----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Pace" <[email protected]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] best way to save as pdf from flash?
Hi Paul,
No one else uses Xara, and it lacks a lot of photo editing and brush
customization features; however, it does look neat for vectors.
Xara is Vector programme with a bit of photoediting. Your comment is a bit
like criticising Flash for not being as good as photoshop for playing with
pixels. Xara is way ahead of flash in terms of vector illustration. As for
nobody else using Xara, well the Xara community know it's a well kept
secret. They keep churning out great artwork and use it in preference to
illustrator. Anyway..
The situation is, the flash IDE doesn't work the way I would like, so I
have decided to make my own little application that outputs to pdf.
I think you're trying to say that the IDE should export to PDF. Is that
right? At first I thought you were talking about flash at runtime, not the
IDE. I use flash for motion work and really a PDF export would be pointless
since most of my motion work doesn't use the timeline.
Anyway, I've finally twigged what you're up to. Have fun.
Paul
I might also make an extension, as that would be useful to more people
than just me; yet, I would need to put aside a little time to mess around.
Thanks,
Anthony
Paul Andrews wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Taka Kojima" <[email protected]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] best way to save as pdf from flash?
I believe he is trying to export as a PDF from FlashPlayer, not from
Flash itself....
You could be right, but Antony has been going on about the IDE and
illustrator, so for such a simple subject, I'm a bit confused what
exactly he's up to..
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Paul Andrews <[email protected]>
wrote:
If you're using Flash as some high end illustration program, do
yourself a
favour and use Xara Xtreme (http://www.xara.com/uk/products/xtreme/) -
it
has native PDF export and is far more
capable than flash for illustration..
Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Pace"
<[email protected]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] best way to save as pdf from flash?
I was referring to the ide; yet, even the flashplayer has the the same
printing bugs
-screenshots are out of the question; as I usually am printing very
large
files
-I have already tried printing directly to a PDF print server, from
the
flash IDE; however, the effects I place on MCs don't seem to stay.
-I would use illustrator; yet, it just doesn't have a lot of flash's
capabilities, and vise versa when doing extrusions for illustration or
using livepaint. I know I can export the paths to illustrator; yet,
the
effects don't transfer well, if at all, and I am not a fan of the poor
quality of some of the illustrator effects.
-I know that I could convert the movie clip to a bitmap in as3 and
then
either convert it to a pdf or png/jpg using a decent library, or
printing
it as a converted bitmap to a pdf server(as long as the pixel count is
less than 16,775,168, a problem when converting to posters that need a
bare minimum quality of 300 dpi at 27" x 41" or 99,630,000 pixels),
and it
will be the direction I am going in; however, I really shouldn't have
to
program this myself, as it should already be a capability of the ide,
along with better integration with photoshop and illustrator and much
much
better file conversion.
Printing from the flash IDE or a much better form of integration with
illustrator and photoshop would be best.
Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
I am assuming you are talking about the IDE?
Are you doing screenshots for the client?
It might not be helpful, but I just do Test Movie then Alt+Print
Screen or Ctrl+Print Screen and paste into my graphics program...
Alternatively look at CutePDF or one of the "free" PDF printers that
might help.
Printing from SWF's with the FP Printer - you can draw into a bitmap
first, then print the MC with that in - this means all your filters &
fonts should have been rasterised.
HTH - might have misunderstood your request...
Glen
Anthony Pace wrote:
I would print directly to pdf; yet, I lose the effects I have placed
on
MCs; as well, saving it to illustrator directly is a problem,
because
flash will screw up the file header when a custom font that I use is
required.
Thus, because flash doesn't have a decent printer driver, and its
file
conversion methods suck, my current process is:
I create an swf of the dimensions I want in inches (e.g. 8.5 x 11)
I convert to png and choose a DPI of something like 300 to indicate
high
resolution, and I select 24 bit, with no alpha channel, in order to
avoid the ARGB conversion that is screwed for flash.
I open that png and I open something like photoshop/illustrator that
allows you to convert to a pdf.
Is there a better way?
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