, write code precisely and efficiently, and deliver superior-quality video to audiences practically everywhere.

A powerful new text engine, expanded support for mobile and consumer devices, and enhanced coding tools are among the new features in Professional CS5 software, the industry-leading interactive authoring tool. Flash Professional CS5 offers unrivaled integration with Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is Illustrator®, InDesign®, and After Effects® software, creating a design workflow that extends the potential of also available as a component of: your interactive content across media formats. Integrated support of , Adobe AIR®, and • Adobe Creative Suite® 5 Web Premium mobile authoring allows you to easily and consistently deliver interactive content, advertising, and • Adobe Creative Suite 5 video virtually anywhere. Design Premium Flash Professional is the flagship product for designing and developing content for the Adobe Flash • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Platform, and is an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Production Premium Premium, and Master Collection software. Combined with the numerous benefits of these Creative Suite • Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection 5 editions, the features in Flash Professional provide a comprehensive toolset for design, web, mobile, and video workflows.

The new Code Snippets panel lets With the new text engine in Flash Professional CS5, you can take advantage of rich typographical controls, you inject prebuilt code into projects, including threaded and multi-column text. so you can work faster, freeing up more time for creativity. Contents Top features With Adobe Flash Professional CS5, you can: • New text engine (Page 3) Who uses Flash Professional? 2 Design with expression. Communicate your vision without sacrifice and create interactive content • Ability to distribute content virtually anywhere (Page 4) with typographic precision, design fidelity, and expressive motion. Achieve print-quality Top new features of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 3 • XML-based FLA source files (Page 5) typography by using the new Text Layout Framework. Use new spring attributes for the Bones tool • Code Snippets panel (Page 5) to create more realistic inverse kinematic effects. Use new brushes for the Deco tool to easily draw New text engine 3 • Enhanced ActionScript editor (Page 6) shapes and add advanced animation effects, and add interactivity directly by injecting extensible • Improved Creative Suite integration ActionScript® code snippets. (Page 6) Ability to distribute content virtually anywhere 4 Write code quickly and easily. Quickly and efficiently write code thanks to powerful authoring tools • Flash Builder integration (Page 6) and integration with development software. Use timesaving libraries of extensible code snippets and XML-based FLA source files 5 • Spring for Bones (Page 6) • Video improvements (Page 7) an improved code editor with custom class code hinting and completion—and use ™ software as your full-featured ActionScript editor. Leverage integration with Adobe Device Code Snippets panel 5 • New Deco drawing tools (Page 7) Central for enhanced testing and debugging of content for mobile and consumer devices.

Enhanced ActionScript editor 6 Deliver in fewer steps and in more places. Save time and reduce the number of required steps when moving content from design to development and ultimately to delivery. A new XML-based Improved Creative Suite integration 6 file format enables teams to easily collaborate, and support for the FXG graphics format provides improved integration with Illustrator and other Adobe Creative Suite 5 software. Streamlined video Flash Builder integration 6 embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing means designers and developers can deliver expressive content more easily across personal computers, mobile devices, Spring for Bones 6 and screens of virtually any size and resolution. Video improvements 7 Who uses Flash Professional? New Deco drawing tools 7 Interactive designers use Flash Professional to create content with expressive motion. With the new Text Layout Framework, an XML-based file format that enables teams to easily collaborate, Still using Flash CS3 Professional? 8 timesaving libraries of extensible code snippets, and new motion attributes to control spring with the Bones tool, they create immersive interactive web content and experiences. Better media management with About Adobe Systems Incorporated 8 Adobe Bridge CS5 Web designers use Adobe Flash Professional to create expressive interactive content with design Whether you are a designer or a fidelity. Using timesaving libraries of extensible code snippets, a new XML-based file format that photographer, you can now manage Adobe Flash authoring tools 9 enables teams to easily collaborate, and improved integration with other Adobe Creative Suite your content more efficiently with software, they create free-form and immersive interactive web content and experiences for these new or enhanced features in Bridge CS5 software: delivery virtually anywhere. • Flexible batch renaming, including Web application developers use Flash Professional to save time and reduce the number of steps savable presets of regularly used required for incorporating data and deploying applications. Using extensible code snippets, custom settings class code hinting and completion, and Adobe Flash Builder software as a full-featured ActionScript • Advanced text and image-based watermark options when outputting editor, they provide data connectivity for websites and build cross-platform rich Internet PDF documents applications for delivery virtually anywhere. • Conversion of image files to JPEG format for easy file-sharing via Graphic designers use Flash Professional to create expressive interactive content with typographic websites and galleries precision. Using the new Text Layout Framework, brushes for the Deco tool to easily draw shapes • Faster navigation between open and add advanced animation effects, ready-to-use code snippets that teach basic ActionScript, and folders with an improved Path bar enhanced integration between Flash Professional and other Adobe Creative Suite software, they • Precise adjustment of the size and create free-form interactive content for delivery virtually anywhere. quality of images in the Web Gallery • Support for drag-and-drop actions Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists use Flash Professional to create interactive between Bridge CS5 and Creative content with design fidelity and expressive motion. Augmenting their work by using new motion Suite components attributes to control spring as part of the Bones tool and streamlined video embedding and • The ability to browse linked files in encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing, they deliver short-form video content, InDesign documents advanced animations, and professional-quality productions for delivery virtually anywhere. • Easy placement of Illustrator files from Bridge CS5 into InDesign Video editors use Flash Professional to create immersive experiences with live-action video layouts and Smart Object creation in Photoshop footage, still images, sound, and music. Improved integration with other Adobe Creative Suite • A Publish panel with simple options software, along with streamlined video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video to output files to disc and upload scrubbing, helps them assemble compelling stories, pitch concepts, and create short films and images to popular sharing sites animations for delivery virtually anywhere.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New 2 Top new features of Adobe Flash Professional CS5

Arabic New text engine Bengali Flash Professional CS5 adds support for the new Text Layout Framework built into Flash Player 10, Bulgarian enabling you to use print-quality typographic functionality and take the experiences you create to new heights. Support for the Text Layout Framework provides rich, multilingual typographic Catalan control that previously was not available in Flash Professional, as well as a comprehensive set of Chinese (simplified) APIs to manipulate text content, layout, and markup. The new text engine in Flash Professional CS5 Chinese (traditional) also maintains layout and text formatting with greater fidelity when importing content from Adobe Croatian InDesign software and other Adobe products. Czech Danish Print-quality typographic control Designers have come to expect rich typographic English control in applications like InDesign and Illustrator. Estonian However, it’s been extremely difficult or even Finnish impossible to set professional-level typography on French the web—until now. With the Text Layout Framework German support in Flash Professional CS5, designers can take Greek advantage of rich typographical controls, including: Gujarati • Advanced text styling such as kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, superscript, subscript, discretion- Hebrew ary hyphens, margins, hypertext, baseline shift, Hindi typographic case, digit case (oldstyle/lining figures), Hungarian and digit width (proportional/tabular figures).

Italian • Advanced text-layout controls including threaded Japanese text blocks; the selection, editing and flowing of Korean text across multiple columns; linked images; text Latvian wrap; and inline images (supporting PNG, JPG, SWF, Lithuanian or any Flash Player DisplayObject). Tab stops and CSS anti-aliasing are also supported. Marathi Norwegian Global language support Persian The Text Layout Framework brings advanced Polish multilingual typographic and layout features to Flash Portuguese Professional CS5. This support includes the ability to Punjabi display and edit not only right-to-left scripts, but also top-to-bottom scripts, and those that often use a Romanian mixture of left-to-right and right-to-left scripts such Russian as Arabic and Hebrew. Slovak The new text engine offers additional features for Slovenian East Asian typography, including an East Asian Spanish justifier, vertical text support, and Tate-Chu-Yoko, Swedish or blocks of horizontal text embedded into vertical Tamil runs of text. Telugu Advanced inline text editing Thai Working with text inside of Flash Professional is now Turkish a far more efficient and productive experience. In Ukrainian addition to cut, copy, paste, find, replace, and Urdu spell-check functionality and standard keyboard and Vietnamese mouse gestures for editing (Ctrl/Command, Home/ The Text Layout Framework offers End, double-click), a new Selection mode allows text support for more than 30 languages. to be treated as read-only, read-select, or read-write. Advanced typographic features are accessed on the stage or through the Properties panel.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New 3 Use the new text engine in Flash Professional CS5 to set professional-quality text in your layouts.

Advanced rendering support While offering advanced typographic control to designers is important, you want to know that what you see on your screen matches your viewers’ experience as well. The Text Layout Framework builds on the history of consistent high-quality playback and display across multiple devices in Flash Player by adding support for transparency and for device and embedded fonts (including anti-aliasing of embedded fonts). A new embedded font format (DefineFont4) provides improved typography features, international support, and reduced file sizes.

Ability to distribute content virtually anywhere Deliver consistently across screens of virtually any size and use Adobe Device Central for enhanced device testing. The Distribution service available separately through Adobe Flash Platform Services* Singular experience, multiple devices. The Open Screen Project offers free and paid methods for distributing applications to social networks, mobile devices, and is an industry-wide initiative, led desktops. It also enables developers and businesses to track the distribution of and user by Adobe and backed by other engagement with their applications, and enables monetization of applications through ad hosting. industry leaders who all share one • Deliver to mobile and consumer devices. Deliver content that plays back on millions of devices clear vision: enable consumers to worldwide. Packager for iPhone preview, included with Flash Professional CS5, compiles engage with rich, virtually seamless Internet experiences across ActionScript bytecode into native iPhone application code. (The preview is also included in the practically any device. Adobe AIR® SDK.) iPhone applications are distributed as iPhone application installer (IPA) files, via the iTunes store.

• Deliver to desktop computers. Take advantage of the ubiquity of Flash Player within browsers and Adobe AIR for extended support on the desktop. Content displays with a consistent look and feel across operating systems and browsers. Adobe Device Central Adobe Device Central CS5 simplifies the production of content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles. Now with support for HTML and the latest versions of Flash Player, Adobe Device Central helps developers deliver engaging When designing mobile experiences to millions of mobile content in Flash Professional subscribers and consumers across CS5, you can use the Test many unique devices. Movie command to launch Adobe Device Central CS5 and test things like network performance and accelerometer controls.

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Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New 4 XML-based FLA source files Flash Professional CS5 uses an XML-based implementation of the FLA file format called XFL, = offering improved cross-product integration and workflow productivity. This compact and efficient file format both accurately maintains data in a Flash document and makes the individual elements easier to manage and use.

For example, an image that is currently used in a Flash project could be checked out of a source control system, updated, and checked back in. The next time you open the FLA project file, you would instantly see the updated image without having to manually import it into the project. In their uncompressed format, FLA files enable multiple users to With better support for multiuser environments and cross-product compatibility, the XML-based work on the same projects. format in Flash Professional offers the following benefits: • The uncompressed format allows several users on a team to work on the same project simultaneously—no more having to split the project into multiple FLA files.

• Integration with source control systems is now possible because each team member can work on separate assets in the XFL package, eliminating the need to resolve differences.

• Mobile developers can work on the same files as other developers. (In the past, mobile content could not load other SWF files.)

Using XML-based FLA source files, Flash Professional CS5 provides a richer environment in which to exchange data with other key Adobe Creative Suite tools, including After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Adobe Encore®, and Flash Catalyst.

The replacement of the file-format structure from FLA to XFL is transparent, allowing you to work with project files in the same way, only with more control.

Code Snippets panel Flash Professional CS5 provides a new way to quickly include code for things like timeline navigation, actions, animation, audio and video, and event handlers with the Code Snippets panel. By injecting prebuilt code into projects, you can work faster, freeing up more time for creativity.

For example, the sample code snippets allow you to create interactive buttons without extensive code experience. Code snippets also contain helpful comments and clear instructions right in the code and can greatly reduce the ActionScript 3.0 learning curve by helping new users learn how the ActionScript language works. In addition, because the panel is extensible, you can create and share snippets with others, helping to reduce overall production time.

The Code Snippets panel in Flash Professional CS5 makes including ActionScript code in your project much, much easier.

Code snippets help you learn how to code on your own. When you apply a snippet, clear instructions help you customize the code to your specific needs.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New 5 Enhanced ActionScript editor Increase development speed with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion, and reference your own code or external code libraries more efficiently. Novice developers can start projects and have code hinting assist them as they try to grasp the fundamentals of the ActionScript language. Flash Professional CS5 can automatically write the import statement for libraries, and more experienced and advanced developers can more quickly reference their own code or any external code libraries they are using.

Improved Creative Suite integration Flash Professional is an integral part of all Creative Suite 5 Premium editions. Flash Professional

Achieve extraordinary web design CS5 adds more ways to work directly with other Creative Suite 5 components for a more efficient Explore the wider world of web workflow, including: design and development with Adobe • Edit bitmaps in Photoshop using the new Edit With Photoshop CS5 command Creative Suite 5 Web Premium. • Export complex graphics via the FXG format, which you can open in Illustrator Get a more comprehensive toolset at an appealing price. In addition to • Place finished SWF files into Flash Catalyst projects Adobe Flash Professional, Creative Suite 5 Web Premium offers the latest • Use Flash Builder as your ActionScript code-authoring environment versions of Adobe Dreamweaver®, • Open content from InDesign with greater text fidelity Flash Catalyst™, Flash Builder Standard, Photoshop Extended, • Import FXG files fromFireworks Illustrator, Acrobat® Pro, Fireworks®, and Contribute®, so that you can: • Open content from After Effectsand retain editing flexibility • Create websites with content management systems. With Flash Builder integration Dreamweaver, you can integrate Adobe Flash Builder (formerly Adobe Flex® Builder™) is a professional Eclipse-based developer tool with PHP-based CMS frameworks like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal that enables intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual design of the user to author and test your websites. interface and behavior for Flex applications. Rather than having to choose between one integrated • Quickly create stunning 3D development environment (IDE) and another, you can now write your ActionScript code in Flash artwork. With Photoshop CS5 Builder and then test, debug, and publish your content in Flash Professional. Extended, you can take your designs even further by easily building 3D • Test Movie and Debug Movie. When invoked, these commands bring up Flash Professional CS5, extrusions with Adobe Repoussé. open the FLA file that has been set in the properties of the current project, and test or debug the • Design crisp graphics for web movie. Once the SWF window is closed (or the debug session is ended, in the case of Debug and mobile devices. With Movie), focus is returned to Flash Builder (and the FLA file remains open). You can also set Illustrator, you can deliver clean, sharp, pixel-aligned artwork and breakpoints in Flash Builder that work in the Flash Professional debugger. text with enhanced anti-aliasing. • Publish Movie. When invoked, this command brings up Flash Professional CS5 and publishes the • Use a comprehensive toolset for the Flash Platform. With Flash target FLA file. Once the export is complete, if compiler errors were found, Flash Professional is Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, brought to the front with its Compiler Errors panel open and the errors listed. If no errors were and Flash Builder 4 Standard, you found, a dialog box in Flash Builder indicates that the Publish request was successful. can create expressive interactive content that delivers consistently across personal computers, mobile Spring for Bones devices, and screens of virtually any With Flash Professional CS5, Adobe integrates the power of a dynamic physics engine into the size or resolution. Inverse Kinematics (IK) system. This engine allows new users to create lifelike animation with ease, For more info, see Adobe Creative and gives expert users powerful functionality that is supported for both runtime and authortime. Suite 5 Web Premium What’s New. Spring gives IK animation movement that is 100% configurable, so you can now get realistic multi-object interactions that don’t look robotic and rigid.

Spring, a property of an IK Bone element, consists of two attributes: Strength and Damping. • Strength sets the amount of spring. When the value is greater than zero, the bone reacts with a physical movement that is proportional to the Strength value and the overall movement.

• Damping adds resistance to the Strength value. This affects the rate of decay of the spring, which in turn determines the duration between the initial movement and the time when the IK Bone returns to its rest position.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New 6 Specifying Strength and Damping values for each IK bone in an armature can give your animation lifelike quality. Spring for Bones is extremely powerful while being very easy to understand and use, and provides a more realistic movement quality that reacts when an IK Bone is moved, and then incrementally diminishes over time.

Video improvements With integrated support for content created with Adobe Premiere® Pro or Adobe After Effects software, it’s easy to work with video content directly in Flash Professional CS5.

Streamline embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and the ability to define cue points directly in the Properties panel. Now, when you have an FLV playback component on the stage, you can see the video on the stage, whereas previously you had to test the movie. Flash Professional CS5 also includes Adobe Media Encoder, enabling you to convert just about any file format to FLV or F4V.

Setting cue points in the Properties panel enables you to trigger actions during video playback.

You can scrub video and view the timecode directly on the stage, making it easy to add custom cue points.

New Deco drawing tools Flash Professional CS5 extends the functionality of the dynamic Deco brush tools, enabling you to easily draw shapes and add advanced animation effects. These new brushes include: • Particle System. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain.

• 3D, Decorated, and new Grid brushes. Draw stylized lines or create patterns with multiple objects at once.

• Tree, Flame, Lightning, and Building brushes. Use specialized tools to add and customize these stylized shapes.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 What’s New 7 System requirements Still using Flash CS3 Professional? Windows If you’re still using Flash CS3 Professional, upgrading to Flash Professional CS5 also gives you the • Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 chance to catch up on all the great features added in Flash CS4 Professional that allow you to processor design with ease and efficiency, explore new creative possibilities, collaborate across workflows, • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); and deliver for a wide audience. Upgrading to Flash Professional CS5 will also give you the features Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, and benefits of Flash CS4 Professional, including: Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7 • Object-based animation. Gain control over individual animation attributes with object-based • 1GB of RAM animation, which applies tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes • 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for to motion with Bezier handles. installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on • 3D transformation. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and removable flash-based storage devices) rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global • 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card transformations to any object. • DVD-ROM drive • Sophisticated video tools. Leverage the Adobe Media Encoder to benefit from advanced video • QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features capabilities including embedded cue points, alpha channel support, and high-quality codecs. • Broadband Internet connection required for online services* • Authoring for Adobe AIR. Deliver interactive experiences to the desktop with new integrated capability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime. Mac OS • Multicore Intel processor • New Adobe Creative Suite interface. Boost your efficiency with intuitive panel docking and • Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6 spring-loaded behaviors that streamline your interaction with tools throughout the Adobe • 1GB of RAM Creative Suite editions. • 4GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a About Adobe Systems Incorporated volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based Adobe is the world’s leading provider of software solutions to create, manage, and deliver high- storage devices) impact, reliable digital content. For more information, visit www.adobe.com. • 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card • DVD-ROM drive • QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features • Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

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Expected ship date Second quarter 2010 For more information Product details: www.adobe.com/flash

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Flash Professional Flash Catalyst Flash Builder Typical projects Rich content, interactive video User interfaces, rich Internet Rich Internet applications content, advertising, games applications, microsites, prototypes, widgets

Product description An authoring tool that enables you to An interaction design tool that An integrated development create immersive experiences that enables you to transform artwork into environment (IDE) that enables you to can include video content functional interfaces and interactive develop rich Internet applications content

Project approach Free-form design Structured interaction design Structured development

Project organization Timeline and frames Pages and states Projects

Motion capabilities Advanced vector animation Transitions, basic movement Transitions

Video playback Encoding & advanced playback Basic video playback controls Advanced playback controls controls

Extensibility ActionScript coding or components Flash Catalyst components or export Flex coding/components, ActionScript to Flash Builder to add more coding/components functionality

Coding knowledge Some ActionScript coding None Advanced ActionScript required or MXML

Playback support Flash Player, AIR, Flash Lite, iPhone* Flash Player 10, AIR Flash Player, AIR

*Packager for iPhone preview, included with Flash Professional CS5, compiles ActionScript bytecode into native iPhone application code. iPhone applications are distributed as iPhone application installer (IPA) files, via the iTunes store.