{"id":12908,"date":"2008-10-15T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/10\/indesign-flash-goodness.html"},"modified":"2008-10-15T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T10:13:31","slug":"indesign_flash_goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/indesign_flash_goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"InDesign + Flash goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/dreams_undeferred.html\">noted<\/a> recently, one of my longest-held wishes has been for Flash (the authoring tool) to play better with other apps, enabling much richer exchange of documents.&#160; Now, thanks to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/03\/flash_moving_to.html\">XFL format<\/a> introduced in CS4, we&#8217;re seeing that vision become more real.&#160; In a new <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/#vi+f1552v1649\">segment on Adobe TV<\/a>, Flash evangelist Paul Burnett&#160;demonstrates how InDesign works with Flash.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, you can choose to export your pages as either SWF (ready to go right into a Web page with animation, no tweaking required) or XFL (ready to go into the Flash authoring environment with content intact*).&#160; The beauty is that InDesign can offer rich direct-to-Web publishing <em>without<\/em> trying to replicate every conceivable authoring option.  (Oh, and members of the InDesign team helped build the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/features\/#section-3\">rich new text support<\/a> in Flash Player 10, enabling higher fidelity hand-off between the apps.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/rufus\/2008\/10\/paul_skippy_burnett_dives_into.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Next up, look for demos of After Effects leveraging XFL export to bring projects to Flash.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><em>* One subtle detail is that Flash Player 10 now supports basic color management&#8211;more than a little important when you&#8217;re working across media and want to keep your images looking good.&#160; I plan to share more details about this support soon.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted recently, one of my longest-held wishes has been for Flash (the authoring tool) to play better with other apps, enabling much richer exchange of documents.&#160; Now, thanks to the new XFL format introduced in CS4, we&#8217;re seeing that vision become more real.&#160; In a new segment on Adobe TV, Flash evangelist Paul Burnett&#160;demonstrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}