Adobe Flash Professional 8 (EN) MLP, TLP Educational 1000-4999 38002818ES Data Sheet

Product codes

38002818ES

Expressiveness

FlashType

A revolutionary new font rendering

engine that provides clear, highest-

quality font rendering, FlashType makes

small fonts look amazingly clear and

greatly improves readability. Choose

from several options for font rendering,

each optimized for different use cases.

Optimize font rendering with the new

custom anti-aliasing feature.

Bitmap caching

Supports unneeded re-rendering of

vector objects by simply flagging an

object as a bitmap. Even though the

object gets cached as a bitmap, the

vector data is still maintained so, at any

point, the object can be converted back

into a vector again.

Custom easing control

Easily, intuitively, and precisely control

the velocity of animated objects through

an intuitive graph that provides

independent control of position, rotation,

scale, color, and filters.

Improved text tool

Resize a text field using new, improved

text handles. Text fields can be resized

by grabbing any of the four handles.

Enhanced stroke properties

Select from a variety of cap and join

types. Apply a gradient to a stroke as

well as a fill. Render stroke intersections

better with stroke hinting.

Advanced gradient control

Tighter control over gradients such as

changing the focal point of a radial

gradient and selecting from different

overflow modes.

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Video and Mobile

Advanced video encoding options

The advanced video encoder, available

within the Flash authoring tool, as a

plugin to professional video editing tools,

or as a stand-alone tool, provides

advanced encoding options that will

allow developers to optimize quality

and file size of video content. The

standalone video encoder also includes

batch-processing capabilities to encode

multiple video files at once.

Video Encoder plug-in for

professional video editing tools

Export video directly to Flash from

leading professional video-editing

and encoding tools such as Avid

Xpress®/Media Composer®, Apple

Final Cut Pro®, Discreet® Cleaner®,

and Anystream® Agility®.

Interactive mobile device emulator

Build content once and test it on a wide

variety of devices using preset profiles

for every mobile device that supports

Flash Lite™. Configure the testing profile

to include multiple devices. Filter the

supported device list by target content

type to easily determine which handsets

support screen savers, wallpapers, in-

browser content, stand-alone player,

and so on. Reduce development time

and simplify planning for delivery.

Improved actions panel

By combining the new script assist

feature with the new target language

drop down in the actions panel, it is

now far simpler to use different versions

of the ActionScript language. For

understanding the syntax used by Flash

Lite 1.1 better, the new Script Assist

feature will do most of the work for you.

These improvements add up to a far

better development experience for

mobile content developers new to

Flash Lite.

User Experience

Object drawing model

Visualize shapes as objects by toggling

a new object drawing mode to represent

shapes as objects, along the lines

of vector drawing tools such as

Macromedia FreeHand.

Improved panel management

Improved panel management optimizes

workspace as the user sees fit. Group

panels together in tabbed-panel sets,

ala Dreamweaver® and Fireworks™.

Reduce on-screen clutter by grouping

most commonly-used panels together.

Stage pasteboard expansion

For projects that require large graphics

that extend far beyond the size of the

stage in Flash, view objects much

further off-stage. To expand the size of

the pasteboard, just drag an object

close to the edge and the pasteboard

will automatically grow to fit.

Undo/redo options

Switch between “object-level undo”

and “document-level undo.”

System Requirements

Windows®

At least 800 MHz Intel® Pentium® III processor (or
equivalent), Windows® 2000, Windows XP, 256 MB
RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio
8 product simultaneously), 1024 x 768, 16-bit display
(32-bit recommended), 710 MB available disk space

Macintosh®

At least 600 MHz PowerPC® G3, Mac OS® X 10.3, 10.4,
256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than
one Studio 8 product simultaneously), 1024 x 768,
thousands of colors display (millions of colors
recommended), 360 MB available disk space

Complete product system requirements
and recommendations available at
www.macromedia.com/go/sysreqs