MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH - Exporting; Exporting Flash content and images

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CHAPTER 18
Exporting
The Export Movie command in Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 lets you
create content that can be edited in other applications and export Flash content directly into a
single format. For example, you can export an entire document as a Flash SWF file, as a series
of bitmap images, as a single frame or image file, or as moving and still images in various
formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PICT, QuickTime, or Windows AVI.
When you export a Flash file in the SWF format, text is encoded as Unicode, providing
support for international character sets, including double-byte fonts. Macromedia Flash
Player 6 and later versions support Unicode encoding. For more information, see Chapter 15,
“Creating Multilanguage Text,” on page 363.
If you have Macromedia Dreamweaver, you can add Flash content to your website easily.
Dreamweaver generates all the needed HTML code. You can start Flash from within
Dreamweaver to update the Flash content. See “Updating Flash content for Dreamweaver”
on page 510.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Exporting Flash content and images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
About export file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Updating Flash content for Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Exporting Flash content and images
To prepare Flash content for use in other applications or to export the contents of the current
Flash document in a particular file format, you use the Export Movie and Export Image
commands. The Export commands do not store export settings separately with each file, as
does the Publish command. (You use the Publish command to create all the files you need to
put Flash content on the web. See “Publishing Flash documents” on page 459.)
The Export Movie command lets you export a Flash document to a still-image format and
create a numbered image file for every frame in the document. You can also use Export Movie
to export the sound in a document to a WAV file (Windows only).