Branden Hall writes about the problems that can arrise when dealing with bitmaps and images in Flash, and has a couple of solutions it might be worth looking into: Tiny Bitmaps - Big Problems
Ok, this is just vanity stuff, I don't have a vanity plate (if I did, it would probably be jdb something or the other), but I can have my fun with a vanity search.
How about my first name on Google? Google Search: jarle
Today I am no. 1 when searching "for pages written in any language", and no.3 when searching in just norwegian pages.
What is more surprising is that I am no.1 when searching for "jdb", no. 9 and 10 too. Mind you. (This may very well change, but thats how it is when I am writing this).
Yes, I know. I am childish :-D And it would probably not have been equally easy if my name was Dave, Mike or John
PixFont 2.0 made by the russian company Kgroup is a small TrueType Font to TrueType Pixel font converter. The application fixes the problem with the default smoothing of fonts in Flash.
Cresk reports that the program says its not a valid Win32 application on his Windows 2000 Professional machine, it seemed to work ok on my W2K machine. But the program seems a little tickelish about how it is run.
A partly disabled version of PixFont 2.0 is available for download from Kgroup, a full version will set you back US $29.
[UPDATE: Kgroup has removed the download because of legal problems. When and if the download will be available again is uncertain]
Its probably safer to link to these Goddesses of Flash, than to try to ignore them *g*. So thats what I decided to do.
Flash Goddess is a new web site dedicated to women working with Flash.
Ann-Marie Cheung wanted to highlight that this is not just a male business and the quest is on to "discover where all the Flash Goddesses are hiding. Of course anyone up on their Flash would have heard of Jessica Spiegel (Webstyles.net, We're-Here Forums) or Irene Chan (Eneri.net), but there must surely be more..."
I am not sure how I feel about gender spesific sites, but I agree that its neat to be able to see that its not just a male-only business. Ann-Marie has done a good job so far, and with your help she is sure to discover even more Flash talents (her e-mail is on the site).
[Via Flashmagazine.com]
In its rumors section, C|Net write that LiveMotion is going through rough times at Adobe.
Elsewhere in Silicon Valley, people are wondering what happened to Adobe's ambition to best Macromedia's Flash animation software with its own LiveMotion software.Rumors grinding through the mill suggest that ambition has clashed with reality in recent months, resulting in a major reorganization of the LiveMotion group, including deep layoffs.
I must say John Dowdell was gracious enough to just quote Adobe CEO Bruce Chitzen as saying "It's clear Macromedia has done a good job in creating a standard with Flash"
The whole quote from the C|Net article is as follows:
CEO Bruce Chizen admitted that LiveMotion hadn't lived up to expectations, and called it more of an add-on to Flash, rather than a replacement for it."It's clear Macromedia has done a good job in creating a standard with Flash," Chizen said in the call. "Am I happy about that? No. But I'm a pragmatist."
Its fairly obvious who has won the first rounds in the vector media war.
[Via JD on MX]
