Adform Creative Toolkit

Adform has compiled a tool for Flash which will help creative agencies to seamlessly build standard and advanced (expanding, floating, polite, tear back, video and video cube) banners according to Adform specifications.

This tool will help creative agencies deliver campaign banners fully compliant with adform specs and on time.

Currently “Adform Creative Toolkit” is available for Flash versions CS3, CS4 and CS5 (v9 and v10) under Windows OS and for CS3 / CS4/ CS5 under Mac OS.

With “Adform Creative Toolkit” you are able to create such types of banners:

  • Standard
  • Floating
  • Expanding
  • Tear Back (peel away)
  • Polite
  • Video
  • Video Cube
  • Synchronized
  • Dynamic content
  • Product ads
  • Widget banners (with possibility to share banner on social networks)

Installation

To install Adform Flash Extension “Adform Creative Toolkit” you need to follow these instructions:

  • You must have Adobe Extension Manager installed on your computer. It can be downloaded from official Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/exchange/em_download.
     
  • Download Adform Flash Extension “Adform Creative Toolkit”:

    For Windows: http://test.adform.com/adkit/Adform_WIN.mxp
    For MAC: http://test.adform.com/adkit/Adform_MAC.mxp
     
  • Launch Flash, in the top menu select Help --> Manage Extensions. Then Adobe Extension Manager is opened. Close Flash and in Extension Manager select to install downloaded mxp file (File --> Install Extension).
     
  • Close Extension Manager and relaunch Flash, start a new document and then in the top menu select Window --> Other Panels --> Adform. If the installation was successful you should see a panel (image below):

What's new in this version

Version: 2.0.134877:

  • IAB Slider format support
  • Vertical products scrolling support in Personalized Targeting banners
  • Various bug fixes