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Copy and paste motion: Motion tweens can be copied and pasted between frames. You can
select to paste all properties or only specific tween properties.
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Pen tool improvements: The functionality of the Pen tool has been improved to act more like
Illustrator’s Pen tool. The results are more accurate and conversion results in fewer points.
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PSD and AI import: Photoshop PSD and Illustrator AI files can be loaded directly into Flash
documents.
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Rectangle Primitive and Oval Primitive tools: The new Rectangle Primitive and Oval Primitive
tools make drawing these shapes easy with multiple parameters.
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ActionScript improvements: Flash includes ActionScript 3.0 with many new enhancements for
interacting with objects.
Although Adobe Flash CS3 Professional is an important application in the suite, our coverage
of Flash is fairly light. You can find the basics of using Flash in Chapter 35, but you need to
look to other more in-depth books to go beyond the basics.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is a Web-authoring and site-management program. The popular application was
acquired recently along with Flash as part of the Macromedia acquisition. Because of its popularity and
advanced feature set, it has supplanted Adobe’s GoLive as the Web-authoring tool to be included in Creative
Suite. It has been tightly integrated with the CS3 apps and works well with them for the most part. Over
time, we can assume that this integration will get even stronger.
For more information on using new features in Dreamweaver CS3, see Chapter 28.
These are some of the new feature highlights:
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Spry widgets and effects: Dreamweaver CS3 includes a library of pre-built JavaScript compo-
nents that are easily added to a Web page. These components include several widgets such as
XML-driven lists and tables, tabbed interfaces, and self-validating forms. The library also includes
a number of effects such as methods to enlarge, fade, and highlight objects.
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Photoshop integration: Of all the CS3 apps, Dreamweaver will probably work the closest with
Photoshop to create its images. Dreamweaver CS3 includes tight integration with Photoshop.
Photoshop images with layers can be pasted directly into Dreamweaver, and double-clicking the
image allows it to be edited again in Photoshop.
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Browser compatibility check: Using Dreamweaver’s browser compatibility check feature, shown
in Figure 1.6, generates a report that searches through your Web pages looking for potential prob-
lems with different Web browsers. This can save a ton of time for Web developers and eliminate
potential problems.
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