Exporting from Flash to Illustrator

[luckychuck]

I upgraded from Flash CS3 to CS5. I am surprised to find I cannot export Flash graphics to a ".ai"  format.

Does anyone know of a way in CS5 to get Flash vectors to Illustrator?

Thanks,

Chuck

[RobM-PBS]

@Siwax That's interesting and maybe a little disheartening. Thank you for the fast reply.

[Siwax]

I am curious. If you try with a brand new session tell me if it works !

[Siwax]

By the way I use Mac OS X Yosemite.

[Siwax]

I had previous versions of Creative Cloud on my computer, even Adobe Master CS5.

I had to manually delete a lot of files from a list that the technical support gave to me.

And a clean install of course.

But it was not working on my admin session, only other session.

So I had to make more maintenance.

I could give you a few links if you like, but please contact Adobe support on the website (by chat - super fast), it is safer....

Also, try with a new session, at least if it works you could export right now your svg.

[RobM-PBS]

I've had issue after issue with exporting SVG. It's been a thorn in my side since they dropped export to AI. What a pain. I will post an update if I have time to go through support.

[Siwax]

Hey, without contacting support you could try right now to export SVG on a new session. Who knows ?

And don't forget at least to download the last version of Flash.

Got to go . See you.

[Ned_Thompson]

I am also having the same issue. I'm using Flash Pro CC 2015. When I restart the computer and start it up again, I try making a square shape and export it as SVG. It works fine. But when I try exporting something that has lots of folders, I get the error. And any exporting doesn't working from then on, even if it's just a shape. I could use some help!

[pengd34439428]

I use this online tool http://iiistudio.com/convert2svg/

Direct download link for this flash application iiistudio.com/convert2svg/sPjI.swf

It works the best and save the result in SVG format you can directly open with Adobe Illustrator, and it's made in flash application. You can download the swf file and it could work locally without server backend anyway as I guessed it has php or js!

As I tried to import the swf file I exported from Toon Boom Harmony to Adobe Flash, it's into the stage but the vector curves are zig-zagged not what I want. And I also tried print the swf to PDF with variety of virtual PDF printer such as Foxit PDF printer, PDF Factory Pro and the results is bad as well, not the original shapes at all.

results are so different in PDF, Flash and swf2svg:

[notVeryPleasedAtAll]

I see I'm in good company.  I have an FX workflow which relies on being able to export ai sequences from Flash, because I bring them into Maya as nurbs curves, and up to this point the only vector file format that bridged the gap between Flash and Maya is an AI file.  Now there's no AI export option, and to the best of my knowledge, no third party plugin that works with Animate CC. 

Is there anoyone out there in the community who knows how to export an AI sequence from flash (Animate)?  Or am I SOL?  Many thanks.