Flash Install Option (newbie) questions

Question

I have some questions about the installation options for
Flash CS4.
I always prefer to install only the bare essentials. Do I
actually need to install AIR, Adobe Drive, Device Central,
Extension Manager, Media Player or Media Encoder to learn and use
Flash?
I intend to use Flash to animate some of my artwork for
stand-alone presentation and/or broadband-only web. I do not expect
to be producing low resolution content for either the web or mobile
devices.
Flash is totally new for me. After watching a Lynda.com video
(Deke McClelland’s entertaining “Illustrator CS3
One-to-One Advanced Techniques”) I started to play around
with the simple animation effects available in Illustrator. I was
so hooked!
I returned my CS4 Design Standard upgrade to buy Design
Premium immediately.
The CS4 suite install on my XP system was not pretty. In the
end, the only way (that I could) avoid the frozen “checking
system profile” progress bar was to copy the entire first
install DVD to a hard drive.
One final question: even with new video drivers, neither of
my XP systems will handle OpenGL. Being unable to use the cool new
Photoshop zoom/pan tool is sad, but it won’t cause me to
switch to Vista. Will I be missing more important/essential
features in Flash CS4 without OpenGL?
Thanks,
Felicia Lovelett

Answer 1

bitstream veras are also nice, here is mine /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="autohinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<edit name="dpi" mode="assign"><double>85</double></edit>
</match>
<!-- Dongs -->
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
<dir>/home/xerxes2/.fonts/texcm-ttf</dir>
</fontconfig>
don't forget to change the dpi settings to yours
good luck