Re: FLASH: opening a mac-fla on WinNT?

[Randy Kato]

Hi Kristof,


Flash source files are cross-platform to an extent. You should be able to open

the Mac files on your PC and vice versa -- I do it all the time.


First, make sure the files are named properly for the PC with the ".fla"

extension, and make sure there are no PC-unfriendly special characters used

anywhere else in the file name.


Then try to open the file from within Flash. Start the application and use the

File>Open menu since double-clicking on the file itself requires the PC to

take the extra step of figuring out what type of file it is and therefore what

application to open it with (and this is usually where the problem lies).


However, you may have trouble with the fonts that were used in the .fla if

they were Mac fonts and you don't have the corresponding PC fonts...but that's

another thread.


Good luck!

Randy



Kristof Vandommele wrote:


> Hi,

>

> one of our clients send us last week two mac/flash4-created .fla files. We

> have to finish the animation for them because the author of the files is

> spending her holiday in Canada the next 4 weeks.

>

> I've tried to open the fla-files in Flash 4 (on WinNT) but I get a

> 'unexpected file-format'. Is there an option in Mac-Flash4 to save an .fla

> in a flash-pc compatible format? (their flash-operator is the only one in

> the office with any knowledge of flash, so I can't just tell them to 'go

> check your save-settings'...)

>

> kristof vandommele

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