# Someone Explain How To Convert .SWF to a .GIF File
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 8, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229 "2002-05-08T03:58:26Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/1 "2002-05-08T03:58:26Z")
How?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/2 "2002-05-08T04:24:58Z")
why?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/3 "2002-05-08T04:29:29Z")
lol… sometimes you just need to Jubba. 😉 \r\rFirst off… not everything can be converted. If you’re just talking about a basic animation then it’s really not too difficult. Keep in mind the nature of gifs though… they work better if you have a small number of colors, and gradients suck. In almost all cases I’ve found the swf to be of smaller file size than it’s Gif equivilant. In fact, I’ve taken a lot of Gifs, imported them into Flash, and published a smaller swf than the origional… Just things to keep in mind.\r\rThe option to make a Gif is in your publish settings.\r\r"File/Publish setttings"\r\rClick the gif checkbox. Then choose it’s tab and see what options are there.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/4 "2002-05-08T23:40:18Z")
Its not showing up too well…I did the publish settings thing. And I can’t find it… It doesn’t really save anywhere either…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/5 "2002-05-09T00:13:25Z")
And when I am done publishing into GIF and I try it out… it doesn’t do anything… I want the gif animated too… Can I ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/6 "2002-05-09T02:31:54Z")
if you are using actionscript in your SWF then I don’t think that exporting them to a GIF works because the GIF doesn’t support the actionscript…not sure about it though…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/7 "2002-05-09T04:12:49Z")
yes what jubba said above is true.\r\ras for it saving… if you have the GIF check box checked, and you hit publish, Flash IS saving a GIF of the indicated name, where ever the FLA is saved on your comp. Why it wouldn’t show up is a mystery to me. I’ve never had any problem doing that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/8 "2002-05-09T05:49:16Z")
i @#%$ around and I finally got it… pz
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2002, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/someone-explain-how-to-convert-swf-to-a-gif-file/2229/9 "2002-05-09T08:43:53Z")
🙂 … glad it finaly worked.