About Export File Formats - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

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.
Remember the following considerations:
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.
To export a Flash document or image:
1. 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.
2. Select File > Export Movie or File > Export Image.
3. Enter a name for the output file.
4. Select the file format from the Format pop-up menu.
5.
Click Save.
If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.
6.
Set the export options for the format you selected. See the following section.
7.
Click OK, then click Save.

About export file formats

You can export Flash content and images in more than a dozen formats, as shown in
the following table. Flash content is exported as sequences, and images are exported as
individual files. PNG is the only cross-platform bitmap format that supports transparency (as
an alpha channel). Some nonbitmap export formats do not support alpha (transparency)
effects or mask layers.
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