Description from the Publisher:

Flash MX is the industry standard tool for creating effective rich content across desktops and devices. Designers and developers use Flash MX to accelerate projects while maintaining a high degree of creative control!

Jumpstart projects with Templates and Components and take advantage of the vast Macromedia online Resource Library. Speed workflow by directly importing media including digital video, PDF and EPS files. Add interactivity with powerful scripting. Enhance content with custom effects from third-party extensions. Deliver consistently to over 97% of Internet users worldwide across all major platforms and on popular devices with Macromedia Flash Player.

Flash MX Professional is the top-of-the-line Flash development environment for advanced content and applications!

New Features:

• Timeline Effects and Behaviours - Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with new Timeline Effects and Behaviours. Create common timeline animations with one-step Timeline Effects, reducing the need for excessive keyframing.
• Extensibility Architecture and Third-Party Extensions - Third-party developers can extend Flash MX with significant new capabilities thanks to the new JavaScript API extensibility architecture. Create charts and graphs, animate text effects, deploy high-resolution interactive bitmaps, add raster effects and design 3D graphics, all without leaving Flash MX.
• Improved Runtime Performance - Take advantage of an enhanced compiler and the new Macromedia Flash Player 7, which together boost runtime performance by 2-10x for common applications. Improvements include faster graphics display, video playback, component initialisation and XML parsing, as well as better memory usage.
• PDF and EPS File Support - Integrate rich-media content faster with direct support for PDF and EPS (Adobe Illustrator 10) files. Import and map files into the Flash MX interface with a variety of settings, such as segmenting layers and pages into the library and timeline.
• Alias Text - Produce crisp, highly legible text that's optimised for display at small sizes and on low-resolution displays such as mobile phones and devices.
• Productivity Features - Improve your workflow with new features such as a built-in Spell-Checker, Search and Replace, a Deployment Kit and reusable Publish settings. Create macros with the new History panel and with custom commands. Ensure consistent text formatting between Flash MX and HTML content with Cascading Style Sheets.
• Globalisation Tools - Leverage full Unicode support to use, render and save any font and encoding supported by your operating system, including double-byte character sets.