Appendix E. Understanding SWF Export

SWF is an interactive file format designed to work with Adobe Flash Player. SWF supports page transitions as well as a number of other interactive features, such as hyperlinks, embedded movies, animations, interactive navigation buttons, and more. You will learn about some of these interactive features in Chapter 7.

Although SWF is an older file format that is not commonly used, designers use it at times because it supports a page transition feature that is not supported in interactive PDFs by default. The page curl transition, which appears as if you are literally flipping pages, only works in SWF (Figure E.1).

Figure E.1 An SWF document with the Page Curl transition

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