Reviewing Example .swf and .fla Files

Many of the examples we discussed in the text and in step-by-step tutorials are included in the relevant chapter folder on the CD-ROM. Opening the Flash movie (.swf) is the quickest way to see how the finished example is supposed to look. The fonts should display correctly, and as long as you haven't moved the file to a new location, any loaded assets should also work.

When you open a Flash document (.fla), you may get a warning about missing fonts. This warning simply means that you do not have the same fonts installed on your machine as the original author of the file. Select a default font and you will be able to review and edit the Flash document on your machine. However, without the proper fonts installed, the layout may not appear as it was originally designed.

Note 

The only font files included on the CD-ROM are Craig Kroeger's vector-based Miniml fonts, described in Chapter 8, "Working with Text." Other fonts are copyrighted material, and, as such, cannot be distributed on this CD-ROM.