Setting specific export options for Macromedia Flash (SWF) format

Once you've decided on an export format as described in About export formats, and have chosen the high-level export options as described in Setting basic export options, you can specify document-level settings for Macromedia Flash (SWF).

It's a good idea to use the Preview Export Compression command and watch the Composition window and the file size indicators to see how your choices affect the size and visual quality of your composition. (See Previewing compositions.)

To specify export options for Macromedia Flash (SWF) format:

1. Choose the general options for exporting as described in Setting basic export options.
2. Verify that you chose Macromedia Flash (SWF) from the format menu at the top of the Format palette.
3. Click the Image Format tab  and select an image format option (for more information on each format, see About export formats):
• JPEG to export JPEG images. Specify the image quality by dragging the Quality slider or entering a value (0-100) in the text box. Specify the opacity resolution by dragging the Opacity Resolution slider or entering a value (0-8) in the text box. Higher values increase the quality of colored areas as well as the file size. Smaller values decrease the file size but can cause banding, an unintended variation in the opacity of colored areas.
• Indexed to export PNG-Indexed images. (See About export formats.) Select compression settings as described for exporting a file in PNG-Indexed format.
• Truecolor to export Truecolor images. Specify the color resolution by dragging the Color Resolution slider or entering a value (1-8) in the text box. Higher values increase the available colors for the palettes and the file size. A value of 8 makes millions of colors available; a value of 1 creates a black-and-white palette. Specify the opacity resolution by dragging the Opacity Resolution slider or entering a value (0-8) in the text box. Higher values increase the quality of colored areas as well as the file size. Smaller values decrease the file size but can cause banding, an unintended variation in the opacity of colored areas.
4. Click the Sound tab  and set the rate for sounds in the MP3 menu. If you're unsure what bit rate to use, choose Auto Bit Rate to make LiveMotion use its built-in algorithm to choose which bit rate it considers best. In this case, it compresses some sounds more than others to retain the sound quality while minimizing the file size.
5. Unless you need stereo output, click the Convert Stereo Sounds to Mono button , to improve sound quality.
6. Click the Text tab  and specify which fonts you want to embed in the exported file. This is useful if you want to make sure the fonts you used in your composition appear in users' Web browsers.
• From the Embed Fonts menu, choose whether you want to embed no fonts (None), the entire font set (Full Set), or just the ones you mark (Partial Set).
• Click the buttons representing the types of characters you want to embed: Embed All Uppercase Fonts , Embed All Lowercase Fonts , Embed All Numbers  , and Embed All Punctuation .
• In the Extra text box, enter any specific characters you want to embed from the font.

Note: If the composition contains text-entry fields and you embed a partial set of fonts, users can enter only those characters in the fields.

7. Click the Animation tab . Specify a frame rate and whether you want to attach or reference movie clips and sounds:
• Choose a frame rate from the Frame Rate menu. Document Rate exports the composition at the same rate chosen in the Composition Settings dialog box. Otherwise, you can choose a specific frame rate from the menu.
• If you are using scripting, you can attach movie clips and sounds with the Attachable and Use External Asset options in the Animation tab. See the Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 Scripting Guide for details.
8. To choose separate export options for individual objects within the composition, see Specifying per-object settings.