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ADOBE
®
FLASH
®
PLAYER
10
Deliver breakthrough, cross-platform web experiences
Adobe Flash Player 10 is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application (RIA)
runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video
playback, and pervasive reach. Flash Player 10 introduces new expressive features, visual
performance improvements, and extensibility to unleash the creative potential of
designers and developers so they can build richer and more immersive web experiences.
Get expressive with custom filters and effects
With Adobe Flash Player 10, developers now
have the flexibility to create and share filters,
blend modes, and fills for unprecedented
creative control. Using Adobe Pixel Bender™
technology, developers can write small pixel-
shading functions that can be parameterized
to animate or change the effect at runtime.
Custom filters and effects execute on the new,
high-performance Pixel Bender just-in-time
(JIT) compiler and can be applied to all display
objects, including vectors, bitmaps, and video,
while retaining full interactivity. Pixel Bender
can also be used to process other types of data,
such as sound or mathematical functions,
asynchronously in a separate thread from the
ActionScript® programming language.
Bring objects to life with 3D effects
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces and
unique effects with native 3D transformation
and animation capabilities that easily manipulate
interactive 2D display objects through 3D space.
Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use
APIs, along with new 3D tools in Adobe Flash
CS4 Professional software, make motion that
was previously accessible to expert users via
ActionScript or custom third-party libraries
available to everyone.
Manipulate text in new ways
The new, flexible text layout engine enables
innovation in creating text controls. In addition
to new layout and typographic capabilities,
device fonts can now be anti-aliased, rotated,
and styled. An extensible library of ActionScript
3.0 text components provides advanced,
easy-to-integrate layout functionality to flow
text and complex scripts across multiple
columns, around tables and inline images,
from right to left, from left to right, or vertically.
Create richer, more responsive
user experiences
By leveraging the power of the graphics
processing unit (GPU) for blitting and
compositing, Flash Player 10 reduces the load
on the central processing unit (CPU) and can
provide a performance boost to graphically
intense applications for more fluid, realistic,
responsive user experiences.
Design with enhanced drawing and
sound APIs
Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful
with restyleable properties; 3D APIs; and a new,
more efficient way of drawing sophisticated
shapes. New sound APIs enable application-
level audio mixing through ActionScript
and audio filtering with Adobe Pixel Bender,
enabling greater creative freedom that extends
beyond the visual experience.