Adobe Flash Professional
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Adobe Flash Professional is a multimedia authoring program used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform, such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices.
History
Adobe Flash Professional is the successor of
a software product known as FutureSplash
Animator, a vector graphics and vector animations program released
in May 1996. FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave
Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch,
was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. In 1995, the
company decided to add animation capabilities to their product and to create a
vector-based animation platform for the World Wide Web; hence FutureSplash Animator
was created. Initially, the only way to deploy such animations on the web was
through the use of Java platform; however, the Java platform was
later replaced with the Netscape's plug-in architecture. The FutureSplash
animation technology was used on several notable websites such as MSN,
the official The Simpsons website and Disney Daily Blast of The Walt Disney
Company.
In December 1996, Macromedia bought
FutureWave and so re-branded and released FutureSplash Animator as Macromedia Flash v1.0. In 2005, Adobe Systems acquired
Macromedia; subsequently, in 2007, Adobe
Flash CS3 Professional, the next version of Macromedia Flash was released.
Versions
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Release
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Year
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Description
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FutureSplash
Animator
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1996
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Initial
version of Flash with basic editing tools and a timeline
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Macromedia
Flash 1
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1996
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A
re-branded version of the FutureSplash Animator
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Macromedia
Flash 2
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1997
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Released
with Flash Player 2, new features included: the object library
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Macromedia
Flash 3
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1998
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Released
with Flash Player 3, new features included: the movieclip element, JavaScript plug-in
integration, transparency and an external stand alone player
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Macromedia
Flash 4
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1999
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Macromedia
Flash 5
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2000
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Macromedia
Flash MX (6)
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2002
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Released
with Flash Player 6, new features included: a video codec (Sorenson Spark), Unicode, v1 UI Components, compression,
ActionScript vector drawing API
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Macromedia
Flash MX 2004 (7)
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2003
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Released
with Flash Player 7, new features included: Actionscript 2.0 (which enabled
an object-oriented programming model for Flash,
although it lacked the Script assist function of other versions, meaning
Actionscript could only be typed out manually), behaviors, extensibility
layer (JSAPI), alias text support, timeline effects. Macromedia Flash MX
Professional 2004 included all Flash MX 2004 features, plus: Screens (forms
for non-linear state-based development and slides for organizing content in a
linear slide format like PowerPoint), web services integration,
video import wizard, Media Playback components (which encapsulate a complete
MP3 and/or FLV player in a component that may be placed in an SWF), Data
components (DataSet, XMLConnector, WebServicesConnector, XUpdateResolver,
etc.) and data binding APIs, the Project Panel, v2 UI components, and
Transition class libraries.
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Macromedia
Flash 8
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2005
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Macromedia
Flash Basic 8, a less feature-rich version
of the Flash authoring tool[citation needed] targeted
at new users who only want to do basic drawing, animation and interactivity.
Released with Flash Player 8, this version of the product has limited support
for video and advanced graphical and animation effects. Macromedia Flash
Professional 8 added features focused on expressiveness, quality, video, and
mobile authoring. New features included Filters and blend modes, easing
control for animation, enhanced stroke properties (caps and joins),
object-based drawing mode, run-time bitmap caching, FlashType advanced anti-aliasing for text, On2 VP6 advanced
video codec, support for alpha transparency in video, a stand-alone encoder
and advanced video importer, cue point support in FLV files, an advanced
video playback component, and an interactive mobile device emulator.
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Adobe
Flash CS3 (9) Professional
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2007
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Flash
CS3 is the first version of Flash released under the Adobe name. CS3 features
full support for ActionScript 3.0, allows entire applications to be converted
into ActionScript, adds better integration with other Adobe products such
as Adobe
Photoshop, and also provides better Vector drawing behavior,
becoming more like Adobe
Illustrator and Adobe Fireworks.
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Adobe
Flash CS4 (10) Professional
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2008
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Contains inverse
kinematics (bones), basic 3D object manipulation, object-based animation, a
text engine, and further expansions to ActionScript 3.0. CS4 allows the
developer to create animations with many features absent in previous
versions.
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Adobe
Flash Professional CS5 (11)
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2010
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Flash
CS5 was released on April 12, 2010 and launched for trialling and normal
buying on April 30, 2010. Flash CS5 Professional includes support for
publishing iPhone applications. However,
on April 8, 2010 Apple changed the terms of its Developer License to
effectively ban the use of the Flash-to-iPhone compiler and on April 20,
2010 Adobe announced that they will be making no additional investments in
targeting the iPhone and iPad in Flash CS5.
Other features of Flash CS5 are a new text engine (TLF),
further improvement to inverse
kinematics, and the Code Snippets panel.
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Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5
(11.5)
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2011
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Flash Professional CS5.5 was
released in 2011. It includes improved support for publishing iPhone applications, following Apple's revision of their iOS
developer terms. Flash CS5.5 also contains several features to improve mobile
app workflows across devices. Some examples are: Content scaling and stage
resizing, copy and paste layers, sharing symbols across FLA files, symbol
rasterization, incremental compilation, auto-save and file recovery, and
integration with CS Live online services.
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Adobe Flash Professional CS6 (12)
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2012
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Adobe Flash Professional CS6 was
released in 2012. It includes support for publishing files as HTML5 and
generating sprite sheets.
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