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Ian Jones
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the end of freehand!  |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:37 am |
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I echo bob's sentiments, although my mind swoons when I think about some of the cross-application abilities that will come with this.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:53 am |
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man, 3.4 million doesn't seem like much for Macromedia, when you consider how widely their standard is deployed.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:16 am |
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...BILLION...
"in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. "
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:31 am |
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haha, okay, that makes more sense.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:39 pm |
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Does this mean soaring prices for graphic applications?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:51 am |
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new flash cs2
* create more sophisticated real time lens flares
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:35 pm |
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| pxy wrote: |
new flash cs2
* create more sophisticated real time lens flares |
Wow, the world of Adobe has sure sucked in media design all to itself... It would be interesting to see the new software... |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:38 am |
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Forgive my ignorange, but what's freehand anyway? Some Macromedia equivelant to PS?
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:19 pm |
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yes Freehand and Illustrator have been slogging it out for decades  |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:40 pm |
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| B0b wrote: |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the end of freehand! |
Who cares about freehand when there is inkscape
http://www.inkscape.org/ - Only 1 more update and it will actually outdo freehand I think. I have a friend working on it atm.
oh yeah its OPEN SOURCE! |
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