Adobe Flash Professional CS5

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is the top software for interactive content and delivery of immersive experiences that is widely represented across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of any size and resolution. Flash Professional received new features for text editing, enhanced tools for collaborative work on project, added new code fragments and so on. With new tool Packager you can create AIR-applications for IPhone. Complete support of Android, BlackBerry and Palm webOS in near future will be integrated.

Top features

New text engine
Text Layout Framework built into Flash Player 10, enables you to use print-quality typographic functionality. Support for the Text Layout Framework provides abundant, multilingual typographic control and a comprehensive set of APIs to manipulate text content, layout, and markup. New text engine in Flash Professional CS5 maintains layout and text formatting with greater precision when importing content from Adobe InDesign software and other Adobe products.

Print-quality typographic control
Advanced text styling such as kerning, ligatures, tracking, leading, superscript, subscript, discretionary hyphens, margins, hypertext, baseline shift, typographic case, digit case (oldstyle/lining figures), and digit width (proportional/tabular figures); advanced text-layout controls including threaded text blocks; the selection, editing and flowing of text across multiple columns; linked images; text wrap; and inline images (supporting PNG, JPG, SWF, or any Flash Player DisplayObject).

Global language support
The Text Layout Framework represents advanced multilingual typographic and layout features to Flash Professional CS5. Support includes the ability to display and edit not just right-to-left scripts, but also top-to-bottom scripts, and those that often use a mixture of left-to-right and right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. New text engine offers additional features for East Asian typography, including an East Asian justifier, vertical text support, and Tate-Chu-Yoko, or blocks of horizontal text embedded into vertical runs of text.

Advanced inline text editing
Work efficiently and more productive with Flash Professional CS5. In addition to cut, copy, paste, find, replace, and spell-check functionality and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing (Ctrl/Command, Home/End, double-click), a new Selection mode allows text to be treated as read-only, read-select, or read-write.

Advanced rendering support
The Text Layout Framework builds on the history of consistent high-quality playback and display across multiple devices in Flash Player by adding support for transparency and for device and embedded fonts. A new embedded font format (DefineFont4) provides improved typography features, international support, and reduced file sizes.

Ability to distribute content almost anywhere
Deliver concertedly across screens of practically any size and use Adobe Device Central for enhanced device testing. The Distribution service offers free and paid methods for distributing applications to social networks, mobile devices, and desktops. It also enables developers and businesses to track the distribution of and user engagement with their applications, and enables monetization of applications through ad hosting.

XML-based FLA source files
Flash Professional CS5 uses an XML-based implementation of the FLA file format called XFL, offering advanced cross-product integration and workflow productivity. This compact and efficient file format accurately maintains data in a Flash document and makes the individual elements easier to manage and use. With better support for multiuser environments and cross-product compatibility, the XML-based format in Flash Professional offers the following benefits: uncompressed format allows several users on a team to work on the same project simultaneously; integration with source control systems is now possible because each developer can work on separate assets in the XFL package; mobile developers can work on the same files as other developers.

Code Snippets panel
Flash Professional CS5 provides advanced options to include code for such elements like timeline navigation, actions, animation, audio and video, and event handlers with the Code Snippets panel. Inject prebuilt code into projects to save time for creativity.

Enhanced ActionScript editor
Increase development speed with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion, and reference your own code or external code libraries more efficiently. Flash Professional CS5 can automatically write the import statement for libraries, and more experienced and advanced developers can quickly reference their own code or any external code libraries.

Improved Creative Suite integration
Flash Professional is an integral part of all Creative Suite 5 Premium editions. Flash Professional CS5 adds more options to work directly with other Creative Suite 5 components, including: edit bitmaps in Photoshop with the new Edit With Photoshop CS5 command; export and open complex graphics via the FXG format in Illustrator; place finished SWF files into Flash Catalyst projects; use Flash Builder as ActionScript code-authoring environment; open content from InDesign with precise text fidelity; import FXG files from Fireworks.

Flash Builder integration
Adobe Flash Builder is a professional Eclipse-based developer tool that enables intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual design of the user interface and behavior for Flex applications. Now write your ActionScript code in Flash Builder and then test, debug, and publish content in Flash Professional.

Spring for Bones
With Flash Professional CS5, Adobe integrates the force of a dynamic physics engine into the Inverse Kinematics (IK) system. This engine allows users to create lifelike animation easily, and gives powerful functionality that is supported for runtime and authortime. Spring gives IK animation movement that is fully configurable.

Video improvements
With integrated support for content created with Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe After Effects software, work with video content directly in Flash Professional CS5. Streamline embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and the ability to define cue points right in the Properties panel. Flash Professional CS5 also includes Adobe Media Encoder, enabling you to convert any file format to FLV or F4V.

New Deco drawing tools
Flash Professional CS5 extends the functionality of the dynamic Deco brush tools, enabling you to easily draw shapes and add advanced animation effects.

System requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM
• 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
•  QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features