Friday, May 11, 2012

The New Features of Adobe Flash Professional CS6

The Adobe Creative Suite 6 was released last May 07, 2012, and with it comes Adobe Flash Professional CS6. Here are some of it's new features:

  • the ability to create and export sprite sheets from symbols on the Stage and in the library
  • a new SWF compression type based on LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm), which can reduce the file size by up to 40%
  • ability to export animations from Flash out to HTML5 through the Toolkit for CreateJS extension
  • captive AIR runtime support for Android, OS X, and Windows
  • the new Content Simulator, an AIR application that helps you simulate how your content will behave on a mobile device
  • Flash Professional CS6 projects are now compatible with AIR native extensions for advanced users with the advent of AIR 3.2
  • the ability to list additional languages that your application can be installed in
  • iOS debugging via wi-fi now lets you add breakpoints, step in and out of functions, and watch variables

If you're a beginner who's just purchased the Adobe Flash Professional CS6 program, check out the Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Essential Training course so that you can get the most out of this amazing program. You can get a free 7-day trial for complete access to this entire 8-hour online video training course by lynda.com.