Converting SWF To Gif Animation File
Is that possible? I notice that under "Publish", it gives me the option to publish the file to Gif, but it only shows up the background image. Please help.
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Posted on: 06-29-2006, 02:07 PM
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Has anyone got any bright ideas of how to Convert a PDF to a Flash FLA file without converting to an image first?
I know I can open a PDF in Photoshop, save as a PNG or JPG and then import this into Flash, however the quality isn't brilliant. If you use a hi-res image, then you get a hi-res file size...
Currently, the best way I have found, is to open the PDF in Illustrator, then export it as a SWF. Illustrator converts all text to shapes and you end up with a small SWF, yet great quality when displayed in larger sizes. As I'm currently using a page turning flash component that loads SWF files, I need the quality to be good for the 'Zoom' function.
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Thanks in advance for any help! :)
Attach Code
var targetDateX:String = "targetDate" + i;
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var targetDateA:Date = new Date (this[targetDateX]);
//attempting to set it into a date format
trace (this[targetDateX]);
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Basically, what I thought would have been quite easy is actually confusing me now and i'm not sure what the best way is to go about this.
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Cheers RR
Animation Before I Load An External .swf File
I have been facing this problem for many days. The problem is that its hard to search for a tutorial for this one. Okay here it goes.. ill try to be as simple as possible.
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I wonder if i was precise with my problem.. please help...
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