Publishing and Exporting > Publishing Flash movies > Publishing Generator templates

Generator lets you add dynamic content, such as text, graphics, and sound, to a Flash movie. You can specify publishing options in the Generator panel of the Publish Settings dialog box.

To publish a Generator template with the Flash file:

1	Choose File > Publish Settings.
2	Select the Generator Template type. Enter a unique name for Filename, or select Use Default Name to create a file with the Flash file name plus the .swf extension.
3	Click the Generator panel to display its settings.
4	For Dimensions, enter a Width and Height in pixels to specify the movie's width and height when the file is converted to a file or stream; or select Match Movie to make the published movie the same size as the original Flash movie and maintain its aspect ratio.
5	Choose a Background color for the scenes of your movie, to override the background color set with the Modify > Movies command, as follows:
	Set a Web-safe color name, for example, black. A Web-safe palette uses the 216 colors that are common to the Windows and Macintosh system palettes.
	Set a Web hexadecimal value (for example, #3434aa).
	Set a regular hexadecimal value (for example, 0x232356).
6	Specify a Frame Rate to set how quickly the frames of the current movie appear when an animation is played back, overriding the frame rate set with the Modify > Movies command.
	The rate is specified in frames per second (fps). If you specify a frame rate of 10 fps, each frame of the animation appears on the screen for 1/10 of a second; a 100-frame animation plays for 10 seconds.
7	Choose a Load Order to set the order in which Flash loads a movie's layers for displaying the first frame of your movie: Bottom Up or Top Down.
	This option controls which parts of the movie Flash draws first over a slow network or modem connection.
8	Choose Data Encoding to set the encoding system to use when reading all data sources referenced in the template file.
	Default uses the encoding method of the system from which the template is served. You should use the same character encoding system for all the data sources. For more information, see the Using Generator 2 guide included with the Generator product.
9	Select Create External Font Files to have Generator create font files.
	The Generator Enterprise Edition caches these font files to speed performance when many fonts are used in a movie.
10	Select External Media to specify the name of the Generator template containing the symbols and include its library in the selected file.
	This option lets you access symbols as if they resided in the selected file. If the same symbol is defined in both the external media file and the current file, the external media file's symbol is used.
11	Select Parameters to define variables; then enter the variable name and its value.
	This option lets you test templates locally as you develop them or test how variables will work when processed.
12	To save the settings with the current file, click OK.