Working with Flash documents
Setting properties for a new or existing document
1 With the document open, select Modify > Document.
The Document Properties dialog box appears.
2 To embed metadata within your SWF files, enter a descriptive title in the Title box, and enter a description in the Description box.
Embedding metadata improves the ability of web-based search engines to return meaningful search results for Flash content. Descriptions can author and copyright information, and short descriptions about the content and its purpose. The search metadata is based on the RDF (Resource Description Framework) and XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) specifications and is stored in Flash in a W3C-compliant format.
The title and description you enter is a human readable title and a human readable description. These fields are not intended for keywords to provide greater search results. Instead, these fields are made available to search engines that index SWF files, and display the contents of the title and description field in their search results. Search metadata can be exported to any version of Flash. While it was introduced in Flash 8, Flash Player ignores tags it does not understand, thus Flash 8 exports it to all versions.
Note: Flash lets you make the settings you specify in the Document Properties dialog box the default settings for any Flash document that you create. The exception to this is the Title and Description, which you need to specify for each Flash document that you create.
3 For Frame Rate, enter the number of animation frames to appear every second.
For most computer-displayed animations, especially those playing from a website, 8 frames per second (fps) to 12 fps (the default) is sufficient.
4 For Dimensions, set the Stage size:
- To specify the Stage size in pixels, enter values in the Width and Height boxes. The minimum size is 1 x 1 pixels; the maximum i s 2880 x2880 pixels.
- To set the Stage size so that there is equal space around the content on all sides, click the Contents button to the right of Match. To minimize document size, align all elements to the upper-left corner of the Stage, and then click Contents.
- To set the Stage size to the maximum available print area, click Printer. This area is determined by the paper size minus the current margin selected in the Margins area of the Page Setup dialog box (Windows) or the Print Margins dialog box (Macintosh).
- To set the Stage size to the default size , 550 x400 pixels, click Default.
5 To set the background color of your document, click the triangle in the Background Color control and select a color from the palette.
6 To specify the unit of measure for rulers that you can display along the top and side of the application window, select an option from the pop-up menu in the upper right. (This setting also determines the units used in the Info panel.)
7 Do one of the following:
- To make the new settings the default properties for the current document only, click OK.
- To make the new settings the default properties for all new documents, click Make Default.
