Here are tips to improve the display of your PDF files on mobile devices, including how to change page layout to a single column, how to add tags to provide structure, how to optimize the PDF file for quicker use and more.
Sr. Product Manager Tom Barclay gives you the first look at the next generation of Adobe Flash Professional, codenamed Hellcat. Its 64-bit architecture makes it faster and more reliable than ever before. Tom also shows you the updated user interface which has been streamlined for better efficiency.
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Views: 17,608
Added: Mar 27, 2013
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Game developers talk about why they love developing games in Flash: easy workflow, maximum exposure, rapid prototyping, ubiquity of experience across devices, Stage 3D, graphics acceleration, and the ability to distribute to multiple platforms.
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Views: 17,953
Added: May 15, 2012
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Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice introduces Adobe AIR with captive runtime support which will provide seamless compatibility for your desktop applications built with Flash Builder.
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Views: 3,283
Added: Nov 20, 2011
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Platform Evangelist Michael Chaize highlights the differences in UI design when developing apps for tablets or phones, and explains how to quickly adapt your application for either form factor.
In this video, Michael Chaize discusses the complexities of developing UIs for multiple mobile platforms at once, and demonstrates a few tools for managing this process with Flex and Flash Builder.
Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice covers Adobe AIR with captive runtime support for mobile application development, which will benefit your Flash Builder projects for Android OS. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)
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Views: 10,563
Added: Nov 20, 2011
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Developer Evangelist Piotr Walczyszyn walks you through how to create a custom SkinnableContainer Component for mobile applications using Flex and Flash Builder.
Senior Technical Evangelist Greg Wilson showcases a few of his favorite Flex-based apps from the mainstream app marketplaces, such as the Apple App Store, Android Market and the BlackBerry App World.
In this video, Paul Trani uses code snippets in Flash Professional CS5.5 to quickly turn his Flash project into a fully-functional app for mobile devices.
Developer Evangelist Paul Trani shows how easy it is to manipulate entire sets of layers with a new feature in Flash Professional CS5.5 to duplicate aspects of an animation or create After Effects style compositions.
Developer Evangelist Paul Trani applies CSS styling to TLF (Text Layout Framework), showcasing the rich design flexibility of ActionScript coding for Flash Professional CS5.5 projects.
Technical Evangelist Christophe Coenraets leverages Android, Blackberry and iPad app development to create a data visualization app in Flex and Flash Builder.
Christophe Coenraets demonstrates Financial Trader, a cross-platform enterprise financial analytics app featuring 3D charts and real-time updates, which was developed using Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform with Flash Builder.
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Views: 12,433
Added: Jun 19, 2011
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In this video, Duane Nickull explores microphone access in Adobe mobile applications built with Flash Builder 4.5. He creates a simple recording app to run on mobile devices and shares the source code.
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Views: 4,957
Added: Jun 14, 2011
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Part II: Exporting and Finalizing Your PDF. Take a step-by-step look at the new features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat X Pro that make preparing files for accessibility a much faster, easier, and more efficient process.
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Views: 7,140
Added: Jun 12, 2011
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Part I: New Accessibility Features in InDesign CS5.5. Take a step-by-step look at the new features in InDesign CS5.5 that make preparing files for accessibility a much faster, easier, and more efficient process.
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Views: 12,256
Added: Jun 12, 2011
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In this 6-minute video, Sr Computer Scientist Dean Harmon creates a Flex SAP application, demonstrating the "SAP Connector", a new feature in Data Services, with Flash Builder.
Mark Doherty explores the potential offered by the large array of devices you may use everyday. He highlights how to create contextual applications that operate across desktops, mobile phones and tablets.
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Views: 4,257
Added: Jun 06, 2011
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Join members of the AUC community and Adobe for this 36-minute on-demand seminar on how to create accessible PDF files in Acrobat X and from numerous applications like Microsoft Word, InDesign CS5.5, FrameMaker 10, and RoboHelp 9.
Platform Evangelist Tomas Krcha discusses the challenges and opportunities of user interaction in a 3D environment. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)
Platform Evangelist Tomas Krcha introduces the basics of 3D in Flash with a demonstration of the Alternativa 3D Platform Engine. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)
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Views: 7,542
Added: May 09, 2011
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Developer Evangelist Serge Jespers describes how to build a Flex 4.5 application using Flash Builder 4.5. Discover how you can benefit from manipulating components' properties such as improved efficiency in managing data from an xml file.
Developer Evangelist Ryan Stewart explains how the functionality of media queries in Dreamweaver allows designers and developers to easily create custom web experiences across different devices.
Senior Product Manager Scott Fegette introduces the new authoring functionality in Dreamweaver CS5.5 that allows designers and developers to manage, author and publish HTML5 and CSS3-based content.
Scott Fegette explores the new Live View and CSS3 Media Queries features in Dreamweaver CS5.5 that enables web designers and developers to quickly create and test custom web experiences across mobile devices.
Ryan Stewart introduces new features in Flash Professional CS5.5 that make it easier than ever for designers and developers to collaborate on building applications aimed at multiple devices.
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Added: May 02, 2011
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This 30-minute on-demand seminar reviews Adobe's cloud computing services. Join members of the AUC community and Adobe as they provide an overview of Acrobat.com services and where to find them, information on how to use the services in your workflow, interviews, latest news updates, and answers to popular questions.
Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt demonstrates some easy ways of implementing user-interactivity in a Dreamweaver CS5 drawing application in this continuing series on the HTML5 canvas element.
Continuing his series on HTML5 canvas, Kevin Hoyt details some basic drawing functions available with the canvas element, including lines, colors and gradients.
Join Developer Evangelist Kevin Hoyt in this video series that explores how to effectively use the HTML5 canvas element and Dreamweaver CS5 to create rich web experiences that are fully compliant with modern standards.
Doug continues to cover best practices for accessing data in object-oriented programming. In this video, he uses the "get" command to make his custom class' private method act like a regular public variable.
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Views: 3,766
Added: Mar 29, 2011
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Doug fixes a problem in his dice application by changing the way data is transferred between custom classes. This episode highlights best practices for accessing information using getter functions.
To make his dice-rolling simulation more useful, Doug adds attributes to his custom class which work just like normal coding variables for storing and retrieving information.
Doug shows the ActionScript coding needed to bring the dice-rolling application from the last few videos alive. He focuses on the importance of communication among multiple classes in object-oriented programming.
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Views: 5,048
Added: Mar 08, 2011
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Doug demonstrates the difference between public and private methods, and their respective effects, inside custom classes for your Flash Professional projects.
Building on the skills covered in his continuing lesson on object-oriented programming in Flash Professional, Doug highlights how to create mouse events for classes that automatically are part of each instance.
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Views: 4,831
Added: Feb 22, 2011
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In the last few videos, Doug explained the concept of custom classes in object-oriented programming and how to create them. Now Doug introduces the class-specific function known as a method.
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Added: Feb 15, 2011
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Doug further explores the usefulness of customized classes in object-oriented programming in Flash Professional CS5. He also explains more of how the constructor works as he expands the dice project.
Doug explains how to associate a Flash Professional project to a specific class called the Document class, and how to create the class using ActionScript.
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Views: 7,761
Added: Jan 25, 2011
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In this video, Doug opens up a new topic for developers working in Flash Professional CS5. He defines what object-oriented programming means, and explains the role that classes play in an object’s behavior.
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Views: 7,032
Added: Jan 18, 2011
Runtime: 00:02:21
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In this video, Paul Trani showcases the font embedding capabilities of Flash Professional CS5, and explores how these tools ensure the integrity of your design.
Senior Product Manager Deepa Subramaniam explains how the next release of the Flex SDK, “Hero,” displays data in a more dynamic and extensible manner with the new Spark DataGrid component.
In part two of his Flex Mobile series, Narciso Jaramillo builds out more of his mobile Twitter application, showing how to navigate to a new view and customize the display of a list.
In part three of his Flex Mobile series, Narciso Jaramillo demonstrates how easy it is to debug his Twitter app directly on a device, and then packages it for deployment using the preview release of Flash Builder “Burrito.”
In part one of his Flex Mobile series, Narciso Jaramillo walks you through building the first screen of a Twitter app for Android using the preview releases of Flex “Hero” and Flash Builder “Burrito.”
Former Adobe Technical Evangelist Ted Patrick shows how easy it is to publish a Flash project to the Google Nexus One and Droid 2 by Motorola, and also gives a trick for taking different screen sizes into account when designing your app.
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Views: 10,263
Added: Oct 19, 2010
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Get more functionality out of your keyboard by applying new concepts in ActionScript. Doug uses the code snippets in Flash Professional CS5 to program arrow keys to control objects.
Use InDesign and Acrobat Professional to create accessible content for persons with disabilities such as blindness, low vision, or limited mobility. Michael Murphy, Adobe Certified Expert, shows how InDesign can add structure, logical read order, and alternate text to graphics in documents that will be exported to PDF. With some added touch up using Acrobat Professional, these documents can be read using assistive technology such as screen readers and screen magnifiers.
Code snippets can introduce you to working with a TextField and with Text Controls inside ActionScript. Doug Winnie explores this new functionality in Flash Professional CS5.
Complex coding can help you build efficiency and flexibility into a Flash project. Doug explains how to achieve a desired result by combining snippets together.
Drag and drop actions in your Flash Professional project are made easy using code snippets. Doug demonstrates adding an object to the stage, and how to control the behavior of that object.
A timer can act as a stopwatch for your Flash application. In this episode, Doug explores how to efficiently integrate code snippets for timer event handlers.
Web and interactive designers count on Adobe Photoshop software to help them create just the right look for their clients. Now with Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can keep exploring new creative possibilities in web and interactive design. For example, take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to quickly make your pages and designs pop with 3D artwork for logos, buttons, and more. Plus, you get enhanced 3D animation effects with the ability to take your 3D model and easily add an animated depth of field.
You can loop through items in a group with the for loop, as well as combine arrays with loops to run ActionScript statements for each item within a group.
Learn to use the powerful array object in ActionScript as Doug demonstrates how to group multiple items into arrays and then how to access those items.
Doug creates a virtual-dice game to incorporate basic game behaviors using random chance into loops, and then shows how to use the break statement and the if statement.
Repeating actions is best accomplished using loops. Doug introduces the basic for-loop, and walks you through how to customize it and how the for-loop executes.
Doug walks you through the ActionScript code to combine the timer with animation principles, creating timeline-free and random movement of graphical objects.
You can animate purely in ActionScript by reviewing the basic geometry practices of animating. In this video, Doug reviews animation slope, frame rates and other elements to get you ready.
Adobe Platform Evangelist Terry Ryan highlights the functionality of ColdFusion Media Player, the new feature in ColdFusion 9 that allows you to play FLV files.
Doug demonstrates how to test multiple conditions at the same time using logic operators. Learn to customize your project with more control using basic Boolean logic commands.
Conditional tests are only useful if you can do different things based on the results. In this video, Doug shows how to do exactly that with the “if” and “if...else” statements.
Doug shows how to test for different conditions in your application using Equality and Inequality Operators. Follow along as Doug builds a number of conditional statements, and then tests the results.
Information designer David Hogue adds placeholders for slideshows and video in the visual design, then quickly modifies the exported CSS and HTML in Dreamweaver CS4 to make the web page complete.
Information designer David Hogue uses HTML component symbols from the common library and shows the 3-slice technique to make a clean CSS and HTML export from Fireworks CS4.
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Views: 5,892
Added: Jul 22, 2009
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Information designer David Hogue turns a wireframe into a web page by defining the divs, images, and text objects to make a clean CSS and HTML export from Fireworks CS4.
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Views: 16,159
Added: Jul 21, 2009
Runtime: 00:13:37
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In this video, Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward demonstrates the benefits of using the AMF technology to quickly transfer data between the client and server.
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Views: 1,409
Added: Jun 16, 2009
Runtime: 00:06:56
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