Overview
Create and deliver rich interactive content
Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5.5 software is the industry-leading authoring environment for producing expressive interactive content. Create immersive experiences that present consistently to audiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.
Highlights
Expanded platform and device support
Reach audiences on the latest Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes and on Android™ and iOS devices.
Efficient workflows for mobile development
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.
Content scaling when resizing stage
Save time when sharing symbols and motion paths across documents that are optimized for different screen sizes.
Enhanced layer control
Preserve important document structure when copying layers across multiple files and projects.
Flash Web Design - Create interactive experiences
Express your creative vision and attention to detail and design pixel-perfect interactive content with exceptional typography, flexible layouts, and incredibly smooth animation.
Web Application Development
Develop cross-platform web applications and content with an integrated development environment that offers intelligent ActionScript® coding tools.
Features for
Embed video
Wow your audience and produce engaging rich video content and interactivity that contains expressive, lifelike motion and animation.In Depth
What's new in Flash Professional CS5
Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 software combines expressive design features like a new multilingual text engine and more realistic inverse kinematics effects with timesaving development features like extensible code snippets and enhanced ActionScript authoring options.
Text engine
Take complete control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework.
Code Snippets panel
Reduce the ActionScript® 3.0 learning curve and enable greater creativity by injecting prebuilt code into projects.
Enhanced ActionScript editor
Speed the development process with an improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion.
Creative Suite integration
Enhance productivity when using Adobe Creative Suite® components such as Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, and Flash Builder.
Flash Builder integration
Use Flash Builder as your primary ActionScript editor for Flash Professional projects.
Video improvements enhanced
Streamline video processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector.
Design immersive interactive experiences
Import your design from Photoshop CS5 Extended or Illustrator CS5 and then add interactivity and motion with Flash Professional to bring your work to life.
XML-based FLA source files
Manage and modify projects using source control systems and collaborate on files more easily.
Wide content distribution
Publish content virtually anywhere, using Adobe AIR® for desktop applications and mobile platforms including the iPhone®*, or Adobe Flash Player for browser-based experiences.
*Subject to Apple's current requirements and approval.
Spring for Bones
Create more realistic inverse kinematic effects with new motion attributes added to the Bones tool.
New Deco drawing tools-particles, 3D, tree, fire, lightning
Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool.
System Requirements
indows®
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
- Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
- 1GB of RAM
- 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
Mac OS
- Multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
- 1GB of RAM
- 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-based storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
Adobe Etail Mac: SKU# 65080959
Adobe Etail Win: SKU# 65081008
Note: The download version can take up to 24 hours to deliver.