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Publishing a Flash Movie

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How to Publish your Flash Files

Go to: File > Publish

This will create a group of files. Exactly which files this will create, what they are called and where they are located will depend on the Publish Settings.

To look at the settings go to: File > Publish Settings

Publish Settings

Default Names and Location   

If you have: Use Default Names selected Flash will create all the files in the publication group with the same name and in the same location on your computer as the original Flash file. Although they all have the same name they will each have a different file extension. If you deselect this you can type individual file names and locations for each of the files in the group.

Location Folders

The folder where you wish to save your file must already exist. So you must use My Computer or some other file management program to create the folder before you publish the group of files. So if I type:

images/myShockwave.swf

The file will go into a sub-folder called: images

The file will be called: myShockwave.swf

Naming

Names for files and folders must conform to standard Internet conventions:

•  You cannot use spaces.
•  You cannot use punctuation except for hyphen - and underscore _
•  Remember that the Internet is case sensitive.

Flash (.swf) Shockwave file   

This is the absolute minimum that you need to publish. It is the file that you need to upload to the web. If you are not publishing to the web but using the Flash file on a CD or in an email this is still the file that you need.

HTML (.html) Web Page   

This will create a web page with the Shockwave file already embedded and ready to upload to the net.

OK

It is important to realize that the OK button does not Publish any files. It just resets the default Publishing Settings for the Flash file that is open. Any new settings will be activated next time you press the Publish button.

Individual Flash files can all have different default Publishing Settings.

Publish

What publish does is create all of the files that have been selected under Publish Setting. They will be created in accordance with the names and location as specified in the File Name section and any option selected under the individual tabs (which I will look at in a moment).

If you make changes under Publish Settings, to Publish those changes you must click:

1. File > Publish Settings
2. Publish then...
3. OK

If you do not wish to make changes to the Publish Settings you may do the following:

1. Or goto: File > Publish

Both systems of Publishing are the same.