Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS4 Professional in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Chapter 24. Publishing a Creation

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS HOUR:

• How to use the various publish settings

• How to use templates to publish variations on the default formats

• How metadata can make your projects easier for people to find when searching the web

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The final step in any Flash production is publishing. In Hour 20, “Linking a Movie to the Web,” you learned the minimum steps required for publishing, but that was to quickly get your movies to play in a browser. In this hour, you learn the fine details involved in publishing exactly how you want.

How to Publish

Recall from Hour 19, “Using Video,” that publishing is as easy as selecting File, Publish. In practice, however, you want to first save your files in a ...