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Integrating with Illustrator

Integrating with Illustrator

Just as there are multiple ways to get Photoshop artwork into Flash, there are multiple ways to get Illustrator artwork into Flash. In this movie, we'll look at getting Illustrator artwork into Flash and Flash artwork into Illustrator. One method is to simply copy and paste artwork from Illustrator to Flash. I'm going to tab over to Illustrator and I'll select some artwork on the Stage in my open Illustrator file. I'm going to press the Copy command then tab back over to Flash and paste the artwork. From here, I can choose to paste as a bitmap or paste using AI File Importer preferences. Then I can choose Apply recommended settings to resolve the incompatibilities and I can choose to maintain layers. I'm just going to check the Apply recommended import settings box and I'll click OK. And there we have it. I have vector art copied and pasted from Illustrator. Now let's say I wanted to get this piece of artwork back into Illustrator. To do that, I can export this as a new file format…

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