User Guide

310 Chapter 15: Publishing
This chapter contains the following sections:
Playing your Flash SWF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
About publishing secure Flash documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Publishing Flash documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
About publishing Flash Lite documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Using publish profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
About HTML publishing templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Customizing HTML publishing templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Editing Flash HTML settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Previewing the publishing format and settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Using Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
About configuring a web server for Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Playing your Flash SWF files
The Macromedia Flash SWF file format is for deploying Flash content.
You can play Flash content in the following ways:
• In Internet browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer that are equipped with
Flash Player 7
• With the Flash Xtra in Director and Authorware
• With the Flash ActiveX control in Microsoft Office and other ActiveX hosts
• As part of a QuickTime video
• As a stand-alone video called a projector
The Flash SWF format is an open standard that is supported by other applications. For more
information about Flash file formats, see www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer.
About publishing secure Flash documents
Flash Player 7 contains several features that help you ensure the security of your Flash documents.
Buffer overrun protection
Buffer overrun protection prevents the intentional misuse of external files in a Flash document to
overwrite a user’s memory or insert destructive code such as a virus. This prevents a Flash
document from reading or writing data outside the document’s designated memory space on a
user’s system. Buffer overrun protection is enabled automatically.