[thelist] Macromedia vs. Adobe

[Erika Meyer]

Okay, not going to worry about Debabelizer.

On to the next issue.  Macromedia vs. Adobe.  At home I've found that 
I can't hardly do what I want to do unless I have Illustrator and 
Photoshop.

With Photoshop 5.5/Imageready, I don't feel such a need to use 
Fireworks to export gifs.  So if I want to do vector art, I use 
Illustrator, because I can't seem to import Freehand files into 
Photoshop.  Unless I run them thru Fireworks first.

Jeez.  I could have said that better but...

Now assuming I want to use FLASH down the road... and I want to work 
with both vector and bitmap graphics...

Do I need FREEHAND and FIREWORKS and FLASH and ILLUSTRATOR and 
PHOTOSHOP and IMAGEREADY?

And out of curiosity... which company is more evil, Macromedia or 
Adobe?  Which one comes up with the cool ideas first, and which one 
is the copycat?  Or is this question as complicated as the 
compatibility question?

There must be an easier way.

Erika

(wants a Mac and a PC and Adobe and Macromedia and Cold Fusion Studio 
and BBEdit...yikes! this is getting expensive...)

Meyer