Re: FLASH: Urgent Help! Convert to Symbol

[John Dowdell]

At 12:10 PM 10/24/0, Gina K. Anderson wrote:

> You can see what it is doing here:

> http://www.sitediva.com/clients/piechart/index.html


If this came from Illustrator, then it doesn't have a way to preserve

symbols like the FreeHand->Flash export does, so I assume you're bringing

these in as separated shapes.


In that example it looks like the Illustrator art has multiple shapes

layered upon each other. One way to get "i convert to symbol and it

disappears" is if you're selecting a shape towards the back and convert it

to a symbol... this new object will then appear in front of others.


Could this be similar to what you're seeing there...? If you instead select

the multiple shapes that make the object and convert them all to a single

symbol, then do you see what you expect...?


(If there are actually multiple shapes layered upon each other, then it

might be good to see whether you can optimize these curves further in

Flash... a print application wouldn't necessarily care about extra shapes,

but this is a big concern when we're delivering files over the web.)


jd






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