Re: FW: FLASH: Importing Illustrator Files in Flash 4

[Corey Gutch]

Thanks Erin,

(Pardon me for being a tourist, I should join this list too!)


Illustrator 9.0 exports in Flash (.SWF) format. So if you're creating

artwork in Illustrator 9.0 and you want to take it into Flash, choose File

> Export  and then choose Flash (SWF) as your format. Additionally,

Illustrator gives you options for the .SWF file, such as automatically

creating symbols, adjusting curve quality, and animating layers. There is a

good tutorial on our website for this at:

http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/illflshlyrs.html.


Illustrator's online help explains each of the options for exporting as

SWF. Choose Help > Illustrator Help, then click Search in the browser, and

type "Flash" as your search criteria.


Tom, to delete swatches, from the Swatches palette pop-up menu, choose

Select All Unused, then click the Trash icon at the bottom of the palette.

Alternately you can Shift+click to select multiple swatches then click the

Trash icon.


I hope this info helps.


Best regards,

Corey Gutch

Adobe Illustrator Technical Lead


>Hi Corey!

>I read the following thread today and

>remembered you from my flash class this summer and that you were involved

>with Illustrator. This email is from a flash list that  Marc Hoffman

>recommended we join. The last message is how the topic has been left.

>Anyway, if you had any input for this conversation you could mail it to

>

flasherchinwag [dot] com. I am sure that everyone would be interested in what

you

>had to say!

>Hope all is well.

>........................................................................

>erin shaw EUR nbbj EUR designer

>........................................................................

>

>

>-----Original Message-----

>

From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com [jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (mailto:jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com)]

>Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:24 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: RE: FLASH: Importing Illustrator Files in Flash 4

>

>

>At 1:42 PM 9/15/0, Hiroshi Nakahara wrote:

>> does the flash export plugin not work for Illustrator 9?

>> you can find that at the macromedia site

>

>I don't know, myself... we tested it for then-current ILL8. I don't

>personally have ILL9 to test, but would expect them to test against

>existing extensions for backwards-compatibility.

>

>But whenever bringing AI files in to Macromedia Flash, please be sure to

>check the curves a bit, see if you can simplify them and reduce their

>filesize... Macromedia FreeHand has some Flash-like curve optimization

>built in, but print tools often have more nodes than we really want for

>live web delivery.

>

>jd

>

>

>-----Original Message-----

>

From: Gina K. Anderson [ginasitediva [dot] com (mailto:ginasitediva [dot] com)]

>Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:35 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: RE: FLASH: Importing Illustrator Files in Flash 4

>

>

>Hi Tom,

>

>|I usually save down to illustrator 5.0 format as a rule... You can try

>that.

>

>Tried that, if I go below version 7, it tells me it can't save the file in

>that

>format because it has more than 255 swatches. I'm not an expert in

>Illustrator,

>know how to get rid of the swatch number? I think the drawing so far has

>only

>about 10 web safe colors.

>

>Thanks,

>Gina

>

>|-----Original Message-----

>

|From: Gina K. Anderson [ginasitediva [dot] com (mailto:ginasitediva [dot] com)]

>|Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:22 PM

>|To: Flasher Newsgroup

>|Subject: FLASH: Importing Illustrator Files in Flash 4

>|

>|

>|Hi all,

>|

>|I'm working on a complicated drawing in Illustrator 9 Win. This has

>probably

>|been discussed here, but there seems to be no search feature on the

>|archives. I

>|can't seem to import the .ai files into Flash. Can anyone give me some

>|pointers?

>|

>|Thanks,

>|Gina

>

>

>

>John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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