If you’ve used Adobe creative suite/creative cloud programs for any length of time, you know they have some big quirks. One of the things that as always irked me was how difficult it is to get Flash vectors into Illustrator, even though the other way is as easy as copy/paste.
Flash CC 2014 added a new “export to SVG” option, which is great – Illustrator natively supports SVG! However, in my experience, Illustrator often crashes when opening said SVG file. In order to not crash Illustrator, here are some instructions (I’m using the CC 2014 versions of both Flash and Illustrator):
- Copy and paste the symbol you’re exporting into a new FLA (this removes unused symbols).
- go into every symbol in the library and delete all empty/hidden/guide/code layers.
- go to file > export image and choose SVG.
- open the SVG file in Illustrator – everything should be there!
I found the workaround here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1573625