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Supported features for SWF export


    When creating compositions intended for the SWF format, note the following:

    Layers

    Only Normal mode is supported. Track Mattes, 3D Layers, 3D Cameras, and 3D Lights are unsupported. The following layer switches are unsupported: Preserve Transparency, Adjustment Layer, Collapse Transformations, and Motion Blur.

    Masks

    Only Add mode and Difference mode are supported. If multiple masks are applied to a layer, they must all have the same mode to be supported. Partial Opacity and the mask Inverted option are supported only if Add mode is specified. Nonzero Mask feathers are unsupported.

    Effects

    Path Text is the only supported effect. Several Path Text options are unsupported, including Composite on Original, Fill and Stroke/Options/Fill Over Stroke, and Advanced/Mode/Difference. Multiple effects per layer are unsupported.

    Adobe Illustrator files

    Only stroked paths and filled paths in CMYK or RGB color spaces are supported. Note that if Rasterize is selected for Unsupported Features, unsupported elements in an Illustrator file will result in the rasterization of only the layer to which the Illustrator file is source, not the entire composition frame.

    The source for each layer in the composition is rendered and added to the SWF file as a JPEG-compressed bitmap, unless the layer is a solid or its source is an Adobe Illustrator file. If the layer source is an Illustrator file, the source is automatically converted to the corresponding native SWF elements. The Collapse Transformations option for nested compositions is not supported--the composition used as source for a layer in the exported composition will be rendered and added to the SWF file as a JPEG-compressed bitmap.