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. On March 8, 2011, Adobe Systems released the first version of an experimental

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( FLA files) to

converter, code named ''Wallaby''. It has been quickly superseded by various other Adobe tools.

Support

Adobe Wallaby supports almost half of all the functions in

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, such as, Gradients, Buttons, and Scenes. However, there are also some functions that it does not support, for example, ActionScript 1-3, and 3D transforms.

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References

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