Export to Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF)

In ImageReady, you can export a document as a SWF file that can then go directly to the Web or be imported into Macromedia Flash. When creating a SWF file, ImageReady converts animation frames to SWF animation frames. Slices, image maps, and rollovers are lost.

In ImageReady, choose File > Export > Macromedia Flash SWF.

In the Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF) Export dialog box, select from the following Export Options:

• Preserve Appearance to retain the appearance of the PSD file and rasterize a text or shape layer if they cannot be exported natively to SWF. If Preserve Appearance is not selected, effects are dropped from all layers except raster layers during export.
• Generate HTML to generate HTML in addition to the SWF file.

Leave Enable Dynamic Text unselected unless the Photoshop file contains text variables. If the file contains text variables, and you are going to use the SWF file directly on the Web (rather than first importing into Flash), select Enable Dynamic Text. Then specify which characters to embed by choosing None, Full Set, or Partial Set from the Embed Fonts menu. If you choose Partial Set, click any of the following buttons to designate the characters of the partial set, and type specific characters in the Extra text box if necessary:

to include all uppercase characters

to include all lowercase characters

to include all numbers

to include all punctuation

Under Bitmap Options, leave the Format menu set to Auto Select and JPEG Quality set to 80.

Type a name for the SWF file and choose a destination. Click Save.

Click OK.

To export individual layers from a Photoshop file as separate SWF files, choose File > Export > Layers as Files. To export individual animation frames as separate SWF files, choose File > Export > Animation Frames as Files.