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Product Information

Adobe Flash CS6 Professional software is the industry-leading authoring environment for creating engaging interactive experiences and delivering consistent content to audiences across platforms and devices. Create content with professional typography and pixel-perfect precision. Write advanced ActionScript code precisely with comprehensive syntax highlighting and customisable code snippets. Deliver high quality video content everywhere.

Documents & Downloads

New Features

What's new in Flash Professional CS6

• New support for HTML 5 - leverage a new extension (available separately) to create interactive HTML5 content by building on core animation and drawing capabilities in Flash Professional. Export as JavaScript to target the CreateJS open source framework.
• Sprite sheet generation - export symbols and animation sequences to quickly generate sprite sheets that help improve the gaming experience, workflow and performance.
• Wide platform and device support - reach Android and iOS devices by targeting the latest Adobe Flash Player and AIR runtimes.
• Adobe AIR mobile simulation - simulate common mobile application interactions like screen orientation, touch gestures, and accelerometer to help speed up testing.
• Stage 3D targeting - turbocharge rendering performance by using direct mode to leverage the open source Starling Framework for hardware-accelerated 2D content.

Features

Key features in Flash Professional CS6

Industry-leading animation tools

Create and edit motion tweens using the Timeline and Motion Editor, and use inverse kinematics to create natural motion for character animation.

Advanced drawing tools

Design artwork more precisely and efficiently with smart shapes and powerful design tools.

ActionScript editor

Streamline development with the built-in ActionScript editor that features custom class code hinting and code completion. Efficiently reference your own or external code libraries.

Efficient mobile development workflows

Manage FLA project files that target multiple devices. Share code and assets across documents and device targets to efficiently create, test, package, and deploy content for a wide range of screens and devices.

XML-based FLA source files

Collaborate on projects more easily with an XML-based implementation of the FLA file format. Uncompressed projects act like folders, allowing you to quickly manage and modify assets.

New support for HTML5

Leverage a new extension (available separately) to create interactive HTML5 content by building on core animation and drawing capabilities in Flash Professional. Export as JavaScript to target the CreateJS open source framework.

Sprite sheet generation

Export symbols and animation sequences to quickly generate sprite sheets that help improve the gaming experience, workflow, and performance.

Code Snippets panel

Help speed up project completion by using convenient prewritten code snippets for common actions, animation, multitouch gestures, and more. Also discover an easier way to learn ActionScript.

Advanced text engine

Get global bidirectional language support and advanced print-quality typography APIs via the Text Layout Framework. Maintain layout with greater fidelity when importing content from other Adobe applications.

Creative Suite integration

Perform roundtrip edits of bitmap images with Adobe Photoshop CS6 software, and integrate closely with Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 software.

System Req.

Windows

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7
• 2GB of RAM (3GB recommended)
• 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for multimedia features
• Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a Direct X 9–capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM.

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.6 or v10.7
• 2GB of RAM (3GB recommended)
• 4GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.6
• DVD-ROM drive.

Note: This product requires activation over the internet. Phone activation is not available.