Flex and Vector Graphics

Hello!
How can I use vector graphics in Flex that were drawn in say Adobe Illustrator?
In the Flash IDE I can just copy-paste on the stage for example.
Thank you.

Google FXG graphics for use in MXML. The newer versions of Creative Suite support exporting graphics in the FXG format.

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Raster and vector..Photoshop to Illustrator

I created a logo in Photoshop (it is now a raster image), now need to enlarge it and have it printed on Tshirts and signs. Can I transfer it to Illustrator making it a Vector file, or does it need to be created in Illustrator to be a Vector file?

Kristi,
The difference between raster and vector graphics is far more than just resolution dependence. That's just one aspect. Just as important--even moreso in textile screen printing--is that vector artwork is built from objects. This makes all the difference in the world wihen it comes to practical production needs for "logos" and for screen printing.
For example: Okay, suppose the raster image of the "logo" is oversampled enough to avoid pixelation (which is actually less of an issue with screen printing) when enlarged to the size needed for the T-shirt. Someone's making a blunderbuss statement like "you can then color separate it" isn't even beginning to think through the practical requirements of the reproduction process. Yes, you can print color separations from a raster image. But what kind of separations do you get? Assuming a CMYK or RGB raster image, you'll get halftone dots. Halftone dots are inherently problematic in screen printing. Most common screen printing assumes line art and spot color, not contone art separated to halftones.
There are methods for creating raster artwork in Photoshop which will result in color separations suitable for spot color and screen printing separations, but it's far more involved than just designing in CMYK or RGB and then making some automagic "conversion." It requires just as much forethought and understanding of the process as building it correctly as vector artwork.
To advise you correctly, one has to know more about the specific situation in question regarding the specific original artwork and the capabilities of the screen printing house re halftones and color separations.
A similar set of considerations apply to signs (which you also mention.)
Trust me: If your focus is "logos" destined for screen printing and/or signage, and you intend to make it your standard workflow to create the original artwork in Photoshop and then use Illustrator as some kind of automagic "conversion" utility when you think you need vector graphics--then you are very much barking up the wrong tree, and are creating untold problems for yourself before you even start.
JET

My vector graphic looks pixelated when I scale it down

I'm using CS5 on Mac OSX 10.7.4 and the graphic looks pretty good at 100%, and prints just fine. The design shop is trying to put it on a coffee cup though, and when they scale it down, it looks horrible. Pixelated everywhere. Am I doing something wrong?
-antialiasing is on
-resolution is 300 DPI
-align to pixel grid is not checked.
Here is a screen shot at 100%
Here is a screen shot after I scale the object 70%... looks pretty bad.
I am new to Illustrator and vector graphics so I am sure this is some setting I don't understand. Thanks for any help you can give!

check my post #20 in this thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/4455955#4455955 I tried to explain what is causing this. Nothing to worry about it won't affect the printed result.
However this statement of yours could be a cause of concern if you are talking about the printed image.
.... The design shop is trying to put it on a coffee cup though, and when they scale it down, it looks horrible. Pixelated everywhere. ...

Vector graphics & animation using Flex

Hi,
I want to draw a vector graphics in flex 3 then later on I
need to do some animation on it. But I encounter some problem and I
cannot solve it and I get this error message "1120: Access of
undefined property circle". Thanks... Here is the code:
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.display.*;
private var circle:Shape = new Shape()
var xPos:Number = 100;
var yPos:Number = 100;
var radius:Number = 50;
circle.graphics.beginFill(0xFF8800);
circle.graphics.drawCircle(xPos, yPos, radius);
addChild(circle);
]]>
</mx:Script>

You can declare and initialize variables in a <script>
tag outside a function, but manipulating them must be done in a
function. In this case, having a function for the creationComplete,
or perhaps the initialize events works well.
Also, you can't add shapes by themselves to the app, you must
wrap them in a UIComponent.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="init()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.UIComponent;
import flash.display.*;
private var circle:Shape = new Shape();
private function init():void{
var xPos:Number = 100;
var yPos:Number = 100;
var radius:Number = 50;
circle.graphics.beginFill(0xFF8800);
circle.graphics.drawCircle(xPos, yPos, radius);
var comp:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
comp.addChild(circle);
addChild(comp);
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

How to copy and paste vector graphics

I have a program that draws curves and I would like to copy and paste them as a path into Adobe Photoshop.
I am using the Clipboard class (Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard()), but I
do not know what string I should use for the StringSelection argument in the setContents method. I tried the
string that describes my curves in PostScript.
But that didn't even work for pasting into Adobe Illustrator, although Illustrator is capable of opening
a PostScript file. (However Photoshop only opens a PostScript file as a bitmap, not as a path.)
With Illustrator, instead of pasting the curves, it just pasted the PostScript text.
Please help.
Thanks.

For me, freehep is the fifth hit when googling "java vector graphics library". But of course I don't get to "[Access hidden information|http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html]" without paying up :).
For a simpler way: since you already say you can save to postscript, make a temporary ps file and export it in a file list (keywords "java drag and drop files"). Perhaps Illustrator then opens the file and the user can copy/paste it there. Otherwise you have to figure out what Illustrator expects on the clipboard and put it there in the same format.
Another option might be to use some com wrapper to talk to Illustrator directly (but probably need a commercial com wrapper for that).

Export a PDF and convert the vector-graphics to pixel-graphics

Hey,
i want to export a PDF out of indesign CS3 and convert all vector-graphics to pixel-graphics.
Is there any solution, maybe a plugin, to do this?
Thanks!!!!

You could apply a transparency effect to your vector objects that doesn't effect their appearance and make a flattener preset which forces everything to rasters—then export a flattened PDF using that preset. Why do need rasters?

Loading vector graphics at runtime

Hi,
I'd like to know if there is any way or any vector graphic file format that i can load dynamically at runtime on a web-based flash application.
I have some files in pdf that i want to load in and i can convert them to jpgs at runtime and load the jpgs but then i lose vector graphics so when i zoom in and out they become pixelated.
I had a look a look at flashpaper to convert pdf to swf and load them in but i can't see anywhere in the documentation about converting the pdf's at runtime rather than manually dragging and dropping them in.
So far i've looked at pdf, svg and .ai but none of these can be loaded at run time just imported into the .FLA
So can this be done? Or alternatively is there an application that can do the pdf -> swf conversion from the commandline then i could trigger php to do the conversion at runtime.
thanks in advance.
Greg

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I have a task to save running SWF file to be saved as vector graphics file format and get the same back in the Flex application. Request you to tell me what can be the vector graphics file extension and help me out how to achieve this task.
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How do you prevent Acrobat PDFMaker from rasterizing vector graphics?

I am using the "Create PDF" button (provided by the Acrobat PDFMaker in Acrobat X) to create a PDF from a Microsoft Word 2010 document.
This works fine, except that vector graphics in the Word document appear in the resulting PDF as raster graphics. (That is, when I zoom in, document text outside the graphics appears smooth, but the graphics are blocky; and text inside the graphics that should be retained as text - it's not converted to curves - is just pixels.)
The original artwork for the vector graphics is in CorelDRAW X6 (sorry, Adobe!).
I have exported the following files from the original vector drawing in CorelDRAW:
- EPS (with TIFF preview)
- Windows metafile (.wmf)
- Enhanced metafile (.emf)
I can insert any of these files into Word okay (Insert > Picture), but the resulting PDF always contains a rasterized (bitmapped) version of the vector graphic ("line art").
From memory, this didn't use to happen in my previous working environment (Acrobat 8 Pro with Word 2003, using artwork exported from CorelDRAW 12).
How do you prevent Acrobat X PDFMaker from rasterizing vector graphics? Or is Word 2010 (or CorelDRAW X6) somehow to "blame" here?

Transparency Flattening is being invoked.
From the Create PDF button, select Properties, what is your setting for Default Settings? Select High Quality Print

Vector graphics with Photoshop Elements 13

How can I maintain the vector graphics that are saved for Illustrator (AI or EPS) in Photoshop Element 13. There are a lot of free typography graphics for Illustrator that I would love to use in Photoshop Elements 13
Mireille

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Replacing bitmap text with vector graphic text

In a layout for an ebook I have some important black and white bitmap illustrations in tiff., 300 dpi. These have appeared ok on print, but on screen, reading the same pdf-file, they´re unacceptable, especially some texts in fontsize 5-6 pt are unclear. People tell me I have to convert the drawings, or at least the texts, to vector graphics.
Question: Can I open these tiff.s in Photoshop, change only the texts to vector graphics and then save in a format, that can be inserted in the Word2010 layout? (You might wonder why I use Word, but it was a question of economy, when the project was started up). Or are there other ways? Thanks for any answers!

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Novice: Can I add vector graphics to a pdf?

Have Acrobat Pro 7 but have been using it only for creating simple pdfs from Office documents.
I'm starting my education on other capabilities.
Can I add vector graphics (shapes, text) to a pdf or do I need to get the pdf into a tool like AI first?
We're going to be working with maps (GIS output) and, to start, I'm assuming we'll want the maps as pdfs. In some cases we'll want to add some markup.
Thanks
Tom

As PDF is, essentially, a "non-editable" format (aside from minor touchups) you'll want to work content in an authoring application.
Output a PDF, containing the vector graphics, from an authoring application.
Provide the desired PDF page content in an authoring application as well.
Be well...

Reduce file size vector graphics

When it comes to imported vector graphics are there any methods to decrease the swf's file size as much as possible?
So far I have:
- imported an illustrator ai file (strokes 'expanded' in illustrator and unneeded swatches/brushes etc. deleted and with no raster images embedded)
- exported the file in illustrator as swf and imported that swf into flash
- imported ai file and breaking it down to flash shapes
- optimized those shapes as much as possible
I rather use vector as much as possible. For a banner for examle, I've imported vector images of trees. I couldn't get it below 40 kb so I exported all illustrator files to png files which helped. Can detailed vector images be optimized just as much? Or is it better to use bitmap files when it comes to more detailed graphics? Does it matter if it is a vector images made in flash or a imported vector file even if both have the same number of paths?
Any other ideas I might try besides the things I've already tried?

There is a certain threshold when a bitmap can actually be smaller than a detailed vector graphic. Especially when working on small image sizes, bitmaps can often be quite smaller.
For a vector graphic, you can't do more than reducing the number of vertexes which may result in a poorer graphic.
With bitmaps, you can do a lot more:
Keep in mind that bitmaps with an alpha channel use up much more memory than bitmaps without alpha information. So try to reach your goal without using transparent bitmaps - which seems hard in the beginning, but as Flash provides different blending modes, you can, for example use the blending mode "multiply" for a black logo on a white background with just a grayscale bitmap instead of a bitmap with alpha channel information.
The same is valid for a white logo on a black background: Use the "add" blending mode instead, then.
I have also written some Photoshop Plugins to reduce the alpha-channel bit-resolution which sometimes gives me the extra 3-4kb I needed. Instead of using 256 shades of alpha, it reduces them to maybe 8 or 16. Alpha-Channels are comressed like GIF/PNG images inside of flash, so having as few different shades of alpha as possible will make images smaller. I even use dithering sometimes for softer alpha areas.
In some rare cases, you can also gain some bytes if you convert text to vector graphics (pressing CTRL-B twice), but this only works when there's not much text at all. That's because the metric information for text glyphs take up a bit more space then just the shapes. So you can imagine that this may only work if there is just one text element with all different letters. So you won't get much size reduction by converting "abracadabra". But you will get some reduction if you convert "the quick brown fox jumps" into shapes.
This all can help if you have restrictions like 30kb or even 20kb to create a full animated flash banner.

Jagged vector graphics from Illustrator in Indesign

Using CS3, Leopard, have all updates.
I'm having problems with vector graphics created in Illustrator getting jagged when dragged from Illustrator to Indesign (or copied and pasted or placed as Illustrator file). They look jagged (stair stepped) in InDesign, also in Acrobat after exporting a pdf, and after printing. The vector image in question is a rectangle with rounded corners with an "Envelope Distort - make with warp" applied to it. Is the problem that I'm trying to drag an envelope distorted graphic into InDesign? Are there settings to make this work?

"They look jagged (stair stepped) in InDesign, also in Acrobat after exporting a pdf, and after printing."
Doesn't sound like a screen preview issue to me.
If a placed AI file has jagged edges on print and in PDF, but looks good in Illy, then something is amiss. Your transparency settings could be set to rasterize the line art. Make sure you're using one of the canned flattener presets (high, med, low) if there is any transparency in your page (little checkered icon by the page icon in the page palette).
J

How to Use the Scalable Vector Graphics API (JSR 226)

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How can I create this as a vector graphic?

HI Folks,
I'd like to create the attached as a vector graphic, can anyone tell me the best way to do this in Fireworks CS3?
http://www.sandwell.nhs.uk/circles.jpg
I've tried to draw it using the pen tool, but it doesnt look accurate.
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Hi matthisco
Go to vector tools and choose the donut tool. Draw a circle and use the yellow spots to adjust the edges minimize the fill area and drag the segment you want to cut so it looks like you want. For the circle choose no fill, and stroke about 20-25px , stroke category 1-pixel soft.

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