Copy & Paste Flash- Illustrator

I'm having a lot of trouble copying artwork from Flash into
other vector-based programs. It seems like what's happening is that
it's dropping a bunch of vertices and/or only transfering straight
lines instead of curves. For instance, I have
this symbol in
Flash. When I copy and paste it into Illustrator I get
this. As I'm
sure you can see, it completely drops the dark line at one end
(which is technically a shape, not a line), and it mangles the
shape of the main piece.
I'm using Flash 8 and Illustrator CS but I'm pretty sure it's
a problem in Flash. I have the same problem when I copy from Flash
8 into Flash MX 2004. I _don't_ have this problem, though, when
copying from MX 2004 to other programs.
Here are the settings from Flash 8's Clipboard preferences
panel (though I don't think any of these should have any bearing on
this problem):
Color Depth: Match Screen
Resolution: 300 dpi
Size Limit: 1000Kb
"Smooth" is checked
Gradient Quality: Normal
Freehand text: maintain as blocks

flash 8 and AI are 2 different apps developed (at the time)
by 2 different companies - so copy/paste
between them isn't directly supported but you may get lucky
depending on the artwork.
Just export from flash to eps or AI - then open in AI.
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animator_geek wrote:
> I'm having a lot of trouble copying artwork from Flash
into other vector-based
> programs. It seems like what's happening is that it's
dropping a bunch of
> vertices and/or only transfering straight lines instead
of curves. For
> instance, I have
http://www.dontfearthesitter.com/bob1.png.
When I copy and
> paste it into Illustrator I get
http://www.dontfearthesitter.com/bob2.png.
As
> I'm sure you can see, it completely drops the dark line
at one end (which is
> technically a shape, not a line), and it mangles the
shape of the main piece.
>
> I'm using Flash 8 and Illustrator CS but I'm pretty sure
it's a problem in
> Flash. I have the same problem when I copy from Flash 8
into Flash MX 2004. I
> _don't_ have this problem, though, when copying from MX
2004 to other programs.
>
> Here are the settings from Flash 8's Clipboard
preferences panel (though I
> don't think any of these should have any bearing on this
problem):
>
> Color Depth: Match Screen
> Resolution: 300 dpi
> Size Limit: 1000Kb
> "Smooth" is checked
> Gradient Quality: Normal
> Freehand text: maintain as blocks
>
>

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