Re: FLASH: A rephrasing of the Tools question...

[Neil O' Rourke]

I have to jump in at this stage and ask... Am I the only flasher using

CorelDRAW????


I'm familiar with Illustrator and I find alot of features more advanced

than CorelDRAW but these are features I would rarely use. I'm using

Freehand in work but I haven't had a serious look at it yet since I only

started my latest job the other week. I find that CorelDRAW has the best

learning curve, the best tools, the best import and export options (has

been a lifesaver many a time!) and you can't complain when you get the

full suite of programs, CorelPhotopaint - A rival to Photoshop & PSP, I

only use it for making animated gifs and grabbing frames from avi's,

CorelTexture - Texture generation program, very advanced tools in this,

CorelTrace - Vectorizing software and it's the best and most

configurable I've come across, Then you've got the smaller bits like

OCRTrace and CorelSCAN. 


So it kicks Illustrators ass in my book, gimme a few weeks and I'll let

you know if it knocks Freehand about too! ;o)


Neil


John Dowdell wrote:

> 

> At 6:30 PM 2/9/99, schaik wrote:

> > That brings up a question, how can you avoid having to adjust

> > colors in Flash. I have a lot problems with the purple colors

> > imported from illustrator to Flash. Any ideas about thisone?

> 

> Yes. Illustrator only recently learned about screen colors. Until then it

> only worked with print colors. (That's RGB colors vs CMYK colors.)

> 

> Most .AI import/export filters work with the majority of Illustrator files,

> and so they assume a CMYK colorspace. That's why you're seeing the color

> shift.

> 

> FreeHand has been RGB for years, and also exports directly to SWF format.

> It avoids the Illustrator/CMYK problem. (Working in FreeHand also has the

> advantage that you can then send your curves to HTML, to multipage PDF, to

> Fireworks, to print, whatever... FreeHand's a good general design tool for

> varied output.)

> 

> One tip: If you're coming from Illustrator, definitely *do* use "Optimize

> Curves" in Flash. Examine the graphic manually to see whether it can be

> further simplified. Illustrator's output is for encapsulated PostScript

> files, and so it doesn't have the same concept of efficient download found

> in FreeHand and Flash.

> 

> For Scott's original question, a lot depends on what you want to do. I know

> that many here draw directly in Flash all the time, and (particularly with

> a tablet!) they get great results. If you're looking for precision

> technical drawing then I would definitely go with a precision drawing tool.

> So much depends on what you're trying to accomplish....

> 

> jd

> 

> John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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