Re: FLASH: My wishlist

[Marco Alvarado]

Hey Franke,


Try Freehand. It's like illustrator only better in my opinion. Then you can 

export your freehand files as swf movies that can be imported to your fla 

movie. Download it and give a whirl for free.


http://www.macromedia.com/software/freehand/


Cheers from Clemson


-marco

marcoaclemson [dot] edu

At 02:23 PM 10/9/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Questions for flashers: Opinions welcome!

>

>I'm having fun with flash but I wish they had incorporated certain features

>that are common in other programs, such as:

>

>One of the elegant virtues of flash is that it is vector based. Why does

>Flash not have a pen tool that is as sophisticated as Adobe Illustrator? The

>pencil does not produce as beautiful a line, and bringing the Illustrator

>files in is not as good as creating the graphics in Flash. I want bezier

>curves and handles.

>

>Wouldn't it be nice to be able to crop the flash file as easily as you crop

>an image in Photoshop -- eg. position the file (and all the layers) in the

>center, or over to one side -- as I understand Flash, you can only crop from

>the left and lower edge.

>

>Comments?

>

>Franke





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