Adobe Illustrator

The Adobe Illustrator format is ideal for exchanging drawings between Flash and other drawing applications such as Macromedia FreeHand. This format supports very accurate conversion of curve, line style, and fill information. Flash supports import and export of the Adobe Illustrator 88, 3, 5, 6, and 8 through 10 formats. (See Importing Adobe Illustrator, EPS, or PDF files.) Flash does not support the Photoshop EPS format or EPS files generated using the Print command.

Versions of the Adobe Illustrator format before 5 do not support gradient fills, and only version 6 supports bitmaps.

The Export Adobe Illustrator dialog box lets you select the Adobe Illustrator version—88, 3.0, 5.0, or 6.0.

You can use the Macromedia Flashwriter plug-in to export files in SWF format from Adobe Illustrator 8. Adobe Illustrator versions 9 and 10 have built-in support for SWF export, so the Macromedia Flashwriter plug-in is not needed with those applications.