Adobe Flash Professional is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Systems.
Flash Professional is primarily used to design vector graphics and animation, and publish the same for websites, web applications, rich internet applications, andvideo games. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio and video embedding, and ActionScript scripting. Content may be published forFlash Player, Adobe AIR and more recently, HTML5, WebGL and spritesheets.
It was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, and then re-christened Macromedia Flash upon its acquisition by Macromedia. It was created to serve as the main authoring environment for the Adobe Flash platform, a vector-based platform for the creation of animated and interactive content.
Adobe Flash Professional is the successor of a software product known as FutureSplash Animator, a vector graphics and vector animations program released in May 1996. FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. With the implosion of the pen-oriented operated systems, it was ported to Microsoft Windows as well as Apple Inc.'sMac OS. In 1995, the company decided to add animation capabilities to their product and to create a vector-based animation platform for World Wide Web; hence FutureSplash Animator was created. (At that time, the only way to deploy such animations on the web was through the use of Java platform.) The FutureSplash animation technology was used on several notable websites such as MSN, The Simpsons website and Disney Daily Blast of The Walt Disney Company.[1][2]
In December 1996, Macromedia bought FutureWave and so re-branded and released FutureSplash Animator as Macromedia Flash v1.0. Adobe Systemsacquired Macromedia in 2005.
On December 1, 2015, Adobe announced that the program would be re-named Adobe Animate on its next major update. The move comes as part of an effort to disassociate the program from Adobe Flash Player, acknowledging its increased use for authoring HTML5 and video content, and an effort to begin discouraging the use of Flash Player in favor of web standards-based solutions.[3]
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