TechNote Symbols with 9-slice scaling will have the 9-slice effects removed when exporting from Macromedia Flash 8 as GIF JPEG or other bitmap format....

TechNote Components that you know are not used on stage in the open Macromedia Flash file and that have a use count of zero are not selected when using the Library s Select Unused Items option....

TechNote When using Korean fonts in Macromedia Flash 8 some fonts display Chinese characters as lower quality than Korean characters....

TechNote On very rare occasions some users may experience a very long delay launching Macromedia Flash 8. The delay is long enough that it seems as if Flash has crashed. Given enough time however it will launch. One possible cause of this is a lost broken internet connection....

TechNote When using Macromedia Flash 8 to open Flash MX 2004 files in which missing fonts have already been substituted the missing font dialog box appears. When the file opens the fonts which had previously been replaced are returned to defaults assuming a replacement was not chosen ....

TechNote Using the keyboard shortcut of Shift F12 to publish from Macromedia Flash causes Macintosh OS X Dashboard to launch....

TechNote When using the Data Connection Wizard in Macromedia Flash 8 an error may occur While executing in MyFileName.fla a JavaScript error occurred....

TechNote Installing Macromedia Flash 8 Professional on a machine that also has Flash MX 2004 Professional will break Sorenson s 2-pass VBR FLV encoding. The result is that it is not possible to choose Sorensen 2-Pass encoding when creating FLVs in Sorenson Squeeze or other tools that use the Flash MX 2004 Professional video encoder....

TechNote Flash Video FLV files created with the Library s Export option in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 on Macintosh fail to play properly....

TechNote When uninstalling a Macromedia Flash 8 custom installation on Mac OS X the uninstall process does not remove all folders....

TechNote When a Macromedia Flash Player Movie SWF is loaded with loadMovie or loadMovieNum from a relative path and that SWF contains an instance of the Flash 8 FLVPlayback component the component can fail if it cannot find the skin SWF....

TechNote When exporting QuickTime with alpha channel from Macromedia Flash 8 you cannot see the alpha channel....

TechNote Using include in Macromedia Flash 8 to specify an absolute path for an ActionScript AS file generates an error File not found ....

TechNote When embedding Japanese font outlines in dynamic or input text field Macromedia Flash 8 renders the space between the letters incorrectly....

TechNote The Flash Video Encoder resizes 16 9 source material to 4 3 possibly causing distortion....