Re: FLASH: Freehand import, general question

[Willem van den Goorbergh]

>I have Freehand, but I have avoided using it to create

>graphics for

>import into Flash because the last time I tried, it

>imported about 35

>symbols for one drawing... that the drawing came apart as

>little

>unrelated parts.

>

>

>How do you effectively export from Freehand and import the

>swf into Flash

>and keep the items whole?

>

>Jeff

>


Jeff,

The best way to get FH drawings in flash is exporting as

.swf from Freehand (mak sure you have the FH 8.01b version

in which the .sfw export module was improved).

Flash doesn't support all Freehand attributes (e.g. dashed

lines, some text attributes).

As far as I understand, the creation of symbols to replace

and refer FreeHand elements by Flash is meant as a feature

to keep file sizes down. I just place them in a folder in

the document library in Flash to get them out of the way,

and don't touch them.

Hope this helps,

Willem


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