RE: FLASH: SVG in Flash (5)?

[Marco Fusaro]

I would love to see Macromedia take the lead in the development of tools for

creating SVG. Right now Adobe seems to be in the forefront with Illustrator

9 being able to export SVG and from what I hear future versions of

LiveMotion will be able to export SVG animations as well. I saw a little of

it in a demo a couple of weeks ago. It looks like a great tool. Personally I

would rather use Flash, but I am very interested in the potential of the SVG

format. We are a ways away from really being able to use SVG on the web, but

Macromedia sure would do a lot to insure its success by giving future

versions of Flash the ability to export SVG animations.


Marco Fusaro



Well, Macromedia folks are on the W3C working group for the SVG 1.0 spec,

so there's measurable interest here. (We're not the reason SVG is so late,

though! ;-)


I haven't seen any published announcements about future version features,

but if SVG is important for people who use Flash, then it's naturally a

priority for the toolmakers too.


One thing I always ask in this thread is what you'd like to do with the

file format... this can help define what types of work would be useful to

prioritize. (For instance, I suspect that SVG as a file-exchange format

will be much more useful than as a playback format for the forseeable

future... this would get us away from the problems with proprietary

exchange formats like .AI files.)


If you'd care to drop a note saying what you hope to accomplish to

wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com

, then that would directly reach the development

team, thanks. (Following up here on the list is fine too, of course.)


jd






John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US


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