Xara to Flash - brilliant

[gbpatriot]

I have just exported my first Xara Xtreme image into FlashMX 2004 and am so pleased with the simplicity, quality and tiny file size that I thought I might bore you all to death with a short movie of the image.

Regards

Ray

Old Dog- Flash Tricks

[pauland]

Nice job. I think the flash frame rate is a bit low though.

Paul

[Availor]

gbpatriot Nice drawing did you export it as swf and then animated it?

[gbpatriot]

AVAILOR WROTE:

gbpatriot Nice drawing did you export it as swf and then animated it?

The drawing is 100% Xara X and was exported as a .swf file.
Although the image imported perfectly into Flash MX 2004 I was disappointed that the original layers were flattened into a single layer. I understand that Illustrator 9 onwards exports to Flash with layers in tact - Ah' well - perhaps in the future.

I created a simple movie to se how it scaled.

Regards

Ray

[Egg Bramhill]

Hello Ray,

The swf export from Xtreme is very reliable. The main 2 thing I try to avoid are:

1. Feathering. It just imports as a shape with no feathering.

2. Lines. Unless your sure that you're not going to scale the image, clone everything you want as a line and convert Line to Shape. Flash is crap at scaling line widths when scaling an object.