The Focal Easy Guide to Macromedia Flash 8: For New Users and Professionals

It is not possible in one little Easy Guide to cover all of the different media that you could export to from Flash. This chapter covers export from Flash to print, video, DVD and stand-alone projectors.
In the previous chapter we looked at using the publish settings to export SWF and HTML files to create output for the Web. It is possible to customize these settings to create different kinds of output for different kinds of media.
Publishing profiles are a way of saving information about your export options that you can go back to and reuse. When you export for many possible cross-media outputs, you can save a profile in the Publish Settings window for each output type.
To create a profile:
Select File > Publish Settings and then click on the add a profile button. Give the new profile a name.
Create New Profile
Then select the formats required and the necessary options for your new profile.
Profile Choices
You will now be able to select it from the different profiles you have created.
If you want to reuse this profile in another document or even share it with a colleague so that can use the same settings, click on the export profile button and select export. This creates an XML file, which can be used in other Flash document.
If you want to export individual still images, for example...