Re: FLASH: Paste into Flash?

[steve shelden]

>Flashwriter (avail. from Macromedia) works pretty

>well.  After I import a swf exported from AI, I also

>get the group symbols, however I can ungroup it, or

>convert it to a symbol just fine. MacOS 8.6, AI8.

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Thanks Michael for responding to my posting. Yes I have tried the new 

Flashwriter for Illustrator. After importing the Flashwriter file, I 

can edit it and then put in the Library. I created a new layer and 

drag it out of the Library, I cannot hide it by clicking under the 

Eye symbol. Does this happen with you as well? Since I'm very new at 

using Flash, I'm not sure what the downside is for not being able to 

hide certain items.


I also pasted in the same image from Illustrator and it looks just 

like the one from Flashwriter, I wonder what's the difference. File 

size? I do see a color shift with the pasted in version, it's off 

from the original.


Is it your understanding, if you draw an image in Illustrator and 

import it into Flash using Flashwriter, that there would be no 

difference in file size? Since I'm a long time user of Illustrator, I 

would rather do all my drawings in Illustrator instead of Flash which 

has limited tools. I have heard a lot lately about how you must draw 

in Flash to be able to keep the file sizes down, so I'm not sure what 

good this Flashwriter is. Have you heard much about the advantages? 

They don't seem to have much info at Macromedia's site about it.


Thanks again,

-Steve


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