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| Introduction | |
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| A Note from Lynda Weinman | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Our Team | |
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| Acknowledgements from Kymberlee | |
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| Acknowledgements from Garo | |
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| How To Use This Book | |
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| The Formatting in This Book | |
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| Interface Screen Captures | |
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| Mac and Windows System Differences | |
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| Sharing Files with Windows Users | |
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| A Note to Windows Users | |
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| Making Exercise Files Editable on Windows Systems | |
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| Making File Extensions Visible on Windows Systems | |
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| Flash System Requirements | |
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| What's on the CD-ROM? | |
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| Background Information | |
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| Download Speed | |
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| Visual Control! | |
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| Enhanced Interactivity | |
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| Combine Vectors and Bitmaps | |
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| Scalability | |
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| Streaming Content | |
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| Caution: Plug-in Required! | |
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| Beyond Flash | |
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| What is Generator? | |
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| What's CGI? | |
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| The Flash Interface | |
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| The Document Window | |
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| The Layer Controls | |
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| The Panels | |
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| Creating Panel Sets | |
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| Saving Panel Sets | |
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| Changing Panel Layouts | |
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| Custom Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Creating a New Shortcut Set | |
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| Using the Color Tools | |
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| What is Web-Safe Color Anyway? | |
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| What Is Hexadecimal Color? | |
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| Using the Mixer | |
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| Adding Colors to Palettes | |
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| Importing Palettes | |
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| Creating Gradients | |
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| Editing Gradients | |
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| Using the Drawing Tools | |
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| Drawing Tools Explained | |
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| Lines, Fills, and Strokes Explained | |
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| About the Pencil | |
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| Drawing With the Pencil | |
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| Modifying Lines | |
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| Drawing with the Pen | |
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| Modifying Lines | |
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| Using the Oval and Rectangle | |
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| Using the Brush | |
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| Modifying Fills | |
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| Multiple Objects | |
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| Grouping Objects | |
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| Animation Basics | |
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| The Timeline | |
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| Projects and Movies | |
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| Movie Properties | |
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| What is a Keyframe? | |
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| Keyframes in Flash | |
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| Frame-by-Frame Animation with Keyframes | |
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| Blank Keyframes and Onion Skinning | |
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| Keyframes with Erasing Content | |
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| Understanding Frame Rate | |
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| What is a Frame Rate? | |
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| Recommended Frame Rates in Flash | |
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| Inserting and Deleting Frames | |
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| Copying and Reversing Frames | |
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| Testing Movies | |
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| Shape Tweening | |
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| What is Shape Tweening? | |
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| What shape tweening can do | |
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| What shape tweening can't do | |
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| Shape Tweening | |
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| Shape Hinting | |
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| Multiple Shape Hints | |
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| Animating Gradients | |
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| Animated Glows | |
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| Shape Tweening Text | |
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| Tweening Shapes with Holes | |
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| Multiple Shape Tweens | |
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| Symbols and Instances | |
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| The Symbol and Instance Structure | |
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| Symbol Naming Conventions | |
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| Creating Graphic Symbols | |
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| Creating More Symbols | |
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| Creating Symbol Instances | |
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| Editing Symbols | |
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| Editing Symbol Instances | |
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| Transforming Instances | |
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| Animated Graphic Symbols | |
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| The Effect Panel | |
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| Important Timeline Vocabulary Terms | |
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| Motion Tweening | |
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| Shape Tween Versus Motion Tween | |
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| Basic Motion Tweening | |
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| Tweening Effects | |
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| Editing Multiple Frames | |
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| Using a Motion Guide | |
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| Motion Tweening Text | |
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| Exploding Text | |
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| Text Motion Tweening Options and Limitations | |
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| Bitmaps | |
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| Benefits of Bitmaps | |
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| Importing and Compressing Bitmaps | |
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| Importing Bitmap Sequences | |
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| Bitmap Fills | |
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| Breaking Apart Bitmaps | |
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| Converting Bitmaps to Vectors | |
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| Basic Masking | |
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| Animated Masks | |
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| Effects with Bitmaps: Fading Up and Down | |
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| Effects with Bitmaps: Cross Dissolve | |
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| Buttons | |
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| Button States | |
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| Button Types | |
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| Rollover Buttons | |
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| Testing and Previewing Buttons | |
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| Rollover Buttons Modified | |
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| Duplicating and Aligning Buttons | |
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| Invisible Buttons | |
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| Adding Sound to Buttons | |
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| Movie Clips | |
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| What is a Movie Clip? | |
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| Animated Graphic Symbol versus Movie Clip Symbol | |
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| Modifying Movie Clip Instances | |
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| Creating a Movie Clip | |
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| Creating an Animated Rollover Button | |
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| ActionScripting Basics | |
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| The Actions Panel Defined | |
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| Object Actions: Stop and Play | |
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| Frame Actions: Stop | |
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| Interactivity and Actions: Events and Event Handlers | |
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| Mouse Events | |
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| Keyboard Events | |
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| Time-based Events | |
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| Go To Frame Action (Slide Show) | |
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| On Mouse Event: Get URL | |
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| Basic Drop-down Menu | |
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| What Are Scenes? | |
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| Drop-down Menu Targeting Scenes | |
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| What is LoadMovie? | |
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| Loading Movies | |
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| What is a Preloader? | |
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| Preloader | |
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| The Toolbox List | |
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| The Basic Actions List | |
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| Working with Text | |
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| Text Box Types | |
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| Label Text | |
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| Block Text | |
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| Editable Text | |
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| Creating, Modifying and Formatting Text | |
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| Character Panel | |
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| Paragraph Panel | |
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| Static Text | |
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| Text Options Panel: Static Text | |
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| Embedded Fonts vs. Device Fonts | |
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| Working with Static Text | |
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| Character Attributes Gallery | |
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| Dynamic Text | |
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| Text Options Panel: Dynamic Text | |
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| Text Options Gallery | |
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| Working with Dynamic Text | |
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| Working with Dynamic Text and HTML | |
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| Input Text | |
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| Text Options Panel: Input Text | |
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| Input Text | |
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| What is a Font Symbol? | |
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| Font Symbols | |
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| Sound | |
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| Importing Sounds | |
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| Compressing Sound | |
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| Creating Background Sound with Sound Effects | |
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| The Sound Panel | |
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| Effect | |
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| Sync | |
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| Loops | |
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| Edit button | |
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| Controlling Sound with On/Off Buttons | |
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| Sound Synchronizing | |
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| Publishing | |
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| What Types of Content Can Flash Publish? | |
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| Flash and HTML | |
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| Creating Projectors | |
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| Modifying Projectors with FS Commands | |
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| More About Publish Settings | |
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| Formats Tab | |
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| Filename | |
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| Type | |
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| Flash Settings | |
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| HTML Settings | |
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| GIF Settings (.gif) | |
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| JPEG Settings (.jpeg) | |
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| PNG Settings (.png) | |
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| QuickTime | |
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| Real Player | |
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| Projector files | |
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| Top Tips for Optimizing Movies | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| Layer Management | |
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| Examining Scenes | |
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| Library Organization | |
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| Investigating the Library | |
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| Using the Movie Controller | |
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| The Movie Explorer | |
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| Recreating the Oak Tree Project | |
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| Adding Buttons and Scenes | |
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| Swapping Symbols and Modifying Button Behavior | |
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| Instance Properties Panel | |
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| Cleaning Up the Scenes and Adding Stop Actions | |
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| Finishing the Main Scene | |
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| Finishing the OakTrees Scene | |
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| Finishing the Acorn Scene | |
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| Finishing the Preservation Scene | |
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| Printing from the Project File | |
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| Printing from the Flash Player | |
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| Integration | |
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| Bringing Fireworks Content Into Flash | |
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| Editing PNG Files in Flash | |
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| Importing FreeHand Content as Keyframes | |
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| The FreeHand Import Dialog Box | |
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| Importing FreeHand Content as Scenes | |
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| Dreamweaver and Flash | |
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| QuickTime | |
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| The QuickTime Dialog Box | |
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| Illustrator Files Into Flash | |
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| Troubleshooting FAQ | |
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| Flash Resources | |
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| Macromedia Exchange for Flash | |
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| Macromedia Discussion Groups | |
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| Third-Party Flash Web Sites | |
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| Flashforward 2001 | |
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| Forward Society | |
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| CD-ROMs from Lynda.com | |
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| CDs from Flashforward | |
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| Technical Support | |
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| Macromedia Technical Support | |
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| Peachpit Press | |
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| Iynda.com | |
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| Index | |