May 2007
Beginner
530 pages
16h 16m
English
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Publishing Your Animations
Publishing your animation is Flash shorthand for "using the editable .fla file you work with in Flash to generate a noneditable file your audience can play."
The kind of noneditable file Flash produces depends on how you decide to publish your animation. Your choices include:
A compiled Flash file (.swf). Flash Players, including the Flash Player plug-in that comes with most browsers, play .swf files. If you plan to include your Flash animation in a hand-coded HTML file (or to import it into a Web site creation program such as Adobe Dreamweaver), you want this option.
A Web page (.html, ...