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I've investigating many methods of importing graphics from other
packages into Flash. Most of the time the graphics work fine with
graphical elements, but are poor with text. For this I've tried
PNG, TIF, Cut-and-paste, and most other formats. The cut-and-paste
almost works, but there seems to be some graphical elements that
do not quite port from one package to another. The best format
I have found is Windows Meta Files (WMF). They are not supported
in some packages, but, luckily, Flash can import them. The following
FDDI graphic was imported from PowerPoint using a WMF file. It
works fairly well, especially in the display of the text elements
of the graphic:
So how did I draw the ring, with the break? Well if you look
at the following graphic with a coloured background you can see
that I just used two circles for the rings, and then I added to
white lines at the connections to the networks. Thus when viewed
against a white background, the ring looks as if it is broken.
For the break in the ring I've added a white rectangle.