Flash 8 “enhanced stroke” bug
I’ve encountered an irritating bug in Flash 8 that it turns out others find annoying, too. Vector artwork exported from Adobe Illustrator CS2 can’t be published to anything earlier than Flash Player 8. There may be some types that work, but the file I exported was very simple — nothing beyond paths with strokes and fills.
Adobe’s TechNote offers a work-around, but I couldn’t get it to work.
The answer came from KevinLuck.com — save the file as a Flash MX 2004 file, then open it with Flash 8. No more problems publishing to Flash Player 6 or 7.
Be careful when doing this, though; I found I had to manually edit some lines, and they’re less precise than the “enhanced stroke” that Flash 8 offers.
