The Flash Professional CS5 Software from Adobe is a Mac software application that is used to create interactive web pages and powerful web applications, and to deliver video via the web and mobile devices. Flash is supported by almost every web browser and many mobile devices. It uses a powerful scripting language, ActionScript, allowing you to create fully-featured applications that will run the same on all supported platforms.

This CS5 version of Flash has a wealth of new features. Its Text Layout Framework gives you enhanced control over typography. You'll be able to use the Code Snippets panel to find commonly-used ActionScript commands, perfect for insertion into the enhanced ActionScript editor. The Bones tool allows you to create inverse kinematic effects, and the Deco tool gives you access to a comprehensive set of animation effects and brushes.

Features

Text Engine

Take complete control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework. Work with columns and bidirectional text, and maintain layout and formatting with greater fidelity when importing from other Adobe products

Creative Suite Integration

Enhance productivity when working with Adobe Creative Suite components such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Flash Builder

ActionScript Editing

Increase development speed with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion. Use Flash Builder as your primary ActionScript editor for Adobe Flash Professional projects

Inverse Kinematics

Take advantage of advanced motion capabilities and visually add realistic physics effects with new Strength and Damping settings for the Bones tool. Create natural, chainlike motion with a simple, familiar interface

Video Improvements

Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector. See and playback FLV components directly on the stage

XML-Based FLA Source Files

Manage and modify projects using source control systems and collaborate on files more easily. An XML-based nonbinary implementation of the FLA format allows projects and associated assets to function as items in a directory or folder

Code Snippets Panel

Reduce the ActionScript 3.0 learning curve and enable greater creativity by injecting prebuilt code into projects. Quickly include functional code for things like timeline navigation, actions, animation, audio and video, and event handlers

Object-Based Animation Model

Use object-based animation and visually achieve granular control over motion attributes with the Motion Editor. Develop interactive content more efficiently with the Motion Preset panel that offers prebuilt motion effects and lets you create, save, and share your own

Advanced Native Drawing Tools

Author expressive interactive content with easy-to-use tools. Draw stylized shapes and transform them into complex patterns and effects, and animate 2D objects through 3D space with 3D transformation tools

Support for an Extensive Number of Device Runtimes

Deliver interactive content consistently for more runtimes across personal computers, mobile devices including the iPhone, and screens of virtually any size and resolution, and leverage integration with Adobe Device Central for enhanced testing and debugging 1

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Web Design

Text Engine

Take complete control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework

XML-Based FLA Source Files

Collaborate on projects more easily with a new XML-based implementation of the FLA file format. Uncompressed projects appear and act like folders, allowing you to quickly manage and modify assets such as images

Code Snippets Panel

Speed project completion by using convenient prewritten code snippets for common actions, animation, audio and video insertion, and more. Also discover an easier way to learn the ActionScript 3.0 language

Wide Content Distribution

Publish content virtually anywhere, using Adobe AIR for desktop applications and mobile platforms including the iPhone, or Adobe Flash Player for browser-based experiences 2

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Subject to Apple's current requirements and approval

Deco Drawing Tools

Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects

Video Improvements

Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage

Creative Suite Integration

Enhance productivity when using Flash Professional together with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Flash Builder

Spring for Bones

Add expressive, lifelike animation properties like spring and bounce with new motion attributes added to the Bones tool. An improved inverse kinematics engine provides more realistic and complex physics movements within a simple, familiar interface

ActionScript Editor

Speed up the development process with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion. Quickly grasp the fundamentals of ActionScript, and efficiently reference your own code or external code libraries

Flash Builder Integration

Work more closely with developers who can use your Flash project files with Flash Builder to test, debug, and publish your content more efficiently

Web Application Development

XML-Based FLA Source Files

Manage and modify projects using source control systems and collaborate on files more easily. An XML-based nonbinary implementation of the FLA format allows projects and associated assets to function as items in a directory or folder

ActionScript Editor

Speed the development process with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion. Start projects and grasp the fundamentals of ActionScript more quickly, or reference your own code or external code libraries efficiently

Wide Content Distribution

Publish content virtually anywhere, using Adobe AIR for desktop applications and mobile platforms including the iPhone, or Adobe Flash Player for browser-based experiences 3

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Please Note:

Subject to Apple's current requirements and approval

Spring for Bones

Create more realistic inverse kinematic effects with new motion attributes added to the Bones tool. Strength and Damping settings provide more realistic and complex physics movements within a simple, familiar interface

Video Improvements

Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage

Deco Drawing Tools

Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects

Code Snippets Panel

Quickly include functional code for things like timeline navigation, actions, animation, audio and video, and event handlers. Reduce the ActionScript 3.0 learning curve and enable greater creativity by injecting prebuilt code into projects

Text Engine

Get global bidirectional language support and a set of advanced print-quality typography APIs via the new Text Layout Framework. Format text in columns and maintain layout and formatting with greater fidelity when importing content from other Adobe products

Creative Suite Integration

Enhance productivity when using Flash Professional together with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Flash Builder

Interactive and Video Projects

Video Improvements

Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with video scrubbing directly on the stage and a new way to work with cue points. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage

XML-Based FLA Source Files

Collaborate on projects more easily with a new XML-based implementation of the FLA file format. Uncompressed projects appear and function like folders, allowing you to quickly manage and modify assets such as images

Creative Suite Integration

Enhance productivity when working with Adobe Creative Suite components such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Flash Builder

Text Engine

Take complete control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework. Work with columns and bidirectional text, and maintain layout and formatting with greater fidelity when importing from other Adobe products

Deco Drawing Tools

Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects

Flash Builder Integration

Work more closely with developers who can use your Adobe Flash Professional project files with Flash Builder to test, debug, and publish your content more efficiently

Code Snippets Panel

Quickly include functional code for things like audio and video control, timeline navigation, actions, animation, and more. Reduce the ActionScript 3.0 learning curve and enable greater creativity by injecting prebuilt code into projects

Wide Content Distribution

Publish content virtually anywhere, using Adobe AIR for desktop applications and mobile platforms including the iPhone, or Adobe Flash Player for browser-based experiences 4

close

Please Note:

Subject to Apple's current requirements and approval

Spring for Bones

Add expressive, lifelike animation properties like spring and bounce with new motion attributes added to the Bones tool. An improved inverse kinematics engine provides more realistic and complex physics movements within a simple, familiar interface

ActionScript Editor

Speed the development process with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion. Quickly grasp the fundamentals of ActionScript, and efficiently reference your own code or external code