Re: FLASH: pen tool

[John Dowdell]

At 3:37 PM 8/20/99, unique wrote:

> I think it is way-whacked that Macromedia failed to make this

> jumping back and forth between FL and FH easier, they way they

> have with DW/FW.


FreeHand is a general design tool, while Fireworks and Flash are

specialized delivery editors. This is also why you'll find more

art-creation tools in FreeHand... it's a general-purpose design

environment.


(Fireworks and Dreamweaver are tightly integrated because there's usually

an iterative process in creating the graphics and markup of a website.

Dreamweaver and Fireworks don't open each others' files, but you can use

both of these specialized delivery editors in tandem, on their respective

media elements.)


Are you in a situation where you created some complex art in FreeHand, such

as a map, and start to animate it, and then later decide that the towns

change in a way you can't edit in Flash? Or, what's a scenario where you'd

want to jump back to the general design tool from the specialized delivery

editor...?


jd






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