Re: FLASH: OT: Fireworks3 script for batch jpg/bmp to swfconversions?

[Helen Triolo]

maxx wrote:

> 

>

on 7/6/2000 4:20 PM, ComposiMoaol [dot] com said:

> 

> > Not in illustrator.... don't have it, but i read up on it and it didnt say

> > anything about being able to batch export to the swf format...  Batch a

> > Command in foreworks only works if you want to batch out to jpg or gif...

> > there's one other one, but i don't remember it... frankly, debabelizer is a

> > much better program than any of these for doing batch conversions, but

> > unfortunantly it does not support swf as an export format.

> 

> You have to tell Illustrator what to do, albeit rather annoying, but the

> Actions palette is nearly identical to that of Photoshop's which means that

> anything allocated in AI's export palette is available to you.

> 

> The export plug-in comes with AI 9.0, but if you can get ahold of AI 8, you

> can just download the export plugin. Doesn't work as well as Freehand's, but

> it'll get the job done for you.

> 

> See if you can get a demo. It's not my favorite program by a long shot, but

> it's the only thing out there that I know for sure will get your job done.

> 

> Actually, AI allows you to Save As... swf format not just Export... so

> building that Action might be even quicker than you think.


You know, I tried this in Illustrator.  First of all, it won't let you

open a bunch of files by shift-clicking them like you can do in

Photoshop. So I can't think of any way you could batch the process. 

You'd have to open the files one at a time, run the action, click OK (on

the Flash export dialog box) and then do the next one.  Additionally,

when you run the action, the export writes right over the old swf file

(the one you create the action on), instead of using the new file name

with a swf extension (because it's an export, not a save, I guess).  So

it's not an answer to the problem at all, imo.


my two off-topic cents,

Helen

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