Hi

I have done a few rather complex animated gif images using Xara. I am wondering what advantage Macromedia Flash has over gifs.

I don’t know anything about Flash. Does the package have an inbuilt vector editor that you use to build the animation or is it best to use something like Xara and import the objects?

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Ron
If you want to export an animation via swf, you need to export each frame one at a time unfortunately,
Egg
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As regards to exporting from Xara to Flash. What would be the difference between doing a Ctrl-A (select all) copy each frame from within Xara and pasting into Flash verses using the Xara’s .swf export tool?

Also, can anyone suggest an inexpensive way of getting started.. - Flash MX 2004 or Macromedia Studio MX 2004 or something else ?

Many Thanks,
Steve