Re: FLASH: html/wysiwyg editors and a new question!!

[David Mendels]

Hi,


I am not sure why you are having trouble bringing a FreeHand created SWF

into Flash.  You should be able to import it fine. Make sure you are using

FreeHand 8.0.1. To bring in layered documents, you should export from

FreeHand 8 as AI.  (FYI, EPS was invented not by Adobe but by Macromedia

(the former Altsys division that created FreeHand)).  We are working on

much closer ties between FreeHand and Flash, and are very focused on

improving the workflow you describe.  Please feel free to send any feature

requests in this area of functionality to

wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com

 and

wish-freehandmacromedia [dot] com

.


Regards,


David

Macromedia





At 08:58 AM 1/6/99 +0000, Jake wrote:

>Thanks to everyone for advise on text editors/wysiwyg programs.  I've dug

>out most of the free demo versions on the web pages so I'll give the whole

>lot a go.

>

>One question though: I've been using freehand 8 to create basic animations

>(before I got hold of flash). Some of the things I've designed are in

>layered freehand documents. Is there a way to import these graphics into

>flash keeping the layers, colours and text. Everytime I try and import a

>freehand .swf document it does an illigal action, or opens it as a movie

>player document which I can't seem to edit. If I try using a freehand .eps

>it asks me to use a Illustrator or photoshop .eps (which come from

>Adobe??!!!!). The main thing I'm trying to achive is to bring my desings

>from freehand into flash and then add the interactivity without having to

>re-draw the whole lot in flash.

>

>Thats it, thanks again

>

>Jake

>

>Oh p.s. Happy new year everyone!

>

>

Work:jakewestonestudios [dot] demon [dot] co [dot] uk

>

Home: jakedial [dot] pipex [dot] com

>

>

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