Offline Help on CS4

If you are new to Flash CS4, and you had habit of pressing F1 on info regarding selecting Class in action-script editor, you run in to this problem. every time you press ‘F1’ you see flash opens new browser window connecting to help.adobe.com. this is the URL opened when I pressed ‘F1’ after selecting MovieClip in code view. I thought flash removed offline help and cursed Adobe for the same. But finally I figured out I was wrong cursing Adobe. You should set your connection settings to offline mode to see offline help on your box.

1. Select Window menu
2. Select Extensions
3. Select Connections
4. click on right-top drop down to open offline options
5. Select “Keep me offline” checkbox
6. You are done.

Next time when you press ‘F1’ Flash CS4 opens offline help pages in new browser window.

PNG export problem with Flash CS4

If you are using Flash CS4 to draw transparent graphics and intend to use them in photoshop later, think twice there is a problem here. Some time Flash CS4 adds some black edges similar to matte edges in GIF, even if you select PNG 24-bit with Alpha Channel. This problem got introduced in Flash CS4, hope Adobe fix it soon. any way solution of this issue seems to be simple, but it’s a work around.

First break apart all text in your graphic, remember to break apart text completely you have to break apart twice. try exporting now, most of the cases this should solve your problems, if not then go ahead and break apart symbols in your graphic. exporting now will give to smooth edged PNG. But by breaking symbols to shapes will often you loose shape arrangements, things behind can come forward, or thing front can go backward. To avoid this situation before breaking apart select all elements in your graphics and “Distribute to Layers” Ctrl+Shift+D, should do that, by doing so every shape, element will get a layer for them selves, breaking apart now will not loose arrangements.