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About copying artwork with the Clipboard

Elements copied to the Clipboard are anti-aliased, so they look as good in other applications as they do in Flash. This is particularly useful for frames that include a bitmap image, gradients, transparency, or a mask layer.

Graphics pasted from other Flash documents or programs are placed in the current frame of the current layer. How a graphic element is pasted into a Flash scene depends on the type of element it is, its source, and the preferences you have set:

| Text from a text editor becomes a single text object.
| Vector-based graphics from any drawing program become a group that can be ungrouped and edited like any other Flash element.
| Bitmaps become a single grouped object just like imported bitmaps. You can break apart pasted bitmaps or convert pasted bitmaps to vector graphics.
| For information on converting bitmaps to vector graphics, see Converting bitmaps to vector graphics.
| Note: Before pasting graphics from FreeHand into Flash, set your FreeHand export preferences to convert colors to CMYK and RGB for Clipboard formats.