elevenforty
April 19, 2005

Adobe to acquire Macromedia.
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MeMeMe
April 19, 2005

I think this could really bad news, the competition was good between them, there needs to be rivals,

But who knows the benefits may out way the costs.

Pete
April 19, 2005

There is an up side to this - No more GoLive! I think Freehand will be assimilated into Illustrator, Fans of Fireworks say goodbye and we'll see Flashpaper intergrated into PDF somehow.

If this goes through, which I'm sure it will, I wonder what Adobe will do with Breeze, Cold Fusion and Contribute?

Calme
April 19, 2005

freehand is going down, top work adobe ;)

guess time will tell more... but i think for sure the motion side of things out if the merge could be interesting..

MeMeMe
April 19, 2005

I hope the development of the programs doesn't slow and the price increase. (like i buy anyhow, but one day u never know)

elevenforty
April 19, 2005

YEAR 2015 STILL ROCKING FREEHAND MX

audiosex3000
April 19, 2005

Bye freehand. Good riddance I say, besides illustrator will always be the one for me.

Do you think that flash will stick around or even better how about updating that crazy program fontographer! What a headache.


Yes I'm aware that I will be copping alot of flak for this

matthewbuchanan
April 19, 2005

I can't fathom being a professional web developer without using Fireworks. A great shame if they scrap it.

ross
April 20, 2005

Yup fireworks for me too... Waaay more than just a compression tool ;)

I don't know how I could live without its vectorised pixel lovin', non-destructive wonderfulness...

I doubt adobe will kill it....

Barry
April 23, 2005

at risk of sounding pessimistic, this can only be bad news, product development wise.

but on the bright side, we currently have good working versions of all software, what say we make a pact not to upgrade for the next 5 years?

oh, and I'm not a fireworkser, but I do have to sit next to Ross - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE DON'T DITCH IT! PLEEEEEASE! :D