Export images from flash

Question

First of all let my clarify that I am a flash noob, this is a freelance job I am doing for someone.

I have a flash files with symbols I need to export as PNG images, for some reason the exported images have different width and height than indicated in the flash file. After checking I found out that the new dimensions don't even keep the original ratio between height and width. This happens for several symbols at different sizes. What might be the reason for this?

I have also considered finding a way to take a snapshot from within flash of a slice in the flash movie, is that possible?

Understand that I cannot manually take the snapshots as I need this done on a very large quantity of symbols.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can export images through the export menu (assuming you have a version >= CS3).

Just go File>Export>Export Image and select your settings from there. It should autocrop to the current width/height of the graphic symbol if you have the symbol selected.