Macromedia Leaving Designers in the Dust

Hello,

This has been bugging me since I bought the MX 2004 box set so I could use it
on my laptop when I went to school. I am a designer and do not do any coding
other then html.

First off Flash MX 2004 Pro Educational will not open Flash 2004 Pro files or
past Macromedia Flash files, so everything I have done is garbage. I am not
complaining that actionscript 2 is a programming language because I think it is
great but it is harder for people like myself to do cool things in flash.

Also with Dreamweaver they have made it more into a programmers tool then a
designers tool like it was in MX. I do not know a programmer that uses
Dreamweaver but every designer I know uses this.

Am I out of line on this or do people agree with me?

Thanks

First off Flash MX 2004 Pro Educational will not open Flash 2004 Pro files or
past Macromedia Flash files, so everything I have done is garbage.

Hi there. I don't believe this should be the case. If you are unable to open
files created in previous versions of Flash, I recommend that you contact
technical support. Flash MX 2004 (as well as Flash MX) files should be fully
compatible.

Christian

"kdc6794" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Also with Dreamweaver they have made it more into a programmers tool then
a
designers tool like it was in MX. I do not know a programmer that uses
Dreamweaver but every designer I know uses this.

Am I out of line on this or do people agree with me?

I write server-side code in DMX all the time. I think MM was compelled to
make DW a "programming tool" because that is the nature of where web sites
are going. We are beginning to see fewer and fewer sites that do not offer
features requiring database interactivity or some other need for server
scripting.

Am I out of line on this or do people agree with me?

A good web designer is equal parts visual designer and equal parts code
designer (among other things...;o). If you're just focused on one of the
two, then just use a tool specialized for that.

Flash is an animation tool and Flash is a complete IDE now. Hence the two
versions...one for the developer-centric and one for the animator-centric.

-Darrel

kdc6794 wrote:

Hello,

This has been bugging me since I bought the MX 2004 box set so I could use it
on my laptop when I went to school. I am a designer and do not do any coding
other then html.

First off Flash MX 2004 Pro Educational will not open Flash 2004 Pro files or
past Macromedia Flash files, so everything I have done is garbage. I am not
complaining that actionscript 2 is a programming language because I think it is
great but it is harder for people like myself to do cool things in flash.

Also with Dreamweaver they have made it more into a programmers tool then a
designers tool like it was in MX. I do not know a programmer that uses
Dreamweaver but every designer I know uses this.

Am I out of line on this or do people agree with me?

Thanks

I use flash mx2004 and it has managed to open any flash file I've tried

to open with it.

Kevin is talking about the educational version. There are other applications
where the educational version uses a format that is different from the
commercial one although I never had this problem before. Anyway, Kevin signs as
a graphic designer but is using the educational version...

I would be completely aghast if the educational version uses a different
file format than the commercial one, as this is not true with any of the
other Macromedia apps. Correct me if I am mistaken, please.

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"Joaquim Lopes" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Kevin is talking about the educational version. There are other
applications
where the educational version uses a format that is different from the
commercial one although I never had this problem before. Anyway, Kevin
signs as
a graphic designer but is using the educational version...

I use educational version and never had a problem opening MX files in MX
2004.

Murray *TMM* wrote:

I would be completely aghast if the educational version uses a different
file format than the commercial one, as this is not true with any of the
other Macromedia apps. Correct me if I am mistaken, please.

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
I use educational version and never had a problem opening MX files in MX
2004.

At home I use the comercial version of Flash, DW, FW, Director and FH but at
my school we have the educational version of the apps and I never had any
trouble exchanging files.

In article <ccjjgu$99k$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com>, forums@HAHAgreat-web-
sights.com says...

I would be completely aghast if the educational version uses a different
file format than the commercial one, as this is not true with any of the
other Macromedia apps. Correct me if I am mistaken, please.

You are not mistaken, Murray. The educational/full versions should be
identical in function and file/version support- this sounds like a case
for technical support:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/complimentary/main.cgi

HTH!

-Scott
Macromedia, Inc.