How to export files from Animate

The Animate Export commands do not store export settings separately with each file, as does the Publish command. (To create all the files you need to put Animate content on the web, use the Publish command.)

Export Movie exports a Animate document to a still-image format, creates a numbered image file for every frame in the document, and exports the sound in a document to a WAV file (Windows only).

About export file formats

Remember the following:

• If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.

• When you save a Animate image as a bitmap GIF, JPEG, PICT (Macintosh), or BMP (Windows) file, the image loses its vector information and is saved with pixel information only. You can edit images exported as bitmaps in image editors such as Adobe® Photoshop®, but you can no longer edit them in vector‑based drawing programs.

• When you export a Animate file in the SWF format, text is encoded as Unicode, providing support for international character sets, including double-byte fonts. Flash Player 6 and later versions support Unicode encoding.

Animate content is exported as sequences and images are exported as individual files. PNG is the only cross-platform bitmap format that supports transparency (as an alpha channel). Some non-bitmap export formats do not support alpha (transparency) effects or mask layers.

The following table lists the formats that you can export Animate content and images to:

Update SWF files for Dreamweaver

To add the content to your page, export SWF files directly to an Adobe® Dreamweaver® site. Dreamweaver generates all the needed HTML code. You can start Animate from Dreamweaver to update the content. In Dreamweaver, you can update the Animate document (FLA file) and re-export the updated content automatically.

For more information on working with Dreamweaver, see Using Dreamweaver in Dreamweaver Help.