Re: FLASH: OT: FH9 vs AI9 (was: Curved text)

[Maxx]

From:

jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com

 (John Dowdell)


>At 7:33 AM 7/14/0, maxx wrote:

> ...the fun anti-Adobe stories probably make Macromedia very very

> happy. Not that they already don't laugh at Adobe behind their

> back, albeit it's well-deserved. Feh, by now, it's probably to

> their face...;>


>Actually, folks here feel concern for those poor humans still 

>trapped

>there... I just hope they don't actually announce GoLive 6 this 

>month,

>they've got to ship the 5.0 first.... ;-)


The guy who taught me Cyberstudio, replete with all sorts of 

terrible comments about DW (well, it was 1.2 that I was in fact 

using...he wasn't far off, but I felt sad)...well, this dude ended up 

working on your Flash team and immediately changed his tune 

about MM, actually it was really just crappy comments about 

Adobe. Fueled by my still burning ire about Illustrator 7, I was 

happy to agree.


>They're more and more different from each other these days... 

>Illustrator

>and Fireworks share some of the same space, and FreeHand 

>and InDesign share

>some of the same space. The latter two offer multipage 

>graphics-intensive

>design. The former render pixel effects and work on 

>smaller-scale drawings.


>FreeHand is a general graphics-intensive design tool... quick to 

>comp out a

>Flash storyboard, to print out for client approval, to generate 

>HTML for

>rough page layouts... very, very fast, even on complex designs. 

>Illustrator

>doesn't attempt this kind of work.


Please, ID doesn't hold a candle. At least one can RIP a FH doc or 

at least get it to QXP which will happily. Most prepress people I 

know threatened with an ID doc have too many problems just 

getting a doc to print let alone RIP without PDF help.


BTW, kudos to you guys for getting PDF to work better in FH than 

AI. I don't understand how Adobe manages to screw up even their 

own product.  AI tends to mangle docs, particularly oversize and 

11x17 items. We've had nothing but trouble opening these in AI, 

but FH 8 and 9 has always come through.


At 6:57 AM 7/14/0, maxx wrote:

>> has anyone tried blending along the new perspective grid

>> and then making .swfs?


>ja, you betcha, woiks great!  :D


You're beautiful. And I'm not saying these things with kneepads on.


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