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In Lesson 11, students explore a range of options for

publishing a document, using the alien animation they

created in Lesson 5.

Publishing overview

By default, the Publish command creates a Flash SWF

ﬁle, an HTML document that inserts your Flash content

in a browser window, and a JavaScript ﬁle labeled

AC_RunActiveContent.js that lets your SWF ﬁle play

automatically in active content-compliant browsers.

(For ActionScript 2.0, Flash creates a similar JavaScript

ﬁle called AC_OETags.js.) The Publish command also

creates and copies detection ﬁles for Macromedia Flash

4 from Adobe and later. If you change publish settings,

Flash saves the changes with the document. After you

create a publish profile, export it to use in other

documents, or for others working on the same project

to use.

You can publish the Flash document in alternative ﬁle

formats—GIF, JPEG, PNG, and QuickTime—with the

HTML needed to display them in the browser window.

Alternative formats allow a browser to show your SWF

ﬁle animation and interactivity for users who don’t

have the targeted Flash Player installed. When you

publish a Flash document in alternative ﬁle formats,

the settings for each ﬁle format are stored with the

document.

You can export the Flash document in several fomats,

similar to publishing FLA ﬁles in alternative ﬁle for-

mats, except that the settings for each ﬁle format are

not stored with the FLA ﬁle.

Alternatively, create a custom HTML document with

any HTML editor and include the tags required to

display a SWF ﬁle.

Note: If you create a custom HTML document to

display your SWF ﬁles in, ensure that it allows your

content to play as expected in active content-compliant

browsers. For more information about active content,

see www.adobe.com/go/activecontent.

Congure a server for Flash Player

For users to view your Flash content on the web, the

web server must be properly conﬁgured to recognize

SWF ﬁles.

Your server may already be conﬁgured properly. To test

server conﬁguration, see TechNote 4151 on the Adobe

Flash Support Center at www.adobe.com/go/tn_4151.

Conﬁguring a server establishes the appropriate Multi-

part Internet Mail Extension (MIME) types so that the

server can identify ﬁles with the .swf extension as Flash

ﬁles.

A browser that receives the correct MIME type can load

the appropriate plug_in, control, or helper application

to process and properly display the incoming data. If

the MIME type is missing or not properly delivered by

the server, the browser might display an error message

or a blank window with a puzzle piece icon.

• If your site is established through an Internet service

provider (ISP), ask the ISP to add this MIME type to

the server:

application/x-shockwave-ﬂash with the .swf extension.

• If you are administering your own server, see your

web server documentation for instructions on adding

or conﬁguring MIME types.

• Corporate and enterprise system administrators

can conﬁgure Flash to restrict Flash Player access to

resources in the local ﬁle system. Create a security

conﬁguration ﬁle that limits Flash Player functionality

on the local system.

Using Adobe Device Central with Flash

Device Central enables Flash users to preview how

Flash ﬁles will look and function on a variety of mobile

devices.

In the past, it was difﬁcult for Adobe Flash Lite developers

to test the ﬁles they created on mobile devices. Testing

content could take a signiﬁcant amount of time, espe-

cially manually exporting and testing on target devices

and returning to Flash to make necessary changes.

Lesson 11: Publishing Flash Documents

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