Adobe FLASH PLAYER 10 User manual

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ADOBE®FLASH®PLAYER 10
Deliver breakthrough, cross-platform web experiences
Adobe Flash Player 10 is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application (RIA)
runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video
playback, and pervasive reach. Flash Player 10 introduces new expressive features, visual
performance improvements, and extensibility to unleash the creative potential of
designers and developers so they can build richer and more immersive web experiences.
Get expressive with custom lters and eects
With Adobe Flash Player 10, developers now
have the exibility to create and share lters,
blend modes, and lls for unprecedented
creative control. Using Adobe Pixel Bender™
technology, developers can write small pixel-
shading functions that can be parameterized
to animate or change the eect at runtime.
Custom lters and eects execute on the new,
high-performance Pixel Bender just-in-time
(JIT) compiler and can be applied to all display
objects, including vectors, bitmaps, and video,
while retaining full interactivity. Pixel Bender
can also be used to process other types of data,
such as sound or mathematical functions,
asynchronously in a separate thread from the
ActionScript® programming language.
Bring objects to life with 3D eects
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces and
unique eects with native 3D transformation
and animation capabilities that easily manipulate
interactive 2D display objects through 3D space.
Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use
APIs, along with new 3D tools in Adobe Flash
CS4 Professional soware, make motion that
was previously accessible to expert users via
ActionScript or custom third-party libraries
available to everyone.
Manipulate text in new ways
e new, exible text layout engine enables
innovation in creating text controls. In addition
to new layout and typographic capabilities,
device fonts can now be anti-aliased, rotated,
and styled. An extensible library of ActionScript
3.0 text components provides advanced,
easy-to-integrate layout functionality to ow
text and complex scripts across multiple
columns, around tables and inline images,
from right to le, from le to right, or vertically.
Create richer, more responsive
user experiences
By leveraging the power of the graphics
processing unit (GPU) for blitting and
compositing, Flash Player 10 reduces the load
on the central processing unit (CPU) and can
provide a performance boost to graphically
intense applications for more uid, realistic,
responsive user experiences.
Design with enhanced drawing and
sound APIs
Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful
with restyleable properties; 3D APIs; and a new,
more ecient way of drawing sophisticated
shapes. New sound APIs enable application-
level audio mixing through ActionScript
and audio ltering with Adobe Pixel Bender,
enabling greater creative freedom that extends
beyond the visual experience.

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FlashMediaServer3.5
Top reasons to adopt Adobe Flash Player 10
Expressive creative options
Engage users with highly innovative and
cinematic experiences using custom eects
and lters created with Adobe Pixel Bender
and native 3D eects. Innovate with text to
create new types of publications using an
advanced text engine, typographic control,
and new layout options.
High-performance runtime
Flash Player 10 leverages the GPU to deliver
faster performance for applications and videos.
e vector data type, multicore support, and
open source ActionScript Virtual Machine 2
(AVM2) all contribute to highly scalable
code execution performance. Text-rendering
improvements boost performance and rendering
quality for Asian languages.
Easy, cross-platform deployment
Rapid adoption of new releases of Flash Player
allows developers to design content with the
latest features and target the majority of users
within a matter of months. Create content
that can be accessed in a consistent, reliable,
backwards-compatible, and more secure
manner across all major operating systems
and browsers.
Enhanced audio and video
Deliver stunning audio/video experiences
using industry-standard codecs such as H.264,
HE-AAC, and MP3. e new, high-delity
Speex voice codec delivers a low-latency audio
experience. Show full-screen, HD-quality video
that can automatically adjust to changing
bandwidth conditions for smooth playback.
Freedom to extend Flash Player
Extend the runtime capabilities of Flash Player
10 to create user experiences never before
possible in the browser. Access to low-level
APIs allows developers to create their own text
components and special eects. Leverage the
power of the new, multi-threaded Pixel Bender
JIT compiler for other advanced calculations,
such as sound generation, or create new
application capabilities through ActionScript
that run on the high-performance AVM2.
System interoperability
Create applications that integrate smoothly
with the browser, leverage local system
resources, and provide users with a safer and
more secure experience. Bring users into the
experience by letting them use a read/write
clipboard, upload and save les locally,
and connect using a webcam/microphone.
Easily make applications accessible to users
with disabilities.
Network interoperability
Create applications that communicate and
integrate with the network and remote
resources while providing users with a safer
and more secure experience. Design with
support for standard Internet protocols in
addition to advanced communications such
as remoting, asynchronous communications,
and binary sockets.
Advancing web innovation
Adobe’s commitment to advancing innovation
through the use and contribution of open
technologies enables developers to deliver
consistent, dierentiated web experiences.
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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.