[thelist] Illustrator 9 vs. Flash [was: Macromedia vs. Adobe]

[Erik Mattheis]

>There's an article in this month's (Nov. 2000) Web Techniques about
Illustrator vs. Freehand. I thought it was really interesting. I've always

Yeah, every similar article I've read has made me think the same 
thing, yet I stick with Illustrator  ... the fact that Illustrator 9 
supports transparency is a big vote to just upgrade to Ill 9 ... but 
questions:

In Ill 8, the "Transform" pallet  uses the center point of the 
bounding box as the X and Y coordinates ... this is way frustrating 
for me, not only because I'm so average and typical that I think of 
upper left hand corners as 0,0, but also because Info pallet tells 
you the X and Y of the object ARE the upper left hand corner ... Can 
you change this in Ill 9 - make it use the NW corner? Can you elicit 
a big groan from me and tell me how to do it in Ill 8?

Does Ill 9 export as SWFs better than 8 with the plug-in ... like 
does it retain thing you do to type without breaking it up into 
characters ... does Freehand? How about pasting from Flash to 
Illustrator 9 ... does it come through as paths or pictures? How 
about Freehand? Transparency between the Ill and Flash? Someone give 
us the low down if you can.

Dunno, maybe Flash 5 will render both incidental for me ... sure does 
look pretty though ... enough beauty to fill up three or four 
monitors ... let's see some more tabbed windows, ha.

PS. Someone asked John Macromedia to use the word "Monopoly", which I 
don't think he did, so I will: I am all for MM having a monopoly on 
web vector graphics ... I loathe the day when it will become 
necessary to think about making SWFs work everywhere ...

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