RE: FLASH: Flash3, Toy or serious designer tool?

[John Dowdell]

At 1:07 PM 10/28/98, Jean Dukate wrote:

> I haven't seen any application at all that can render a complex

> model into a shaded vector image. Has anyone else find such a program?


Adobe Dimensions renders out as PostScript. Unfortunately for our purposes,

it shades by blending, rather than by gradient.


(iow, its output is optimized for printers, rather than for fast delivery.)



Sidnotes:

   The Mesh Gradient Tool of Illustrator 8, mentioned previously in this

thread, uses a different mechanism for that "look" than do the blended

gradients of FreeHand 7. Mesh gradients are imaged via PostScript 3, and

must be converted to JPEG for translation into other tools.

   While Fireworks does use vectors for editing, it procedurally renders

out parameter-based brushstrokes onto these vectors. The increased

calculation costs per pixel mean that Fireworks cannot render as quickly as

Flash can... it's better-suited to designtime rendering than runtime

rendering.


jd




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