Re: TAN: Shockwave Tools...

[David Mendels]

I believe there is a technote on Shockwave for FreeHand vs. Flash, but the

gist is this:


Shockwave for FreeHand is no longer being developed or promoted.  Flash is

the preferred standard for vectors on the Web....we put a good deal of work

into adding Flash support to FreeHand 8, and think this is the future.  Now

that the file format is open, we exepct new tools to also start supporting

the Flash file format--so far, Broderbund (Maker of PrintShop) and

Equilibrium (they make Debabelizer) and Avenza (they make a

FreeHand/Illustrator set of Xtras for cartography are are leaders in

desktop mapping tools) have already annouced intentions to add support for

the Flash format to their tools or create new tools th output the Flash

format.  We are talking to lots of other tool venders as well.


Regards,


David

Macromedia



At 01:47 AM 4/16/98 -0400, James Steincamp wrote:

>Today i purchased the design in motion suite and spent a few hours reading

>up on Shockwave and Flash around the Web. There is, however, more to

>Shockwave than i had previously imagined and what i thought was pretty much

>a Director/Flash format is now complicated (at least in my mind) by the

>fact that there are also Freehand plug-ins, RealFlash content and

>Authorware files.

>

>Why would someone want create content for the Freehand plug-in (presumably

>with Freehand) as opposed to relying strictly on Flash? Do i have to have a

>RealPlayer server to serve up audio files?

>

>Is there a concise FAQ or page to help me get a handle on how to best

>leverage the different Shockwave plug-ins/tools according to situation? The

>Freehand plug-in is what has me most puzzled...

>

>Any pointers appreciated...

>

>-james

>

>

>Grafika Design

>Richmond, VA

>

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