Flash MX 2004 7.0

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• Price: Free to try $499.00 to buy
• Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: September 10, 2003
• Total Downloads: 4,058,287
• Downloads last week: 11,272
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Flash remains the champ of professional vector software for the Web. However, creating Web pages, interactive games, and videos in Flash CS3 is no one-two punch; the complexity remains a barrier for new learners.

Most notable in this version of Flash is its improved integration with the other Adobe products. You can now save time by importing layers from Photoshop and Illustrator files, so there's no need to convert and name one layer at a time. The customizable interface lets you choose where to dock the time line and other panels, and you can drag features to the toolbar.

Prebuilt components such as buttons can be dragged directly onto the stage, then customized. If you are drawing from scratch, Flash adds tools that include an Illustrator-style Pen as well as Shape Primitives for making shape alterations on the stage. New filters and blends add more creative options.

Everything about CS3 is faster than in CS2, from the compiler to the player, including the new Java-based compiler and debugger. Rather than fishing through your work to find errors, click on a trouble spot in the Compile Errors panel to go straight to the problematic code.

Nevertheless, Flash isn't perfect--particularly with some fine details. It's still hard to zoom into the center of the stage. We'd like more control over brush strokes, too. This upgrade will be worthwhile for professionals who work with the other Creative Suite applications, but the learning curve and cost should not be underestimated.

Publisher's description

Already a powerful tool for creating rich Internet content, Flash has evolved into a robust environment for developing online advertising, electronic learning courses, user interfaces for enterprise applications, and multimedia content. With animation and vector graphic tools, Flash includes video support for MPEG, digital video, MOV, and AVI formats. You can edit, manipulate, and animate video objects or use scripting to make your videos interactive. Flash now has significant new capabilities, thanks to the new JavaScript API extensibility architecture. Create charts and graphs, animate text effects, deploy high-resolution interactive bitmaps, add raster effects, and design 3D graphics, all without leaving Macromedia Flash. You'll also be able to integrate rich-media content faster with direct support for PDF and EPS (Adobe Illustrator 10) files. Import files into the Macromedia Flash interface and map them with a variety of settings.

In addition, Flash includes new productivity features for improving your work flow such as a built-in spelling checker, search and replace, a deployment kit, and reusable publish settings. Create macros with the new history panel and with custom commands. Ensure consistent text formatting between Macromedia Flash and HTML content with cascading style sheets.

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