MICROMEDIA FLASH 8 Macromedia Flash 8 Take our Macromedia Flash Professional 8 tutorial. Our Mac...
MICROMEDIA FLASH 8
Macromedia Flash 8
Take our Macromedia Flash Professional 8 tutorial. Our Macromedia Flash Professional 8 tutorial covers creating graphics, working with layers, and adding motion, sound, and text to your Flash Professional 8 movie.
This document is for Macromedia Flash 8 developers and addresses issues which are not discussed in the Macromedia Flash 8 documentation or release notes. This document may be updated periodically as more information becomes available.
EXPRESSIVE CAPABILITIES:
Bitmap Effects/Filters
This feature provides expressive graphic effects at runtime without significantly increasing the SWF file size. Some of the new filters are Blur, DropShadow, Glow, Bevel, Gradient Glow, Gradient Bevel, Displacement Map, Convolution, and Color Matrix.
Advanced Text Rendering (FlashType)
Advanced Text Rendering leverages a new anti-aliasing technology that renders fonts at very high quality, especially at small point sizes. The new text engine combines exceptional readability while maintaining the aesthetic "look and feel" of the fonts.
Scale 9 (or 9-Slice Scaling)
Scale 9 applies "component" scaling to shapes and movie clips. When grid scaling is applied, the curvature of corners does not change while the center stretches. This allows the developer to utilize high performance, component-style scaling of vector images.
Blend Modes
This feature introduces a MovieClip property that filters colors and alpha display of all elements at lower depths. It is similar to Blending Modes applied to layers in Macromedia Fireworks.
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