FLASH: Re: benefits of Freehand

[Daniel Brown]

> The key benefit is that multiple pages and multiple exports give you great

> speed and flexibility in general design. You don't need to tweak the final

> deliverable files until late in the design process.

> 

> 

> It's great that Illustrator 9 is following the example of FreeHand 7

> here... I was a bit concerned last year when they were denying and ignoring

> the SWF format*, but am glad they added the FlashWriter features to their

> new release themselves. FreeHand 9 gives Adobe a lot more, ah,

> "inspiration" to catch up on in future releases. ;-)


Yeah... FlashWriter needed to be done right.


As for multiple pages, nested layers (or layers in general) does basically

the same thing. In fact, in those cases, you can view content on top of

content rather than spread across multiple pages.


Check out our REAL transparency options. Sounds like both companies always

have some catching up to do.



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