Re: FLASH: Tired of the patronizing

[Michael Dunn]

on 04.12.00 6.47a, Tom Green wrote:


> 

> When Adobe demo'd the product at FlashForward the one thing that really struck

> me about the presentation was their inability to articulate just where it fit

> in with the general scheme of things.


I think where LiveMotion is, at least right now, is pretty much where

InDesign is. That product didn't put QuarkXPress out of business, even

though some of its features (text control, native psd support) were amazing.

I went to a seminar on that product and it was exactly like the demo of

LiveMotion at FF2K - lots of ooh-ahh features that the crowd went gaga for,

but the general consensus was "Yeah, but I'm not switching... yet." One of

the things you have to give Adobe credit for is that it doesn't sit on it's

laurels. They dumped PageMaker after trying to get it to compete with Quark

(it's now a business application) and introduced InDesign. It saw the

tremendous appeal and potential in vector-based internet design and created

LiveMotion. 


Sorry to be long-winded... I think Adobe is maybe not hitting the nail on

the head every time, but at least they're trying. What if they came out with

a font creation program like Fontographer (which MM is no longer

supporting). Would you guys cry about that or hope it would stir MM into

bringing Fontographer back?

--

Michael Dunn



flasher is generously supported by...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Get the last 100 messages from the flasher list NOW

    http://www.chinwag.com/flasher/last100.shtml


 Flash books http://www.chinwag.com/flasher/books.shtml

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To unsubscribe or change your list settings go to

http://www.chinwag.com/flasher or email

helpchinwag [dot] com