Are there any free tools to create SWF / Flash animations?
2danimationflash
Are there any competitor tools like Flash for creating SWF animations? My 8 year old son wants to learn 2D animation but I doubt his anticipated attention span warrants buying Flash.
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There's a short video tutorial on using InkScape and SWFTools to make an animation here:
The size is the cost of the Flex API. You don't get to pick and choose which parts are compiled in, so the best case is going to still carry a lot of baggage.
If size is a big worry, you can get away with using only the flash side of ActionScript, but you lose out on a lot of the nice prebuilt Flex components.
Convert your ppts into pdfs. And then use swftools for converting pdf (using openoffice, you can use uno bridge, which is available in C, C++, python, java, for automating the whole pdf conversion)) into swf. Its an open source library and it is damn good.
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There's a short video tutorial on using InkScape and SWFTools to make an animation here:
http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-031/
Alternately, you could look into the (now discontinued) PowerBullet which has a PowerPoint-like interface.