Adobe FLASH PLAYER 10 - AT A GLANCE User manual

At A Glance
Gain unprecedented creative control with new expressive features and visual
performance improvements in Adobe Flash Player 10, the pervasive browser
plug-in for cross-platform, rich Internet experiences.
ADOBE®FL ASH ®PLAYER 10
Deliver breakthrough, cross-platform Web experiences
Ground-breaking new features in Flash Player 10 enable designers and developers to:
Get expressive with custom lters and eects using Adobe Pixel Bender™
Developers now have the exibility to
create and share their own high
performance, real time eects to create
cinematic experiences that quickly engage
users. Using Adobe Pixel Bender, the same
technology behind many lters and eects
in Adobe Aer Eects®, these dynamic and
interactive eects can be used in both
production with Aer Eects CS4 and live
on Flash Player 10. Shorten production
times with complex lters that have
minimal impact on application size.
Add a new dimension to Web experiences with 3D eects
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in support for 3D eects. Get started
quickly without being a 3D master by designing in 2D and easily transforming and
animating in 3D. Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use with 3D tools in Adobe
Flash® CS4 Professional, make motion that was previously accessible to expert users via
ActionScript or custom third-party libraries available to everyone. Enhancements to the
Drawing API add the “z” dimension, real perspective, textured meshes in 3D space and a
retained graphics model, while improving rendering performance and developer
productivity.
Apply Adobe Pixel Bender lters to live video to
create dynamic and interactive special eects.
Transform and animate interactive text
in 3D.
Easily position, rotate and animate 2D objects without
compromising on performance.

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Flash Player 10 System requirements
Windows®
•450MHzIntel®Pentium®II(orcompatible)processor
•Microsoft®Windows2000,WindowsXP,
Windows Vista,®orWindowsServer®2003–2008
•128MBofRAMand128MBofVRAM
•MicrosoftInternetExplorer6or7,Firefox1.x–3.x,
AOL 9, Safari 3.x, or Opera 9.5
Mac OS
•500MHzPowerPC®G3or1.33GHzIntelCore™
Duo processor
•MacOSXv10.4orv10.5
•128MBofRAMand128MBofVRAM
•PowerPC:Firefox2.xor3.x,AOLforMacOSX,
Opera 9.5, or Safari 3.x
•Intel:Firefox2.xor3.x,Opera9.5,orSafari3.x
Linux®
•800MHzorfasterprocessor
•RedHat®EnterpriseLinux5,openSUSE™11,or
Ubuntu 7 or 8
•512MBofRAMand128MBofVRAM
•AdvancedLinuxSoundArchitecture(ALSA)
•Firefox2.xor3.x
Solaris™
•Solaris10
•128MBofRAMand128MBofVRAM
•Firefox1.5.xorMozilla1.7.x
For complete and up-to-date system
requirements, visit www.adobe.com/products/
ashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs.
Related products
•AdobeFlash®CS4Professional
•AdobeFlex®Builder™3
•AdobePixelBender™
For more information
For more details on Flash Player, visit
www.adobe.com/products/ashplayer.
For the latest Flash Player adoption statistics, visit
www.adobe.com/products/player_census/ashplayer.
For more details on Pixel Bender, visit
www.adobe.com/go/pixelbender_toolkit.
To view or share custom lters and eects,
visit the Pixel Bender Exchange at
www.adobe.com/go/pixelbender.
Bring print-quality, world-class Adobe text to the Web
Building on over 25 years of Adobe
expertise in typography, gain complete
control over text layout to ow text and
sophisticated typographic elements like
ligatures, across multiple columns, around
inline images, bi-directionally, vertically
or chain together multiple text ows.
Create multi-lingual rich Internet
applications using device fonts that can
now be anti-aliased, rotated, and styled or
build your own unique text components.
Process sound in new ways
Enhanced sound APIs enable developers to
dynamically generate audio and create
new types of audio applications such as
music mixers and sequencers, real-time
audio for games or even produce audio
visualizers. Work with loaded MP3 audio
at a lower level by extracting audio data
and supplying it to the sound buer.
Process, lter and mix audio in real-time
through the high performance Pixel
Bender calculation engine.
What Designers and Developers Are Saying about Adobe Flash Player 10
Grant Skinner, CEO and chief architect of gskinner.com:
“With Flash Player 10, developers can enable SWF content to render through the memory
bandwidth and computational horsepower of the GPU hardware processor, freeing up the
CPU to do more -- such as render 3D content and intricate eects, and process complex
business logic. No other browser runtime has these capabilities.”
Ralph Hauwert, owner of UnitZeroOne and a Core Developer of Papervision 3D:
“For interactive designers and developers well-versed in creating 3D experiences, the
revamped drawing API and Pixel Bender language will enable an entirely new depth of
graphics unseen on the Web today.”
Matthew Rechs, chief technology ocer at Schematic:
“e 3D eects now available in Adobe Flash Player 10 will enable us to bring truly
cinematic interfaces to the Web, helping us create experiences that are just as compelling as
those in TV and lm.”
Freddie Laker, CEO and founder of iChameleon Group (now Sapient):
“Our design team continually challenges us with innovative designs that in the past we
couldn’t always duplicate in our websites. Now, Adobe Flash Player 10 lets us push our
creative vision to the nal product.”
Adobe Flash Player 10 — At A Glance
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