Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Bugger this for a bunch of bananas
If I have a graphically-intensive site to do (like the under-development site of "The 1000 Words Project") I'll do it in Photoshop then prepare it for web in Imageready - both great programs. Recently, however, I was pulled in to do the web preparation for a site designed in Freehand. Not difficult - just export from Freehand to Fireworks, slice it up and export to web - just like the Adobe workflow, but in Macromedia. Simple? I found out NOT.
Copy/paste from Freehand to Fireworks worked. Kinda. The buttons came out darker, and fuzzy. The point of intersection of a vector with a bitmap screwed up. Ungrouping and re-grouping buttons didn't work. *sigh* Otherwise everything was fine. It seems that since Freehand is for "print" and Fireworks is for "web" it's ok that the applications aren't really compatible with each other. (Adobe doesn't seem to have that problem...)
Luckily there's a nice guy called Ron Rockwell who's written a 4 page article called The Flow between Fireworks and Freehand which explains a bit of the differences between the programs. Hopefully I can finish the Natsure site now...
Copy/paste from Freehand to Fireworks worked. Kinda. The buttons came out darker, and fuzzy. The point of intersection of a vector with a bitmap screwed up. Ungrouping and re-grouping buttons didn't work. *sigh* Otherwise everything was fine. It seems that since Freehand is for "print" and Fireworks is for "web" it's ok that the applications aren't really compatible with each other. (Adobe doesn't seem to have that problem...)
Luckily there's a nice guy called Ron Rockwell who's written a 4 page article called The Flow between Fireworks and Freehand which explains a bit of the differences between the programs. Hopefully I can finish the Natsure site now...
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