What is Flash Professional?

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS6 software is a powerful authoring environment for creating animation and multimedia content. Design immersive interactive experiences that present consistently across desktops and multiple devices, including tablets, smartphones, and televisions.

What's new in CS6?

New support for HTML5
Leverage a new extension (available separately) to create interactive HTML5 content by building on core animation and drawing capabilities in Flash Professional. Export as JavaScript to target the CreateJS open source framework.
Sprite sheet generation
Export symbols and animation sequences to quickly generate sprite sheets that help improve the gaming experience, workflow, and performance.
Wide platform and device support
Reach Android™ and iOS devices by targeting the latest Adobe Flash Player and AIR runtimes.
Prepackaged Adobe AIR application creation
Create and deliver applications with a prepackaged Adobe AIR captive runtime. Streamline application testing and enable end users to run your content without additional downloads.
Adobe AIR mobile simulation
Simulate common mobile application interactions like screen orientation, touch gestures, and accelerometer to help speed up testing.
Stage 3D targeting
Turbocharge rendering performance by using direct mode to leverage the open source Starling Framework for hardware-accelerated 2D content.

• Design with expression
• Clearly communicate your creative vision with Adobe® Flash® Professional CS6 software using a powerful toolset that offers typographic precision, layout fidelity, and expressive motion-editing capabilities.
• Write code quickly and perform testing easily
• Access platform and device-specific capabilities using prebuilt native extensions, and simulate common mobile application interactions.
• Create once, deploy virtually anywhere
• Create apps with a prepackaged Adobe AIR captive runtime to deliver consistently across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.

• Multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.6 or v10.7
• 2GB of RAM (3GB recommended)
• 4GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.6
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for multimedia features
• This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* Phone activation is not available.