Re: FLASH: Best way to transfer graphics from Ilustrator

[Erik [gearik] Mattheis]

This is what I do for making the basic layout of the movie and for any

objects which require better drawing tools than Flash has ... ie, text

along a path, or complex curves. Copying and pasting works fine for me:

quick and easy.


I do not ever use placed files, and do have to re-create gradients in Flash.


I remember I was frustrated while using Illustrator 7.0, but since I've

updated to 8.0, things have been working fine.


There is a Flash export plug-in for Illustrator, which I tinkered with for

about 10 minutes: http://www.flash.com/flashwriter/ - although it attempts

to export gradients, it got the alignment of the gradient wrong in my test.

And the resulting swf was significantly larger than one which I copied and

pasted.


>Hi,

>

>I am working on flash an animation project and I create all the graphics in

>Illustrator. The thing is that I have to move all the graphics one by

>one(copy and paste) to Flash and takes too much time. If any of you knows

>any better way to do it please let me know. Oh, other things is that the

>when the graphic has gradient I have to re fill it in Flash and it's also

>quite a pain.

>

>Any sugestions or comments will be highly appreciated. here is the url of

>the project I am working on if you are curious to see.


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