Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies- P22: Welcome to Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies. Our goal when writing this book was to share our enthusiasm for Flash and, at the same time, demystify the application. You can do so many things with Flash that it becomes mind boggling. The minibooks in this reference are designed to take the boggle out of your mind and show you how to use Flash to create Web banners, animations, and other delights. We also delve into the topics of ActionScript and Flash video. | Publishing a Flash File 607 It s also not advisable to increase the dimensions of a file that has bitmap images because they will be distorted. Percent Enables you to specify the percentage of the browser that s filled with the Flash movie. You can manually change these values. However Flash doesn t change the other dimension. Unless you do the math the resulting file will be distorted. 7. In the Playback section you have the following options Paused at Start The movie is paused on the first frame until the user clicks a button or selects a command from the context menu. Loop The default option plays the file and loops it continuously. Display Menu The user has the option of using a context menu when viewing the movie. Users access the context menu by right-clicking Windows or Ctrl clicking Mac . Then they can choose how the file is played in their version of the Flash Player. Device Font Windows only When Flash Player encounters a font not installed on the user s computer it substitutes a smooth-edged system font from the user s computer. 8. Choose one of the following options from the Quality drop-down menu Low Yields a low-quality movie in which playback speed is more important than the quality of the graphics. Anti-aliasing isn t used with this option. Auto Low Favors playback speed over quality when the movie begins playing. However if Flash Player senses that the quality can be improved without sacrificing playback speed it increases the quality as the movie plays. When the movie starts playing anti-aliasing is disabled until Flash Player decides that it can be used without reducing playback speed. Auto-High Starts out playing the movie with high-quality graphics and anti-aliasing. If the frame rate starts to drop Flash Player lowers quality and if necessary disables anti-aliasing. Medium Uses some anti-aliasing but doesn t smooth bitmap images. High Always uses anti-aliasing the default option. High-quality graphics are favored over playback speed. Bitmap .
