Print postscript files from flash cs3 to get vector information

I've been playing around with some dynamic flash paintings
and would like to export the vector information. I've tried
choosing "print--save pdf--save pdf as postscript" I installed
Adobe's PS drivers. I set up a virtual printer on localhost using
AdobeDistiller. This is not working for me.
I witnessed flash exporting vector information this way on a
pc, but can't seem to get this working on a mac. The pc user
downloaded and installed postscript drivers from Adobe and used a
similar method.
I'm on Mac OS 10.4.11
Any ideas? This has been frustrating me for some time.
Thanks ahead of time for the help!

There are several ways to do this.
The easiest one, I think, is exporting a FLV file from the Render Queue, picking in the Outpit Module one of the "Same as source (Flash 8 and Higher)" FLV presets, modified manually just to enable the "Encode Alpha Channel" checkbox.
Because of a known limitation in the Flash authoring app, which can only handle embedded transparency information correctly when done in a certain way, it's strongly recommended after settting the FLV encoding options that you set the "Color" menu in the Output Module to "Straight (Unmatted)". Otherwise you may get ugly halos around certain elements.

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