Adobe Live Effects are not supported 100%. Why?

Using FW CS3 for Web designs.
As most of you know, you can implement some Photoshop Live
Effects inside FW CS3 but not 100%.
I am curious why?
For example, in FW CS3, when I try to implement "Satin"
effect to a button, my preferences are limited compared to Photosop
version. In Photosop you can select a preset contour and you can
change the blend mode. But in FW you can only change angle,
distance, color, size and opacitiy.
And same thing goes for other effects. They don't have same
options, and they don't create same effect with PS CS3.
I am asking this because I used strictly FW for my Web
designs, but now I see that I can create much cooler buttons in PS
CS3, which is mainly a photo editor :/
Is there any way to make it 100% PS compatible?
Thanks.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:30:24 +0400, DeadManWalking
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Using FW CS3 for Web designs.
> As most of you know, you can implement some Photoshop
Live Effects
> inside FW
> CS3 but not 100%.
> I am curious why?
>
> For example, in FW CS3, when I try to implement "Satin"
effect to a
> button, my
> preferences are limited compared to Photosop version. In
Photosop you can
> select a preset contour and you can change the blend
mode. But in FW you
> can
> only change angle, distance, color, size and opacitiy.
>
> Is there any way to make it 100% PS compatible?
Based on the timing, I suspect that development of FW CS3 was
started
before Adobe and Macromedia merge. So the fact that they are
not 100%
compatible does not look surprizing to me. Probably it will
change in the
future. Take into account that PS and FW are rather big
projects, they
cannot be fully re-coded in a minute.
Ilya Razmanov
http://photoshop.msk.ru -
Photoshop plug-in filters

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    | Specifies a repository mirror site to use instead of a given repository. The repository that
    | this mirror serves has an ID that matches the mirrorOf element of this mirror. IDs are used
    | for inheritance and direct lookup purposes, and must be unique across the set of mirrors.
    |
    <mirror>
    <id>mirrorId</id>
    <mirrorOf>repositoryId</mirrorOf>
    <name>Human Readable Name for this Mirror.</name>
    <url>http://my.repository.com/repo/path</url>
    </mirror>
    -->
    </mirrors>
    <!-- profiles
    | This is a list of profiles which can be activated in a variety of ways, and which can modify
    | the build process. Profiles provided in the settings.xml are intended to provide local machine-
    | specific paths and repository locations which allow the build to work in the local environment.
    |
    | For example, if you have an integration testing plugin - like cactus - that needs to know where
    | your Tomcat instance is installed, you can provide a variable here such that the variable is
    | dereferenced during the build process to configure the cactus plugin.
    |
    | As noted above, profiles can be activated in a variety of ways. One way - the activeProfiles
    | section of this document (settings.xml) - will be discussed later. Another way essentially
    | relies on the detection of a system property, either matching a particular value for the property,
    | or merely testing its existence. Profiles can also be activated by JDK version prefix, where a
    | value of '1.4' might activate a profile when the build is executed on a JDK version of '1.4.2_07'.
    | Finally, the list of active profiles can be specified directly from the command line.
    |
    | NOTE: For profiles defined in the settings.xml, you are restricted to specifying only artifact
    | repositories, plugin repositories, and free-form properties to be used as configuration
    | variables for plugins in the POM.
    |
    |-->
    <profiles>
    <!-- profile
    | Specifies a set of introductions to the build process, to be activated using one or more of the
    | mechanisms described above. For inheritance purposes, and to activate profiles via <activatedProfiles/>
    | or the command line, profiles have to have an ID that is unique.
    |
    | An encouraged best practice for profile identification is to use a consistent naming convention
    | for profiles, such as 'env-dev', 'env-test', 'env-production', 'user-jdcasey', 'user-brett', etc.
    | This will make it more intuitive to understand what the set of introduced profiles is attempting
    | to accomplish, particularly when you only have a list of profile id's for debug.
    |
    | This profile example uses the JDK version to trigger activation, and provides a JDK-specific repo.
    <profile>
    <id>jdk-1.4</id>
    <activation>
    <jdk>1.4</jdk>
    </activation>
    <repositories>
    <repository>
    <id>jdk14</id>
    <name>Repository for JDK 1.4 builds</name>
    <url>http://www.myhost.com/maven/jdk14</url>
    <layout>default</layout>
    <snapshotPolicy>always</snapshotPolicy>
    </repository>
    </repositories>
    </profile>
    -->
    <!--
    | Here is another profile, activated by the system property 'target-env' with a value of 'dev',
    | which provides a specific path to the Tomcat instance. To use this, your plugin configuration
    | might hypothetically look like:
    |
    | ...
    | <plugin>
    | <groupId>org.myco.myplugins</groupId>
    | <artifactId>myplugin</artifactId>
    |
    | <configuration>
    | <tomcatLocation>${tomcatPath}</tomcatLocation>
    | </configuration>
    | </plugin>
    | ...
    |
    | NOTE: If you just wanted to inject this configuration whenever someone set 'target-env' to
    | anything, you could just leave off the <value/> inside the activation-property.
    |
    <profile>
    <id>env-dev</id>
    <activation>
    <property>
    <name>target-env</name>
    <value>dev</value>
    </property>
    </activation>
    <properties>
    <tomcatPath>/path/to/tomcat/instance</tomcatPath>
    </properties>
    </profile>
    -->
    </profiles>
    <!-- activeProfiles
    | List of profiles that are active for all builds.
    |
    <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>alwaysActiveProfile</activeProfile>
    <activeProfile>anotherAlwaysActiveProfile</activeProfile>
    </activeProfiles>
    -->
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