Re: [Re: FLASH: EPS, FH8, SWF and FLASH]

[Clayton Pelton]

Hi,  been using Flash since Flash 2...just signed up to the list here...so I

apologize if this has already been said.


I don't know about Freehand 8, but I do have Freehand 7 here with the patches

installed from Macromedia and I can output to a .swf file directly by going to

the xtras>create menu...


This is how I create the majority of my Flash objects since the percision of

Freehand is somewhat better than the Flash drawing tools.


My other option is simply doing every thing in Adobe Illustrator and importing

the files as .ai, however I have some trouble bringing in the gradient fills.


Clayton Pelton

wainbergmaine [dot] rr [dot] com

 wrote:

I was wondering along similar lines, but since I've only got the trial 

versions of Flash 3 and Freehand 8 and have only been at it a week or so, I

figured I'd play around a bit more. But now that Ashley has brought it up..


I've had good luck (and lot's of fun) creating simple animations in just the

Flash application, but I've had little luck importing artwork from Freehand.


Since Macromedia is bundling these programs as the "Design in Motion Suite,"

I expected exceptional compatability and integration between the two. As far

as I can tell at this point, that's not the case.  The accompanying

tutorials and documentation hardly acknowledge Freehand/Flash compatability

except for Freehand's abilitly to save files in .swf format. At the very

least I see no advantage to using Freehand over other vector drawing

programs to create artwork for use in Flash animations. Am I missing

something?


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