The new FlashType text-rendering engine delivers better antialiasing for more elegant text, similar to that of Adobe ClearType fonts are smooth even at small sizes and are easier to adjust. Plus, you can make animation using transparencies without having to cut out objects on the page.įlash 8.0 Professional adds new control over filters and effects while objects are on the stage. And the ability to copy filters from Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop is handy.

The new Object Drawing mode lets you group and overlap objects, as allowed by vector graphics apps such as Adobe Illustrator. There's more control over strokes and gradient fills, vital to making objects look three-dimensional. You can add shadows, blurs, colour adjustments, glows, and beveling at runtime. Flash 8.0 also expands the boundaries of runtime animation it caches vectors as bitmaps to reduce rendering time but retains vector data. Want to make a car fly in front of a city for your own Blade Runner knockoff? Support for 8-bit alpha-channel video within Flash 8.0 allows you to superimpose objects over existing content.

Flash 8.0 also provides tabbed file browsing in its Mac edition.įlash 8.0 Professional introduces a host of new animation features that make this a vital upgrade for Web animators itching for new toys. Flash 8.0 offers Script Assist, a visual interface to help newbies without much coding experience get up to speed on ActionScript. Unlike Flash MX 2004's myriad of mysterious ways to import video, version 8.0 reduces the process to an elegant dialog and a helpful wizard.

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