Flash

Draft

Definition

Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. ..

See also: SVG and Microsoft Silverlight

Installation and Configuration of Adobe CS3

CS3 on WinXP

By Daniel K. Schneider. Hardware was a Dell XPS II with updated XP. It already had an older Dreamweaver 8, 2 Acrobats, Framemaker 7.0 and Framemaker 7.2. I disabled AcAfee (Virusscan).

It was quite a nightmare. Adobe is often not compatible with Adobe (went through this also with various versions of Distillor/Creator in combination with Framemaker). With my install, Acrobat 8 Professional would not install giving a totally useless error message. Didn't find any useful help on the Adobe site, except the sort of ludicrous advice like reinstalling windows.

Here is what I tried on Windows XP (step by step, each time waiting between 1 and 2 hours ....)

• Uninstalled all Adobe software (except Framemake 7.2). In particular, all PDF Distillor/Creator versions. Launched installer again, just selected the Acrobat component.
• Removed stuff from the Registry, ...
• Uninstalled all "PDF" containing entries with the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility (download), ....
• Removed again CS3 plus all other Adobe software, ....
• Went again through the registry and windows cleanup.

Links

General

• Waldron, Rick (2006-08-27). [http://www.flashmagazine.com/413.htm

The Flash History]. Flashmagazine

• Adobe Flash (Wikipedia)
• Flash Kit Index of Tutorials

(lots of oudated ones too).

Adobe

• Adobe Flash Player
• Adobe Flash Developer Center

(includes some tutorials)

Tutorials

(to sort out, no endorsements here)

• Flashkit.com (A Flash Developer Resource

Site)

• [http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/ Getting

Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3]

• [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art51064.asp Adobe Flash CS3

Professional What's New Review] by Diane Cipollo.

• Find

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Adobe+Flash+CS3%22&search= "Adobe Alsh CS3"] on YouTube.

Books

(no idea if they are any good)

• Adobe Creative Team (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom

in a Book. ISBN 0321499824

• Anderson, Andy (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional On Demand. ISBN

0789736926 592 pages.

• Finkelstein Ellen and Gurdy Leete (2007). Flash CS3 For Dummies.

ISBN 0470121009, 408 pages.

• Gerantabee, Fred (August ? 2007). Dynamic Learning: Flash CS3

Professional. ISBN 10 0-596-51058-6

• Grover, Chris (2007). Flash CS3: The Missing Manual. ISBN

0596510446 - [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510442/ O'Reilly page], 527 pages. (From reviews on the web, this looks like the most suitable one for starters)

• Morris David (2007). Creating a Web Site with Flash CS3

Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide. ISBN 0321503007

• Moock, Colin, Essential ActionScript 3.0. ISBN 0-596-52694-6. (From

reviews on the web, this seems to be best action script 3.0 book)