Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 - Manual (Page 35)

About exporting from Flash
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Export SWF files
About export file formats
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Export SWF files
The Flash Export commands do not store export settings separately with each file, as does the Publish command. (To create all the files you need
to put Flash Professional content on the web, use the Publish command.)
Export Movie exports a Flash Professional document to a still-image format, creates a numbered image file for every frame in the document, and
exports the sound in a document to a WAV file (Windows only).
1. Open the Flash Professional document to export, or select the frame or image to export in the current document.
2. Select File > Export > Export Movie, or File > Export > Export Image.
3. Enter a name for the output file.
4. Select the file format and click Save. If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.
5. Set the export options for the format you selected. See About export file formats.
6. Click OK, and then click Save.
About export file formats
Remember the following:
If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.
When you save a Flash Professional image as a bitmap GIF, JPEG, PICT (Macintosh), or BMP (Windows) file, the image loses its vector
information and is saved with pixel information only. You can edit images exported as bitmaps in image editors such as Adobe®
Photoshop®, but you can no longer edit them in vector-based drawing programs.
When you export a Flash Professional file in the SWF format, text is encoded as Unicode, providing support for international character sets,
including double-byte fonts. Flash Professional Player 6 and later versions support Unicode encoding.
Flash Professional content is exported as sequences and images are exported as individual files. PNG is the only cross-platform bitmap format
that supports transparency (as an alpha channel). Some non-bitmap export formats do not support alpha (transparency) effects or mask layers.
The following table lists the formats that you can export Flash Professional content and images to:
File type Extension Windows Macintosh
Animated GIF, GIF Sequence,
and GIF Image .gif • •
Bitmap (BMP) Sequence and
Bitmap Image .bmp •
Flash document (SWF) .swf • •
JPEG Sequence and JPEG
Image .jpg • •
PICT Sequence and PICT
Image (Macintosh) .pct •
PNG Sequence and PNG
Image .png • •
Export QuickTime .mov • •
WAV audio (Windows) .wav •
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