Publishing and viewing the application

To complete your document, you use the Publish command to create a web-compatible application as a SWF file.

If you use the Publish command with the default settings, Flash prepares your file for the web. Flash publishes the SWF file and creates an HTML file with the tags necessary to display the SWF file.

After you define the necessary publish settings, you can repeatedly export to all selected formats at once by simply choosing File > Publish. Because Flash stores your publish settings with the document, each application can have its own settings.

In this section, you'll learn how to complete the following tasks: