Psd to swf

Imageready CS2 had a fantastic export to swf option that as far as I can tell has completely dissapeared. Can we please get this back? It allowed you to take vector based layers in photoshop (with solid fills) right into flash and maintain full editablity. Although it is nice that you can now open PSDs directly in Flash if you do open a vector based shape it now gives you the path as a mask and then rasterizes the fill. Its crazy! You end up with a folder full of un-editable raster fills and file sizes almost 5 times as big. I realize the other option is to take a PSD through Illustrator but the process is much slower (seconds become minutes) and both the document size and the grouping of layers gets messed up. Please help.

There is a few ways you can do this. First of all I'm assuming you know that the Image Ready Animation features are all in the Window -> Animation tab. From there, you can choose File -> Export -> Render Video... and choose either an actual video file, which could then be made into an .FLV for flash, or export as a JPG/GIF Sequence which could be imported to the Flash timeline.
Hope this helps!
Jesse
EDIT: Just noticed you were wanting it exported as a compiled .swf. Sorry, I believe that was only with Fireworks that you could do that... i think FLV is your best bet for filesize now anyway.
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I remember exporting an animated psd file from photoshop into a compiled flash file (swf) awhile back. But in CS5 I cannot find this feature. Was it available earlier only (through ImageReady)? How can I do this now?
Thank you

There is a few ways you can do this. First of all I'm assuming you know that the Image Ready Animation features are all in the Window -> Animation tab. From there, you can choose File -> Export -> Render Video... and choose either an actual video file, which could then be made into an .FLV for flash, or export as a JPG/GIF Sequence which could be imported to the Flash timeline.
Hope this helps!
Jesse
EDIT: Just noticed you were wanting it exported as a compiled .swf. Sorry, I believe that was only with Fireworks that you could do that... i think FLV is your best bet for filesize now anyway.
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Please Help me with this flash problem, my life is depending on this!

If you visit www.fishtv.tv there is a flash document on the
left side, it is a box with pictures scrolling. I NEED to know how
what to open it with, and how to add a picture into it. Please if
you have any information how to accomplish this task reply to this
thread, OR send me an email at [email protected] It will be
very much appreciated, thanks.

SWF is to FLA the same way JPG is to PSD. SWF is the compiled
(think flattened) format. Like urami
once said, you can't get the egg back after making the
omelette. There are SWF decompilers (search
google or this forum) out there but most will (if not all)
will merely allow you to obtain the
"guts" of an swf - you will not really end up with the
original FLA again. MUCH easier to try and
locate the FLA or rebuild the site. Surely there's a back-up
of the source somewhere?
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> i have the swf file, and i open it in flash and it shows
the final product, I dont know how to get it back to its orginal
file.

Unable to export SWF, if I've used PSD layers

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I have to batch process images into multiple formats as well and Actions have saved me so much time. I work primarily in print, so I'll admit I'm not familiar with the process you need to go through to save your SWF files, but you could always try to record the steps into an Action.
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Per AS3 documentation:
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SWF files written in ActionScript 1.0 or 2.0 cannot load SWF files written in ActionScript 3.0. This means that SWF files authored in Flash 8 or Flex Builder 1.5 or earlier versions cannot load ActionScript 3.0 SWF files.
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Re-positioning a swf file in dreamweaver?

Hi,
I am Graphic designer currently learning the ropes of webdesign..so this may be a noobish question as i have NO IDEA when it comes to html code...
I created a design in photoshop and saved my pages, images slices etc in html and opened it in dreamweaver.
My Problem is... i have a "swf flash slide show file" which i want to re-position roughly in the center of the html page, which for the life of me i cannot do!
I have tried aligning it center etc...but the swf file only seems to move around the edges of my html page.
Is it possible for the swf to be centered within my html page.
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SWF into photo gallery page, but thumb links stopped

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PSD files don't up-load because "maximum compatability" issues

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Usually I expand appearance of pattern swatches and pathfinder the pieces together so there are no seams, but this file was a headache to break apart, the lines jog. If I save out as a jpg the lines go away, but the lines also jog. (see attached) If I save out as a .psd the lines still appear.
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Graham
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The best thing you can do is talk your boss out of it.
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When Importing PSDs to Flash why do you end up with bitmap colour information (which of course is not editable), if you start with vector shapes in Photoshop. I still don't understand why they got rid of export swf when they ditched imageready after cs2. It used to work so well.

Thanks for your reply. I figured it out, It just took some time. I have to
delete that post because it´s stupid.
Pietari
2010/5/4 kglad <[email protected]>
actionscript in the imported swfs will not work and never did work in any
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comment on how that worked.
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