Mr. Flash Traveling Disk has enough storage flexibility to hold plenty of data. Just attach to any computer with a USB 2.0 port for a speedy download, no drivers required.
From concept to completion, Macromedia FreeHand and Macromedia Flash provide the solution for high-impact Web development. Conceive sites, create graphics, and design scenes in FreeHand with industry-leading creative tools, multi-layout capabilities, and blistering performance. Then effortlessly import into Flash to fuse vectors, bitmaps, motion, MP3 audio, form input, and interactivity for a high-impact Web experience.
Macromedia's Flash 5/FreeHand 9 Studio seamlessly integrates both old and new media by providing two excellent programs to manipulate and create art and animation for almost any medium. Flash delivers cutting-edge, high-impact Web design, while FreeHand provides multiple options for publishing enhanced graphics both on and offline.
This revolutionary package starts with Flash 5, Macromedia's award-winning Web content creation software, which has become the de facto standard for animation and dynamic interactive content online. It's difficult to go to any cutting-edge media site today and not encounter Flash animation behind all the magic.
Flash has a history of being the designer's favorite for creating innovative Web content, but Flash 5 goes above and beyond the call of duty by offering enhanced tools, options, and integration, which provide the user unparalleled license for creativity and expression. Bezier curves? Motion tweening? Perspective fields? No problem. Flash does it all and more.
One major reason why Flash is so attractive for Web publishing is its ability to reuse components through the object library, substantially minimizing the required file size for complex interfaces and animations. This is what provides Flash with its overwhelming power. Just as JPEG and GIF compression helped make graphics on the Web an economical and virtually necessary feature, Flash is helping to make animation ubiquitous online, even for the unfortunate masses still using low-speed analog modems.
Even existing Flash users will find the upgrade to Flash 5 beneficial. Almost every tool's options have been moved onto customizable palettes, which help consolidate and unify the many features of Flash. In addition, Flash 5 offers excellent integration with existing software, including FreeHand.
Macromedia FreeHand 9 manages to keep one leg in the print media generation while placing its other foot firmly in new media by offering Web publishing options right next to PostScript, Photoshop, and Flash exporting. In addition to that basic integration, you can also share object libraries between FreeHand and Flash, helping to truly unify print and Internet media.
All told, the Flash 5/FreeHand 9 Studio package seamlessly integrates both standard desktop publishing and print media with cutting-edge interactive Web trends and innovative animation techniques. Whether you're an existing print publisher trying to adopt new technologies, or a high-impact Web developer attempting to transform older print presentations into deliciously captivating new-media masterpieces, Flash 5 and FreeHand 9 will empower you to achieve new heights in presentation and innovation.
With Flash and FreeHand, Macromedia holds its place as the leader in today's Internet-centric multimedia field. Taking into account Macromedia's past record for anticipating new trends, it is safe to say that it will continue to lead the online dynamic content revolution and satisfy both designers and end users with fast and furious innovation. --Victor Andersen
This review refers to the Windows version of Flash 5/Freehand Studio.
From concept to completion, Macromedia FreeHand and Macromedia Flash provide the solution for high-impact Web development. Conceive sites, create graphics, and design scenes in FreeHand with industry-leading creative tools, multilayout capabilities, and blistering performance. Then effortlessly import into Flash to fuse vectors, bitmaps, motion, MP3 audio, form input, and interactivity for a high-impact Web experience.
Note: For this upgrade to install properly, FreeHand 7 or 8 and any previous version of Flash must already be installed on the same platform (Macintosh or Windows) as the upgrade.
Macromedia Flash 5 and Macromedia Generator 2 Developer Edition together offer the complete solution for designing and automating high-impact Web site graphics. Flash is a popular choice for producing high-impact, low-bandwidth Web experiences, and Generator is the data-driven solution for automating Web site graphics. Flash provides a broad range of design, assembly, and animation tools. Within the Flash user interface, Generator authoring extensions offer predefined objects like charts, tickers, tables, and lists--enabling you to design your site easily with data-driven graphics. Generator avoids costly static-content updates that require you to go into the authoring environment, make the updates, and push the pages live. When you modify content in your data source, the new information is reflected in your Flash Web site automatically, which drastically reduces maintenance time. Generator takes content, images, sounds, behaviors, and information that are stored in data sources, and uses variables to update a Web site automatically, and without additional engineering resources. Generator makes updates to your Web page when a user visits the Web site and requests personalized information, and when a change occurs to the database of information that's shown on your Web site. The flexible nature of Generator templates gives you the ability to customize the user's experience without having to recreate your graphics multiple times.
