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Device Central CS3 Read Me
Minimum system requirements
Device Central can be installed only as a component of an Adobe® CS3 product or with the Adobe® Creative Suite 3. For this reason, see the system requirements for whichever Adobe product you're installing Device Central with.
Device Central can be installed only as a component of an Adobe® CS3 product or Adobe® Creative Suite 3.
- Before you install, close all applications currently running on your system–including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows.
- Do one of the following:
- Insert the CD or DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. (If the installer does not launch automatically, double-click Setup.exe (Windows) or Setup (Mac OS) at the root level of your disk to start the installation process.)
- If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder and double-click Setup.exe (Windows) or Setup (Mac OS), and then follow the on-screen instructions.
- Before you uninstall, close all applications currently running on your system–including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows.
- Do one of the following:
- In Windows, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the product that you want to uninstall, click Change/Remove, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
- In Mac OS, double-click the product installer in Applications\Utilities\Adobe Installers. Authenticate as an administrator, then select Uninstall Components and follow the on-screen instructions.
Video playback in Device Central requires Apple QuickTime Player version 7 or higher to be installed on your system. If you do not install QuickTime, you will not be able to play back video and certain sound formats included in your Flash Lite documents. To install QuickTime on your system, go to the Apple download site at
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download and follow the installation instructions.
In order to accurately emulate fonts defined in your Flash document, make sure that the desired font is installed on your system. If your Flash movie uses one of Flash's generic device font "types" (_sans, _serif, _typewriter), Flash Lite will replace those by a respective font available on the system. Since most native fonts on devices are manufacturer-owned, they might not be available on your computer. The Device Central Preferences provide a respective mapping of common Windows and Mac OS system fonts for the three generic device font types. If you have the actual device font of a manufacturer installed or simply want to use a different font as the default, go to the Device Central Preferences and remap the generic font "types" as desired. Font mapping is supported for different languages. You can only map fonts that are installed on your system and that comply with the selected language's encoding.
Player
- Flash Lite 1.1 and Flash Lite 2.x players always return "false" for the _capStreamSound capability, independent of the device profile information.
- Flash Lite 2.x players always return "true" for the System.capabilities.hasStreamingAudio property, independent of the device profile information.
- Flash Lite 2.x players always return "true" for the hasQWERTYKeyboard system capability, independent of the device profile information.
Input
- For some devices, the mouseType capability might not be emulated correctly if <mouseType value="Partial"/>. This means that the supported mouse events in the emulator may differ from those supported on an actual device. Always verify that the mouse events work as expected on the actual device.
- The hasStylus system capability returns "false" if <mouseType value="Stylus"/>.
- Device Central does not check whether the tested file complies with the strict file naming conventions of BREW devices. If you want to target BREW devices, make sure your file complies with the BREW rules.
Videos & images included in a SWF file
Videos and images included in a SWF file always play back in the emulator, independent of whether this is supported on the actual device. To check support for video and images within a SWF, select the desired target device/s, click the Device Profiles tab, and go to the Flash section. If video and images in a SWF are supported, the respective formats will be listed.
SWF content included in Web pages
On Windows, the emulator does not play back Flash content embedded in Web pages. On Mac OS, Device Central uses the Flash desktop plug-in, which might lead to unexpected results with Flash Lite content.
We recommend that you test embedded Flash Lite content separately.
Sound
- BREW-specific sound formats such as QCELP, CMX, and BCI are not played back.
- The soundChannels capability is always returned as "Stereo", independent of whether the device profiles indicate support for mono sounds only.
- The Flash Lite 1.1 player always returns "Yes" for the multipleDeviceSounds capability, even if the device profile indicates that mixing of multiple sounds is not supported.
- SWF movies with multiple native PCM raw sounds embedded to play at the same time (mixing), might cause some playback quality issues on Flash Lite 2.x players.
- Quality issues might occur when playing back MIDI files. To improve quality, try to change the default synthesizer in the QuickTime System Settings to General MIDI.
- On Mac OS, it might occur that small portions of sound are skipped at the beginning.
- On Mac OS, you might experience some quality issues with Flash Lite 2.x players when playing back native MP3, MFI, and MIDI formats.
- On Mac Power PCs, SMAF-5 files might skip and cut out during playback.
- Sound playback might stutter when quickly dragging around the application window on the screen.
Performance
Each device profile includes Performance Index information, which is the result of a performance test that Adobe ran on the actual device. This performance index allows to categorize devices. The higher the index, the better the performance. To simulate device performance on your computer, it is necessary to run a calibration process first. During this calibration process, Device Central runs the same SWF file that was used during the performance test on the actual device. The result of the calibration on your computer is then set into relation to the device performance index.
Note: that the performance simulation is an approximation to the real device performance.
The SWF file used for calibration includes text, bitmap, and vector tweens. Therefore, the performance simulation will be most accurate for this sort of content. Functionality, such as XML parsing, ActionScript, and networking, have not been considered in this performance test.
To achieve most accurate simulation results, perform device calibration frequently, because other processes running on your computer affect performance. Final testing must always be done on the actual device.
FSCommand2 commands
SetFullScreen: Every SWF file is emulated as if set to Fullscreen.
SetInputTextType: The emulator ignores text input restrictions to Latin/Non Latin characters.
The following FSCommand2 commands are emulated as if supported, even if the device profile includes different information.
All Flash Lite players:
- Escape, Unescape
- GetFreePlayerMemory, GetTotalPlayerMemory
- GetTimezoneOffset
Flash Lite 2.x players:
- GetDateDay, GetDateMonth, GetDateWeekday, GetDateYear
- GetTimeHour, GetTimeMinute, GetTimeSecond
Customer Service
Adobe Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact Adobe Customer Service, please visit Adobe.com’s main page for your region or country and click on ‘Contact’.
Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at
http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. For outside of North America
http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums, and more.
Mobile device images are provided with this software for simulation purposes only and may not implement Adobe technology when made commercially available by the applicable device manufacturer.
Updated Information/Additional Third Party Code Information available at
www.adobe.com/go/thirdparty.