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When you're ready to deliver your Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 content to an audience, you can publish it for playback. By default, the Publish command creates a Flash SWF file and an HTML document that inserts your Flash content in a browser window. The Publish command also creates and copies detection files for Flash 4 and later. If you change publish settings, Flash saves the changes with the document. You can create publish profiles to name and save various configurations for the Publish Settings dialog box, in order to quickly publish documents a variety of ways. After you create a publish profile, you can export it for use in other documents, or for use by others working on the same project. See Using publish profiles.
If you're publishing content that targets Flash Player 4 or later versions, you can implement Flash Player detection, which checks your user's version of Flash Player. If the user doesn't have the specified version, you can direct the user to an alternate web page. See Configuring publish settings for Flash Player detection
The Macromedia Flash Player 6 and later versions support Unicode text encoding. With Unicode support, users can view multilanguage text, regardless of the language used by the operating system running the player. See Creating Multilanguage Text.
You can also publish the FLA file in alternative file formats—GIF, JPEG, PNG, and QuickTime—with the HTML needed to display them in the browser window. Alternative formats allow a browser to display your SWF file animation and interactivity for users who don't have the targeted Flash Player installed. When you publish a FLA file in alternative file formats, the settings for each file format are stored with the FLA file.
You can export the FLA file in a variety of formats as well. Exporting FLA files is similar to publishing FLA files in alternative file formats, except that the settings for each file format are not stored with the FLA file. See Exporting.
As an alternative to using the Publish command, if you're proficient in HTML, you can create your own HTML document with any HTML editor and include the tags required to display a SWF file. See About configuring a web server for Flash.
Before you publish your SWF file, it's important to test how the SWF file works using the Test Movie and Test Scene commands.
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