Can I licence Animate 2018, or export a swf from a symbol in Animate 2024

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Hi!I need to be able to export a swf from a singular symbol in a document with many other symbols in it. I used to be able to do this in Animate 2018, but I am unable to find a way to do it in 2024 so far. I can export a swf but it exports everything in the document rather than just the symbol I have open. I was hoping that I could just licence Animate 2018 and use that, but it looks like Adobe no longer allows you to licence outdated software. Is there any way to get around this?Failing that, is there a way to just export swfs from symbols in Animate 2024? So for example if I had a file that had 10 symbols in it on a layer, and I opened one symbol and exported a swf movie from inside that symbol, it would export that one symbol and not the other 9? Thanks for your help, I hope that makes sense!

kglad · Answer

create a back up fla that preserves everything

from a copy of that fla, delete everything but the needed symbol

export what you want.

(and, if you don't save the one symbol fla or you save with a different name, you don't even need the backup fla.)

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