Options for exporting your creations

While publishing your content is intrinsically bound to your chosen document type, exporting content is completely different. These differences are not well understood by many Animate users and the differences are often overlooked.

There are actually a number of places in Animate through which you can invoke various export options. The most direct way to export content is from the application menu.

Go to the application menu and choose File | Export – a submenu will appear, containing a variety of export options:

Figure 2.45 – Document export options

These Export options are available to us regardless of the document type. They are not bound in any way to the publish options or restrictions inherent to a certain platform:

• Export Image…: This brings up a dialog with many different options for exporting PNG, JPG, and GIF file types to export a single image file based on the current position...