Re: FLASH: Adobe vs Macromedia - Intriguing Point.

[Terry R. Schussler]

At 12:52 PM -0700 9/5/00, John Dowdell wrote:

>At 1:24 AM 9/2/0, Steve Minton wrote:

>> Hmm, I have just installed Illustrator 9...it claims that it can

>> export Flash files, which is technically incorrect as it is indeed

>> unable to do this. It is only able to export SWF files.

>

>Yes, you're right, they're usually missing the trademark info in their

>promotional materials, and they obfuscate the differences between FLA and

>SWF. (Matter of fact, I've been lectured that "all SWFs are Flash files"

>and other silly stuff.)

>

>SWF is a compact delivery format, and so it doesn't have the range of

>editing structures you'd find in the larger FLA format... that's why you

>can edit curves in imported SWFs but don't have the layers and such.


A reasonable analogy might be PNG and GIF - except that the proprietarisms

(this is a word? <g>) are reversed.


>

>Doublecheck the Illustrator product literature on their website... besides

>using the non-trademarked "Flash" as a selling point they also say that SVG

>is "a standard" that "does all that Flash can do" and other inanities. I'm

>glad their drawing program now exports SWF natively, but geez....


You wouldn't be referring to the _Macromedia_ Flash Writer, would you? ;-)


Regards,


Terry


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