Yesterday I faced the task of importing pretty complex Adobe Illustrator CS2 file into flash. File contained a lot of vector shapes for creation of characters like this one (there was a lot of characters in teh AI file):
First, I tried to import AI file with Flash 8 Professional. After import I’ve discovered that almost everything become bitmap — not the thing I need!
So I tried to import the same file with the Flash CS3 and got so pleasant surprise: excepting a couple of dashed strokes everything imported perfectly in vector!
More, when importing, I have the advanced dialog where can choose the import settings for each AI file layer - to import it as movieclip or raster, and so on. There’s a good option of selecting everything with [Ctrl + A] and setting the needed import details for all items by a couple of clicks.
One of the issues I’ve noticed during import was slightly changed red channel in images, but I think I should talk to my AI illustrator dude first and ask him to clear the color mode issue. He provided me the file in CMYK. So Flash CS3 warned me that I try to import file in CMYK mode, so I changed the Illustrator’s file color mode in AI and re-saved and re-imported the the document and all went good. But the slight color change seems to be here.
Respect Adobe: Illustrator Import to Flash CS3 is just a candy.
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Hi
I like the concept art. Good luck with that.
I’m trying to take an Illustrator file across with named vectors into Flash CS3 as named symbols. Is that something you’ve done?
This would lead to having a programmable set of items that could be cross referenced in an external database. I need to recolour the items according to other data in the database so I need a namimg convention that goes across. All I’ve fould so far is importing layers as symbols which gives a numerical sequence, but I’d prefer to get the layer name as the symbol name.
Regards
happyt / September 29th, 2007, 1:00 pm / #
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