# Flash and Illustrator woes
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 5, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561 "2003-06-05T14:58:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@charliealpha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/charliealpha)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/1 "2003-06-05T14:58:30Z")
Hello,
Nice forums 🙂 I hope this is the right place for this question.
I’m trying to make a site using Flash and the ai files I’m trying to import in to the movies are giving me some grief.
I want to have a the logo fade in and pulse, nothing amazing and I’ve got that bit covered. But I might be back for some help later 🙂
However, its all looking a bit ropey:
[http://www.charliealpha.co.uk/sites/msp/test/main.swf](http://www.charliealpha.co.uk/sites/msp/test/main.swf)
As you can see the body of the logo is all screwed up. So I have the logo in illustrator:
[http://www.charliealpha.co.uk/sites/msp/example.gif](http://www.charliealpha.co.uk/sites/msp/example.gif)
but cannot work out what to do with it. I can save it as PNG or something similar but it loses its crispness being a rasterized graphic. How do I go about turning this into something I can use in Flash keeping it looking nice?
I’m a relative novice and have used a bit of both these apps in the past 🙂
many thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/2 "2003-06-05T15:19:37Z")
In Illustrator Show the Pathfinder (Window \> Pathfinder) and with all the paths selected click on the exclude button. This will simplify the logo by making the white outline the complete shape.
Then try importing this into Flash.
If this isn’t what you want, then it may be better redrawing the logo in Flash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/3 "2003-06-05T15:51:37Z")
I see, thats turned it into a compund path.
I’ll have a little play with that 🙂
thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/4 "2003-06-06T08:23:17Z")
well it appears Illustrator is being a pain in the butt, had to revert to Freehand in the end 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/5 "2003-06-06T08:32:11Z")
Hmm…since Illustrator is a vector program, why don’t you just copy and paste the logo from the Illustrator stage straight into the flash stage.
I do it all the time and it works for me. Once it’s in flash, it will be grouped together so you might want to break it apart by selecting it and pressing Ctrl B or command B if you’re on a Mac.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/6 "2003-06-06T10:27:35Z")
omg! charliealpha? as in q3 charliealpha? what are YOU doing here? 😉
w00t!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/7 "2003-06-06T14:02:59Z")
> \*Originally posted by E G \*
> \*\*Hmm…since Illustrator is a vector program, why don’t you just copy and paste the logo from the Illustrator stage straight into the flash stage.
I do it all the time and it works for me. Once it’s in flash, it will be grouped together so you might want to break it apart by selecting it and pressing Ctrl B or command B if you’re on a Mac. \*\*
Tried that too, the logo has been constructed in such a way that it loses its paths if I try anything ☹
Still Freehand is nice 🙂
> \*Originally posted by asphaltcowboy \*
> \*\*omg! charliealpha? as in q3 charliealpha? what are YOU doing here? 😉
w00t! \*\*
no way!
well its a small small internet after all 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/8 "2003-06-06T14:22:04Z")
hahaha, lo m8. [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) has been my secret hiding place whilst not playing q3 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/9 "2003-06-06T15:29:07Z")
> \*Originally posted by asphaltcowboy \*
> \*\*hahaha, lo m8. [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) has been my secret hiding place whilst not playing q3 😉 \*\*
your secret’s safe with me mang :toad:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-illustrator-woes/22561/10 "2003-06-06T15:30:26Z")
coo’ man, coo’ 😉