Number 5 is alive!
Just to make things clear… If you thought the Packager for iPhone was the single new feature in CS5, then boy were you wrong! CS5 has over 250 improvements and new features! These are a couple of my favorite new features in Flash Professional CS5.
New text engine
The new text engine in Flash Professional CS5 now allows you to fully leverage the power of the Text Layout Framework available in Flash Player. With the new Text panel you’ll create multi column text and link multi text boxes in no time.
Snippets panel
The new Code Snippets panel is the easiest way to add ActionScript to your project. Developers can easily add their own code snippets and designers can just add functionality to their project with just a few clicks.
ActionScript editor
The Actions panel finally got some love as well. It will now do code hinting and code completion even for custom classes. Yay! But if you want a more robust coding environment, you can now also opt to edit your code in Flash Builder 4.
XML based source files
If you use a source control system, you’ll be happy to know that Flash Professional CS5 can now save your projects in an uncompressed format.
More more more…
New additions to the deco tool and IK. Video improvements like a new cuepoint editor and on-stage scrubbing, SWF size history, FXG, lots of updates in Device Central, better workflows with other CS5 tools, … And then we’re only talking about Flash! There are 17 tools in Creative Suite that have all been updated and that have all gotten new features!
I can’t wait to see what you will create with it!
Don’t miss the CS5 launch event in about 8 hours and 40 minutes from now!
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Will Air 2.0 be out of beta as well? And will I be able to publish for Air 2 with Flash CS5?
“lost of updates” should read “lots of updates”?
Thanks, Rob! Fixed it ;-)
@Youri: We haven’t announced the release date of AIR2 yet. That said… You will be able to build AIR2 apps with Flash CS5 (and you can already build AIR2 apps today by downloading the prerelease SDK from Labs)
@Serge: I already did a lot of testing with the new AIR2 features. I’m just waiting for the release to implement them in my app. I promised the client that it should be up and running by this summer, so I hope Adobe is with me on this one ;)
Hello Mr. jespers
can you say some think on the future of flash platform. As i see people are speculating on the internet that flash cs5 published to html canvas, because adobe is killing the flash plugin overtime. I believe technically thats wrong. action-script logic cannot be published to html5 code.
@Rajdeep: Trust me… Flash Player is here to stay (with a new release just around the corner)! We are 100% committed to the Flash Platform. The Flash to HTML5 export video that has been floating around the internet today was recorded at MAX 2009 during the sneak peek session. The sneak peek session is about showing possible future technologies that our engineers are playing with.
Thanks for the update :)
I might be mistaken, but technically it is not here yet, right? All the news sites state availability of the suite within next 30 days. So basically it is still a month (or a bit less) till it would be possible to get our hands on the trial version of Flash CS5? Right? Wrong?
In any case, congrats on release. Will be very happy to finally see the improvements to scripting panel. And XML format is really nice to have as well, so I would finally be able to stop submitting .fla blobs into my repository :)