RE: FLASH: Fireworks to Flash (SOME THOUGHTS)

[John Dowdell]

At 6:42 PM 3/21/0, Daniel Brown, Adobe Corporate Evangelist, wrote:

> Thanks Lynn. We are trying to help people create some of what

> they're already doing in Fireworks AND have the ability to

> output vector-based files to .SWF in one application.


Hmm. From this it almost sounds like you're not aware that Fireworks

already exports SWF animations, as either vectors or pixels.  But I'd find

it difficult to believe you're not aware of this, particularly since we've

already discussed this in the thread you're replying to.


Maybe you meant to write something else instead...? I can't tell, the

pieces don't quite fit together.




> Part of the problem here is that, since the native Illustrator format

> is our own, it would be tricky for them to anticipate changes we

> might make to the file format. Here, you're right, we have a bit of

> an edge with LiveMotion (it can read native, layered, Photoshop and

> Illustrator files and then animate the layers, and maintain

> editability - "Round-tripping" the files, so to speak.)


[sigh]  If you believed that Adobe writing new .AI formats was such a

barrier, by the same logic you wouldn't even have added SWF export to

ImageStyler 2.0, much less had the leak campaign to bill it as "more than a

Flash-killer". There's no logic there.


And of course what you describe is not "Roundtrip Graphics"... how do you

get an ImageStyler 2.0 file back into the tool for vectors, or the tool for

pixels? "Round Trip" implies two-way transit.

   (And this term "Roundtrip Graphics" was introduced back in Fireworks 2,

for how you can edit graphics from within Dreamweaver, automatically using

*the original source file* and *passing back resizing info*. Yet this older

work was the highlight of Adobe's Seybold demo, for some future version of

GoLive....)  [/sigh]



No matter how many ways I try to look at some of these posts, it's still

hard to find ways to make sense of them. Sometimes I just can't guess the

point that's trying to be made.


jd







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