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Subject: Re: LiveMotion SWF Import (was: FLASH: utilities to grab a website)
From: Michael Greenberg
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 00:45:00 +0100

Agreed on the object *layers*.... And people say the interface to Flash is
bad.... I have to admit I had no probs with import,but interface lacks alot
in so many areas.

My 2 cents,
Michael

> From: Jason Bouwmeester <jasonatintervisual [dot] com>
> Reply-To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:13:00 -0600
> To: "'flasheratchinwag [dot] com'" <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
> Subject: LiveMotion SWF Import (was: FLASH: utilities to grab a web site)
>
> jd,
>
> It's been awhile, but it was with the beta, anything I exported worked fine
> in the Flash player and when embedded in an HTML page on the web, but
> anything that I exported using LiveMotion did not by any means import very
> good into Flash. I think that the biggest problem was with the arrangement
> of the object *layers*, and I haven't had any problem with importing swf's
> exported from Flash, Swish, or Swift3D back into Flash.
>
> jb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com [jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com (mailto:jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com)]
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 4:07 PM
> To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
> Subject: RE: FLASH: utilities to grab a web site
>
>
> At 2:49 PM 5/19/0, Jason Bouwmeester wrote:
>> Flash imports the swf that LiveMotion exports like crap. From the initial
>> tests I tried I'd lose anywhere between 50-90% of the information of the
>> swf. Apparently the explanation for this is that they both export to swf
>> that is acceptable to be played with the existing Flash player, however due
>> to differences in programming export the exported swf's do not import into
>> the other program very well. Would be interesting though...
>
> I do know there were problems reported with the LiveMotion beta's SWF
> export (symbols, those "layer" thingies, mostly). I haven't downloaded the
> 1.0's trial version yet. Are you see problems in this SWF import? Could you
> functionally describe which structures have problems? Or are you just going
> by the beta's export too?
>
> (And I'm assuming that these are problems that you don't see when importing
> SWF from Flash, Swish, or other SWF-producing tools, but please advise if
> this surmise is inaccurate, thanks in advance.)
>
> (And btw, FreeHand imports multipage PDF and exports SWF... for the
> previous message, this would be a possible path, although the result may be
> to bulky to seriously consider.)
>
> tx,
> jd
>
>
>
>
>
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