RE: FLASH: EPS to Flash......

[John Dowdell]

"EPS" is *Encapsulated* PostScript, not "Exchange PostScript", and was

created by the makers of FreeHand to produce protected little packages of

code. This meaning was subsequently corrupted, and nowadays many try to use

it as an exchange format.



At 6:39 AM 2/9/0, Daniel Tucker wrote:

> Using PhotoShop I create a clipping path and then save it as

> a PhotoShop EPS, put it in Illustrator 8 and save it as a

> version 7 illustrator file. I then import the Illustrator file

> into flash 4 and receive the following error....


I suspect you'll be better off by examining the assumptions here:


"Is Photoshop art good to stuff in SWFs?" It can often be useful, but it's

very frequently misused too... Flash works best with resolution-independent

vectors, but fixed-resolution images are usually large and can also incur

realtime-resizing costs.


"How can I drop out backgrounds of a pixel-based object?" See

http://ww.macromedia.com/go/12804


"Does .AI6 import include bitmaps?" No, it's for bringing existing curves

to the new environment.




At 8:37 AM 2/9/0,

GDaviesixl [dot] com

 wrote, of FlashWriter:

> Can you provide a specific URL?  I checked adobe and macromedias

> site and no luck,


Adobe's tools don't support SWF yet, but they will soon. In the meantime

you can use the free FlashWriter Export Plugin for Illustrator 8, available

at:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flwdownload/download.cgi


(Or go to the main Flash page and click the "Downloads" menu.)



> still thinking about jumping ship to freehand....


FreeHand 8 does offer more SWF support, and FreeHand 9 radically expands this:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/freehand/productinfo/features/





At 8:53 AM 2/9/0, Jason Bouwmeester wrote:

> Go to the Flash section, it is called Flashwriter, and well

> it doesn't really work all that well.


Are you having a particular problem when trying to use it?




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