Re: FLASH: pen tool, including OT re: FreeHand

[unique]

> 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...?


John,


Thanks for your reply.


To make myself clear: I personally have no problem here ... I'm not wanting

to take FreeHand graphics out of Flash and back into FreeHand. And I can bop

back and forth between FreeHand and Flash, easily, as I have Command-Tab

(and Command-Shift-Tab) programmed to jump forward and backward through the

programs that are open; and, secondarily, GoMac lets me just click a button

at the bottom of the screen (as in Windows) to jump to a different program.

Mac owners without these have to click and drag in the upper right corner of

the screen to switch programs ...


When I said "way-whacked", I guess I was more generally referring to my

impression of a partial failure in MM's marketting strategy. Especially when

you were bundling FreeHand 8 and Flash 3, I think you could have sold a lot

more bundles had you promoted the potential interactivity between the two --

copying and pasting (with proper preferences settings), creating easy Flash

animations in FreeHand with the Blending and Release to Layers features,

etc.


Just my opinion ...


John, while I have your attention, hopefully the list members will excuse a

further off-topic FreeHand question ... I'm desperate! I've had a Q

lingering on macromedia.freehand for a week now with no answer, and a

different thread there presents the same problem, with no answer either.


Running FreeHand 8.01 or 8.01b, on a Mac, with a Dvorak keyboard layout,

NONE of the Command Keys work (except A and M, the two keys that are in the

same place on both keyboards). I'd hate to have to start my free tech

support for what seems to be a common bug. Can you help? Trashing

preferences files doesn't help, though at one time months ago (running an

earlier System version), it did. And I know at least one person who

*doesn't* have this problem. Go figure.


Thanks to the list for indulging me here.


Ken Sherwood


kensherwood.com

http://www.kensherwood.com

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