Is there a way to save out/export vector art from Flash CC to open as vector art in Illustrator CC?

[JamesRoberts_Designer]

Is there a way to save out/export vector art from Flash CC to open as vector art in Illustrator CC?

[hearsnobrain]

SortOfSmart wrote:

At our workplace, we were frustrated with Flash CC but we figured out Adobe still lets Creative Cloud subscribers download CS6.

Log in and then go here:
https://creative.adobe.com/products/flash

Then look for the dropdown under the header "In This Version" and switch the dropdown to CS6.

CS6 exports to fxg, among other things prior to useful artists' features being scrapped or re-made to an alpha state.

This is the answer right here. Thank you very much SortOfSmart!

Download Flash Professional CS6 as he/she described. It is free for CC subscribers and does not interfere with Flash Professional CC.

[gataviano]

There was a response in July that this was going to be implemented. It's now October 🙂

[John_R_Nyquist]

@gataviano - Not only was the response in July, but it said "we are looking into Flash-Illustrator workflows for the next update and we will have a vector export from Flash which could be imported into Adobe Illustrator." We've had an update since that post and it did not include any such functionality.

[gataviano]

Yeah, I was pretty sure there had been updates since then as well. Would be great if it was rolled out soon. I guess we're at Adobe's discretion 🙂

[flok-design]

Ive found how to import vector art from Flash CS6 to Illustrator CC

Simpley -

In Flash:

File/Print/

Save your art as .pdf

Open in Illustrator

[Asymetrical]

Oh man, you had me all excited there for a second idomart! That would a genius solution if Adobe hadn't taken Print OUT of Flash. It's kinda like they're doing it on purpose.

[Alesclandre]

CS6 is not a problem : you can export as image and then select FXG. It works very well.

CC IS a real problem : there is absolutely no export to a vector format.

[mm_art_director]

you can export Flash artwork out as a PDF and import into Illustrator. Look up printing from flash specfically Joshua Davis as he creates complex illustrations from Flash and exports them into Illustrator by way of print to postscipt.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5112509/swf-to-illustrator-friendly-format-vector

it can still be done in Flash CC but you need to find the right print driver.

[JamesRoberts_Designer]

Mimi,

Not hard at all.

Jim Roberts

Designer

[mopkamopka]

So, it's now January 2014, I see that is nowhere near to be solved?!

How come it is even possible that nothing has changed?

To give a good example, imagine a small studio is making animated series in flash, and then it needs to print out dvd's covers, posters and a lot of merchandise with the characters of the show. And that is vital for the studio to make it on the market, to be able to deliver the product to the client and so on. Thanks to Adobe here it turns out it's completely impossible. The only solution is to trace everything manually dot by dot in Illustrator, which consumes an inmense amount of time and effort.

So you would have to loose money, time, people's resources because of that.

This is an act of an awful disrespect for the clients who pay a considerable amount of money for the product. Moreover, not doing anything for over six month after the issue's been reported, how can it even be serious?

[mm_art_director]

you can save flash files out as .fxg format and import them into illustrator. another alternative although I admit doesnt utilise CC is to open up an older version of Flash CS4-ish and export out to pdf and then again import thru illustrator. I have  used both methods and have no issues to report.

there have been a long line of questions on how to do this flash to illustrator art questions and has been covered numerous times throughout the forums. If nothing else please look up Joshua Davis, Brendan Dawes and the ground breaking work they contributed to the Flash community on how to do just this type of thing.

I'm sorry you were not satisfied with a proper walk through hand held answer.

[mopkamopka]

hi, yes you can save a .fxg in the older flash versions, but this option is removed completely form CC, that's the main issue over here.

[mm_art_director]

yes but as noted above they can still d/l CS6 free of charge with no issues

while also running CC and use that method. I do recall seeing a script for

CC exporting out of FL. looking for it now again

TY

[mopkamopka]

yeah, I rolled back to flash sc6 and a script is good and all, but this is a feature that should be something that's built it, not something you have to invent yourself. Especially when it's was already there in the earlier versions.

I mean fighting with additional scripts or writing parts of the software by yourself doesn't seem a good way of dealing with such simple tasks to me. Again, remembering, that it was a basic feature in the earlier versions.

[Alesclandre]

This is not the question. It seems there are ways to do this, but these are not simple ways. If you've been working on Flash CC for several months, it is a mess to export to Illustrator.

What we do expect is a vector export from Flash CC. If we have to stick to Flash CC, there HAS to be this export feature.

The answer from sudeshna sarkar marked as "correct" and saying they're working on it is dated july 31st...

[mm_art_director]

I agree Adobe should have kept the feature. but not wanting to simply

revert to a slightly older version to get your result seems well childish

if you have to get it done. As I mentioned here is an AIR app that will run

the swf to svg format for you to then open in Illustrator. As someone who

quite frequently builds generative art work and exports from FL CS6 to

Illustrator CC I have had no issues. here is the link:

There is a handy GIthub project called

SWF2SVG:<https://github.com/flying-sheep/SWF2SVG>

https://github.com/flying-sheep/SWF2SVG

[dharmk]

The new Flash CC 2014 release now supports export to SVG. Find more details @ https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/using/whats-new.html#Exporting%20to%20SVG%20format

-Dharmendra

[J Yas]

This is a nice addition. Brilliant and thank you

[Alesclandre]

Great ! Nice improvements in the last version, at last !

[J Yas]

Im trying to look at this workflow and came across this here http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/customer-success/pdfs/zgm-cups-case-study.pdf

in the description on their workflow, they talk about it here "The agency’s Adobe Creative Cloud for teams membership gave all employees access to the full range of creative tools and services by Adobe. The team used Adobe Flash Professional CC to illustrate the site, and then took the drawings into Adobe Illustrator CC and converted them to EPS files. Adobe Photoshop CC was used for shading before taking the files into Adobe Edge Animate CC for animation."