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ILLUSTRATOR CS3

User Guide

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Importing Illustrator files into Flash

When you want to create complete layouts in Illustrator and then import them into Flash in one step, you can save

your artwork in the native Illustrator format (AI) and import it, with high fidelity, into Flash using the File

> Import

To Stage or File

> Import To Library commands in Flash.

When you import Illustrator artwork as an AI, EPS, or PDF file, Flash preserves the same attributes as for pasted

Illustrator artwork.

In addition, when an imported Illustrator file contains layers, you can import them in any of the following ways:

• Convert Illustrator layers to Flash layers

• Convert Illustrator layers to Flash frames

• Convert each Illustrator layer to a Flash graphic symbol

• Covert all Illustrator layers to a single Flash layer

Symbol workflow

Symbol workflow in Illustrator is similar to symbol workflow in Flash.

Symbol creation When you create a symbol in Illustrator, the Symbol Options dialog box lets you name the symbol

and set options specific to Flash: movie clip symbol type (which is the default for Flash symbols), Flash registration

grid location, and 9-slice scaling guides. In addition, you can use many of the same symbol keyboard shortcuts in

Illustrator and Flash (such as F8 to create a symbol).

Isolation mode for symbol editing In Illustrator, double-click a symbol to open it in isolation mode for easier

editing. In isolation mode, only the symbol instance is editable—all other objects on the artboard are dimmed and

unavailable. After you exit isolation mode, the symbol in the Symbols panel, and all instances of that symbol are

updated accordingly. In Flash, symbol-editing mode and the Library panel work in a similar fashion.

Symbol properties and links Using the Symbols panel or the Control panel, you can easily assign names to symbol

instances, break links between instances and symbols, swap a symbol instance with another symbol, or create a copy

of the symbol. In Flash, the editing features in the Library panel work in a similar way.

Static, dynamic, and input text objects

When you bring static text from Illustrator into Flash, Flash converts the text to outlines. If you have a Smart Object

workflow in Illustrator, you can take the text back to Illustrator for editing. In addition, you can set up your text in

Illustrator as dynamic text. Dynamic text enables you to edit text content programmatically in Flash, and easily

manage projects that require localization in multiple languages.

In Illustrator, you can specify individual text objects as static, dynamic, or input text. Dynamic text objects in

Illustrator and Flash have similar properties. For example, both use kerning that affects all characters in a text block

rather than individual characters, both anti-alias text the same way, and both can be linked to an external XML file

containing text.

Optimizing images

Save For Web & Devices overview

You use the Save For Web & Devices dialog box (File > Save For Web & Devices) to select optimization options and

preview optimized artwork.

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