Re: FLASH: Freehand import, general question

[Sarah Lamont]

I know this response is a little late since I'm just reading the weekend's

list on Monday morning, but I thought my insight might help out.

I find it extremely easier to create my art in Freehand and then bring

it into Flash since I learned the bezier pen tool before getting to know

the Flash way of drawing. Anyways, the way I solve the problem is simply

by copying from Freehand and pasting into Flash. The only thing that you

have to keep in mind when doing this is that Flash will only paste the

fills and not the outlines of the objects, and also that all fills will

be black. (This sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is. If you

try it you will understand what I mean) Also, another good thing about

doing it this way is that the pasted object is then completely alterable

when in Flash, you just need to break it apart.

Okay, I hope this helps somebody!
:),
Sarah

Willem van den Goorbergh wrote:

>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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