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Customizing HTML publishing templates 485

To create an image map:

1. In your Flash document, select the keyframe to be used for the image map and label it

#Map in the frame Property inspector (select Window > Properties if the Property

inspector is not visible). You can use any keyframe with buttons that have attached Get

URL actions.

If you don’t create a frame label, Flash creates an image map using the buttons in the last

frame of the SWF file. This option generates an embedded image map, not an embedded

Flash SWF file.

2. To select the frame to show the image map, do one of the following:

■ For PNG or GIF files, label the frame to appear as #Static.

■ For JPEG, during the publish operation, place the playhead on the frame to be used

for display.

3. In an HTML editor, open the HTML template you’ll modify. Flash stores HTML

templates in the following location: boot drive:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\

language\First Run\HTML.

4. Save your template.

5. Select File > Publish Settings, click the Format tab, and select a format for the image map:

GIF, JPEG, or PNG.

6. Click OK to save your settings.

For example, insert the following code in a template:

$IM

This might produce the following code in the HTML document created by the Publish

command:

</map>

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