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Gain unprecedented creative control with new expressive features and visual performance improvements
in Adobe Flash Player 10.
Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over
98 of Internet users.
DID YOU KNOW...
Custom filters and effects unleash creativity
Create and share filters, blend modes, and fills that execute on the high-performance Adobe Pixel
Bender JIT compiler.
Web experiences come to life with 3D effects
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in 3D transformation and animation
capabilities without being a 3D master.
Print-quality publishing comes to the web
Leveraging Adobe s expertise in text, gain more control over text layout to flow text across
multiple columns, around inline images, bidirectionally, or vertically.
Top features
3D effects New
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in support for 3D effects. 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 APIs, along with 3D tools in Adobe Flash CS4
Professional software, make motion that was previously accessible only to expert users via
ActionScript language or custom third-party libraries available to everyone.
Custom filters and effects New
Create high-performance, real-time effects for cinematic experiences that quickly engage users. With
new Adobe Pixel Bender , the same technology behind many filters and effects in Adobe After
Effects software, these dynamic and interactive effects can be used both in production with
After Effects CS4 and live with Flash Player 10. The Pixel Bender just-in- time JIT compiler can
also be used to process other types of data, such as sound or mathematical functions, asynchronously
in a separate thread.
Advanced text support New
Take advantage of a new, flexible text engine that brings print-quality publishing to the web,
building on more than 25 years of Adobe expertise in typography. Gain more control over text layout
using the Text Layout Framework, an extensible library built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash
Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich,
sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. Create multilingual web applications using
device fonts that can now be anti-aliased, rotated, and styled, or build your own unique text
components.
Dynamic sound generation New
Use enhanced sound APIs to dynamically generate audio and create new types of audio applications
such as music mixers and sequencers, real-time audio for games, and even audio visualizers. Work
with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level by extracting audio data and supplying it to the sound
buffer.
Process, filter, and mix audio in real time through the Pixel Bender JIT compiler to extend creative
freedom beyond the visual experience.
Drawing API Enhanced
Perform runtime drawing more easily with restyleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing
sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line. Developers can tweak parts of curves,
change styling, replace parts, and use custom filters and effects, delivering improved throughput,
creative control, and greater productivity. Enhancements to the Drawing API add the z dimension,
real perspective, textured meshes in 3D space, a retained graphics model, read/write rendering, and
triangle drawing with UV coordinates, while adding memory and improving performance.
Hardware acceleration Enhanced
Use the hardware processing power of the graphics card to paint SWF files into the browser and
accelerate compositing calculations of bitmaps, filters, blend modes, and video overlays faster than
would be performed in software.
Vector data type New
Use the new typed array class for better performance, efficiency, and error checking of data.
Dynamic Streaming New
Show exceptional video with streams that automatically adjust to changing network conditions.
Leverage new quality-of-service metrics to provide a better streaming experience.
Speex audio codec New
Take advantage of the new, high-fidelity and open source Speex voice codec, which offers a
low-latency alternative for voice encoding.
Flash Player also supports ADPCM, HE-AAC, MP3, and Nellymoser audio.
File upload and download APIs Enhanced
Bring users into the experience by letting them load and save files from your web application. New
file reference runtime access allows local processing of data without roundtripping to the server.
Color correction New
Deliver web applications with accurate color, so your favorite web destinations look the way they
were intended. Color correction works with the monitor s ICC color profile and allows you to convert
SWF files to standard RGB.
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