About copying artwork with the Clipboard

Elements copied to the Clipboard are anti-aliased, so they look as good in other applications as they do in Flash. This is particularly useful for frames that include a bitmap image, gradients, transparency, or a mask layer.

Graphics pasted from other Flash documents or programs are placed in the current frame of the current layer. How a graphic element is pasted into a Flash scene depends on the type of element it is, its source, and the preferences you have set:

• Text from a text editor becomes a single text object.
• Vector-based graphics from any drawing program become a group that can be ungrouped and edited like any other Flash element.
• Bitmaps become a single grouped object just like imported bitmaps. You can break apart pasted bitmaps or convert pasted bitmaps to vector graphics.

  For information on converting bitmaps to vector graphics, see Converting bitmaps to vector graphics.

  Note: Before pasting graphics from FreeHand into Flash, set your FreeHand export preferences to convert colors to CMYK and RGB for Clipboard formats.