Exporting Flash content and images
To prepare Flash content for use in other applications or to export the contents of the current Flash document in a particular file format, you use the Export Movie and Export Image commands. The Export commands do not store export settings separately with each file, as does the Publish command. (You use the Publish command to create all the files you need to put Flash content on the web. See Publishing Flash documents.)
The Export Movie command lets you export a Flash document to a still-image format and create a numbered image file for every frame in the document. You can also use Export Movie to export the sound in a document to a WAV file (Windows only).
To export the contents of the current frame or the currently selected image to one of the still-image formats, or to a single-frame Flash Player application, you use the Export Image command.
Keep the following considerations in mind:
- When you export a Flash image as a vector-graphic file (in Adobe Illustrator format), you preserve its vector information. You can edit these files in other vector-based drawing programs, but you can't import these images into most page-layout and word-processing programs.
- When you save a Flash image as a bitmap GIF, JPEG, PICT (Macintosh), or BMP (Windows) file, the image loses its vector information and is saved with pixel information only. You can edit Flash images exported as bitmaps in image editors such as Adobe Photoshop, but you can no longer edit them in vector-based drawing programs.
- Open the Flash document you want to export, or if you are exporting an image from the document, select the frame or image in the current document that you want to export.
- Select File > Export Movie or File > Export Image.
- Enter a name for the output file.
- Select the file format from the Format pop-up menu.
- Click Save.
If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.
- Set the export options for the format you selected. See About export file formats.
- Click OK, then click Save.
To export a Flash document or image: