Groups | Blog | Home
all groups > flash (macromedia) > february 2007 >

flash (macromedia) : Importing SWF creates bitmap and graphic


David Stiller
2/21/2007 12:41:34 PM
B_Milou,

[quoted text, click to view]

Okay.

[quoted text, click to view]

Photoshop is a raster image editor. It has some vector capability, but
generally speaking, it creates bitmaps. It, coupled with ImageReady, may
have the capability of exporting those bitmaps as SWF files, but those SWFs
are merely "wrappers" for a bunch of bimap files.

[quoted text, click to view]

If you want to tween these assets, you'll likely want the symbols (not
the image files) on the Stage.

[quoted text, click to view]

Yes. The symbols merely hold the image files. If you delete the image
files, the symbols will be empty.


David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog, http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

B_Milou
2/21/2007 4:58:37 PM
:confused; I've created my user interface in Photoshop > opened file in
ImageReady and exported document as SWF for my Flash 8 pro. When the SWF is
imported to Library in Flash, the library gets a bitmap AND a graphic of each
image.

Can someone explain why?

Which should I use on the stage?

Do I need to keep both library items?

*Confused*
B_Milou
3/2/2007 5:33:17 PM
AddThis Social Bookmark Button