Chapter 20 Publishing a Movie 493 The Flash publish settings gives you the ability to create a self-contained player document for the Macintosh or Windows operating system.. When you pub
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The Flash publish settings gives you the ability to create a self-contained player document for the Macintosh or Windows operating system When you publish a document using the projector options, Flash creates a Flash movie according to your setting, and embeds the player application into the file Creating a projector document increases the size of the final document by almost 1MB, so this option would not be used to create Internet documents, but for movies destined for playing on a hard drive,
or burned onto a CD or DVD When you publish using the Projector options, there are no additional options
Creating a Windows
or Macintosh
Projector
Create a Windows or
Macintosh Projector
Click the File menu, and then click
Publish Settings.
Select the Windows Projector
(.exe), and/or Macintosh Projector
check boxes
Click Publish.
Flash generates the Macintosh or
Windows Projectors documents,
and saves them in the same
location as the original source
document
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Did You Know?
You can play Flash SWF files different
ways Besides playing SWF files in a
stand-alone projector, you can also
play Flash content in an Internet
browser, such as Internet Explorer or
Firefox; in Director, Microsoft Office
and other ActiveX applications with the
Flash ActiveX; and as part of a
QuickTime video
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Flash lets you generate profiles for often-used publish settings within a Flash source file For example, you're creating a multi-purpose Flash document and you need specific settings to create a fast-loading Internet version, as well as a version designed to run on a CD or DVD
You could create a publishing profile to fit both needs, and save them with the source document The benefits of this are obvious: Not only can you quickly publish a Flash document using different profiles;
you're assured the settings will be accurate every time Fast and accu-rate are two words which describe Flash publishing
Creating a Publishing
Profile
Create a Publishing Profile
Click the File menu, and then click
Publish Settings.
Click the Current Profile list arrow
to select the profile
Make the necessary changes in
the Publish Settings dialog box
Click OK.
Click the Create New Profile
button
Enter a unique name in the Profile
Name box
Click OK.
IMPORTANT When you save a
Flash profile, it’s only available to
that specific document
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Once you create a unique profile settings file, it's available for use with the click of the Current Profile list arrow in the Publish Settings dialog box Unfortunately, not everything is perfect the first time you do it, and it's possible that after you create a profile, you discover a mistake in the settings The good news is that you don't have to begin again All you have to do is edit the profile
Editing Profile
Properties
Edit Profile Properties
Click the File menu, and then click
Publish Settings.
Click the Current Profile list arrow,
and then select the profile you
want to change
Make the necessary changes in
the Publish Settings dialog box
Click OK.
Select the File menu, and then
click Save.
Flash profiles are saved when you
save the Flash source document
IMPORTANT Profile properties
are recorded as you change them,
and then saved when you save the
file If you change your mind after
modifying the profile, your choices
include manually changing the
profile back to its original settings,
or closing the file without saving
However, if you've also made
changes to the Flash document,
closing without saving will also
cause you to lose those changes
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Saving Flash profiles is a great way to cut down on repetitive publish settings However, the disadvantage is the user-defined settings only relate to the original source document If you open a new file, you're starting from scratch It would be great to be able to create a series of setting files, and then use them over and over again on a new Flash document Flash understood this need and gave Flash users the ability
to create settings files, and then export them as a separate file Then, if you need to use the settings in a new Flash document, all you have to
do is import the settings file Exporting Dreamweaver profiles gives you the ability to import and use the profile on multiple Flash projects In addition, you can send copies of exported profiles to other Flash users,
so they can benefit from your efforts When you export a Flash profile, you have the ability to reuse it, via the Import option It's a good idea to save (export) all of your profiles into a single location That way, when you go to import a specific profile, you will know exactly where to point your finder
Exporting and
Importing a Profile
Export a Profile
Click the File menu, and then click
Publish Settings.
Click the Current Profile list arrow,
and then select the profile you
want to export
Click the Import/Export Profile
button, and then click Export.
Navigate to the drive or folder
location where you want to save
the exported profile
Click Save.
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Import a Profile
Click the File menu, and then click
Publish Settings.
Click the Current Profile list arrow,
and then select the profile you
want to import
Click the Import/Export Profile
button, and then click Import.
Navigate to the drive or folder
where the profile is located
Select the file name of the
exported profile
Click Open.
IMPORTANT Once a profile is
imported into a Flash document, it
becomes a copy of the original
item You can use it in the active
document, or make some minor
adjustments, and export it out as a
new profile
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