FXG

Flex FXG graphics has several advantages over bitmap graphics, including: They are vector-based so they are relatively small in size and can be scaled without loss of fidelity (subject to some limitations; see below). Flex effects can be applied to provide for economical up/over/down/disabled state variations. By applying the changes through effects, the size reduction [...]

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Photoshop to Illustrator to Flex 4 FXG Workflow

by David Salahi on September 18, 2010

With the release of CS5 Adobe introduced the FXG graphics language, a notation for describing vector graphics in MXML. Three of the Creative Suite apps, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst and Fireworks, are capable of exporting to FXG which can then be used in Flex projects. Photoshop, being primarily a raster-based editor, doesn’t support FXG. However, Photoshop [...]

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