DEVICE CENTRAL
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Preview mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Dreamweaver
To preview pages created in Dreamweaver on various mobile devices, use Device Central with its built-in Opera
Small-Screen Rendering feature. Different devices have different browsers installed, but the preview can give a good
impression of how content will look and behave on a selected device.
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Start Dreamweaver.
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Open a file.
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Do one of the following:
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Select File > Preview in Browser > Device Central.
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On the document window toolbar, click and hold the Preview/Debug In browser button
and select Preview In
Device Central.
The file is displayed in the Device Central Emulator tab. To continue testing, double-click the name of a different
device in the Device Sets or Available Devices lists.
Access Adobe Device Central from Adobe Bridge
To access Device Central from Adobe Bridge, select an individual file. The supported formats are: SWF, JPG, JPEG,
PNG, GIF, WBM, MOV, 3GP, M4V, MP4, MPG, MPEG, AVI, HTM, HTML, XHTML, CHTML, URL, and
WEBLOC.
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Start Adobe Bridge.
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Do one of the following:
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Select a file and click File > Test in Device Central.
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Right-click a file and select Test in Device Central.
The file is displayed in the Device Central Emulator tab. To continue testing, double-click the name of a different
device in the Device Sets or Available Devices lists.
Note:
To browse device profiles or to create mobile documents, select Tools > Device Central. Device Central opens with
the Devices Profiles tab shown.
For a tutorial about using Adobe Bridge and Device Central, see
http://www.adobe.com/go/vid0208
.
Tips for creating content for mobile devices
Creating Flash content for use on mobile devices
To create Flash content for mobile devices, follow some basic principles. For example, Flash developers often avoid
extremely complex artwork and excessive tweening or transparency.
Flash Lite developers face additional challenges because performance on mobile devices varies greatly. If content
must be published to many different devices, developers sometimes have to author for the lowest common denom-
inator.
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