FC - Open source, MXP's, Adobe Bridge?

1) is FC going to be Open source (ever)?
2) Any tech to write MXP's and extentions in standart Adobe way or Eclipse one?
3) Will thare be any connection to bridge?
4) BTW any way to run 2 FC's at the same tyme with different work spaces?
Sory for my EN

Check after reseting the preferences of the bridge ,
Start Adobe Bridge and immediately press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) until the Reset Settings dialog box appear or press the Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) and then luanch bridge.
Select all three options--Reset Preferences, Reset Standard Workspaces, and Purge Entire Thumbnail Cache--and then click OK
Also check in the new user account does it work for you

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Open Source equivalent to Adobe Illustrator?

What is the best Open Source equivalent to Adobe Illustrator?
(or closest equivalent)
This may be a matter of personal preference but could anyone share their thoughts or opinions?
Thank you,

I took Inkscape for a test drive in order to compare it to Adobe Illustrator. Here are my comments I would like to share with this newsgroup. Generally and professionally, I prefer Adobe Illustrator over Inkscape because Illustrator is a more responsive program - faster during some key drawing procedures, however Inkscape should not be ignored as it is available for no cost and is very capable and sufficient as a drawing tool. I was impressed with Inkscape - except for its typesetting features, its lack of being able to use spot colours and its limited PDF export options.
I hardly touched all the Inkscape features in this review - only a few main features which seemed to work sufficiently.
This review is written for someone looking for a vector drawing program to learn and use who may not have a lot of experience with a professional drawings programs such as Adobe Illustrator and who may be looking for a no-cost alternative that is sufficiently acceptable.
Inkscape 0.46
www.inkscape.org
Review by Mike
platform: mac computer on OS 10.4
March 2009
Generally, a very capable and extremely useful program - especially considering there is no cost. Under the "Help" menu, is a link to the online manual which you can download too - but I just read that parts I needed online.
I found the info I was looking for a few days ago when I first tried the program. Initially, I couldn't find a way to convert a point from a smooth point to a corner point. I found this feature in the menu bar. When you use the "edit path my node" tool (second tool in the tool box) you can make this choice (corner or smooth point) from a row of icons along the top of the document window - very obvious but I didn't see that at first. Its a good feature to know to manipulate your shapes to exactly as you would like. With this ability, you can choose to convert your point to a corner point or a smooth point - important to being able to draw any shape you like.
You can also adjust the bezier curve angle on the fly (while you draw) (see last point [1] at the end of this review) by holding down the shift key or the control key but that would depend on how much users would want to practice this program. The main thing is, that it can be done - just like in Illustrator. Illustrator users would just have to remember a few different key stroke patterns while drawing.
Doesn't seem to be much this program can't do, except for spot colour capability. Compared to Illustrator, I would be curious to know if there was anything critical you can do in Illustrator that you cannot do in Inkscape. Typesetting in Inkscape isn't so great but generally the program is sufficient.
Here are four main points:
1. Inkscape doesn't have spot colour capability
This is probably the biggest disadvantage of Inkscape for professionals. For commercial artists, printing spot colour is a critical capability which enables such things as specifying a pantone colour to a printer. However, for web pages and CMYK artwork, Inkscape is sufficient because web page art is all RGB in colour (no spot colours are used in web page art).
2. No PDF export options.
Inkscape's PDF export features seem to be limited and do not give you many options such as compression options. That is probably the second most noted limitation of Inkscape for professional artists. There may be a work around however. If you export the drawing as postscript and open it in Adobe Acrobat Professional you could set these options here instead. But then you would need to buy Adobe Acrobat Professional - but which is a very useful program - one that is indispensable for managing pdf files quickly. "Web Capture" is one of my favourite features of Adobe Acrobat Professional - can save a website or a web page to pdf for archival purposes. Merging several PDF's into a single document is also a good feature of Adobe Acrobat Professional for general purpose file management.
3. Inkscape is slower than Illustrator. Some Inkscape features are OK but others are slower.
But that might not be a fair comparison because I am testing Inkscape on my ten-year-old 350 MHz Mac G3. But then again, I am also using Illustrator on this same G3 and Illustrator is very fast. I wonder how fast Inkscape would feel on a newer mac?
Overall, these speed issues may not be relevant because for most projects and drawing tasks Inkscape is fast enough.
The slowest feature of Inkscape I find is selecting a typeface if you are setting any type in your document. It takes too long to scroll down your selection of fonts. Could be my computer - or could be Inkscape ot something to do with the fact I have many fonts - but they are all managed by fontbook. I am not sure why selecting a type face seems to take so long to scroll through the list of fonts.
4. Inkscape struggles with type setting.
Typesetting in Inkscape is slow. The critical problem with Inkscape type is that the type in the final Inkscape document (which is natively in the .svg format) will not open in Illustrator. This is not good. I am not sure why and I may possibly be doing something wrong - but I tried this in many ways and there appears to be a problem with the way Inkscape saves type - maybe its just certain fonts (non-type-1?) - not sure. Any Inkscape documents will open in Illustrator but the type will appear in a large black box - major problem. Obviously there is a font translation problem with the way Inkscape saves blocks of type. The solution is to not expect type to work between these two programs (between Inkscape and Illustrator) - but often you don't need to transfer your files between Inkscape and Illustrator and so for these projects this may not be a problem. Another solution is at the final stage of your drawing in Inkscape, convert all the type (if there is any type)to paths ("convert to path" feature) - but this procedure is irreversible - so save a copy of your document first with the fonts not converted to outline. I am sure newer versions of Inkscape will correct this problem eventually. I think there is future hope for Inkscape on this issue.
Here are some other general points I noticed about Inkscape:
The pattern tool (good for wallpaper):
For fun, I tried the pattern tool to try and design a wallpaper pattern. Its pretty cool. You can turn any objects you draw into a wallpaper pattern.
Another way to do wallpaper is to just manually copy and paste in a repeated manner offset by the length of your object until you have enough copies to make a full piece of wallpaper - but that takes longer than simply using the pattern tool.
However, the best tool for generating patterns for wallpaper is probably this tiling feature:
tiling:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html
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bezier curves:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html
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at some future date. Some of the developers on our team, however,
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Curt,
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Is there a way to import photos stored in iPhoto into Adobe Bridge CS6?

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How Open source Flex looks to a mid level developer

Here is my response to a post Matt made on a blog:
THe whole post:
http://blog.simb.net/2009/01/19/take-flex-back-for-the-community/
@Matt
1st off thanks, now my input:
The crux of your criticism seems to be that the process that we use for decision-making is closed its certainly not how we feel
Unfortuntly, this seems like a case of bad commuication by Adobe and the Flex team. If notable community experts get the impression of closed doors, then *certainly* the rest of us get this impression as well.
but there has been very little participation from the community so far
Im a solid dev, and not an expert but I can contribute in things such as testing and low level optimization; But, the Adobe open source site is a galactic disaster and discourages me from getting invloved. It has so many webpages that just go around in circles - filled with text that is verbose, this frustrates me to a great deal. As opposed to somehting straight foreward like:
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Everything is here and easily notable. I avoid the seamingly endless pages and confusion. If I want to get to the Flex dev mailing list I have to register, then choose the lists, add the lists to my account. go though my account prefs read some directions.. then set up some other preferences..jeeeezzzz. If I want to submit a feature request I am directed to create another login for some Bug and Issue management? HUH? I thought I was submitting a featue request.
Right on papervisions google HOME page I see Getting started > Papervision3D Mailing List.
Next when I finially do get to Flex SVN, this trunk. is nothing like I have seen.what IS all this stuff and where do I go to learn about it? There are countless subfolders filled with things I vaguely understand and if I want to learn what it is. where do I go? Is there even a src folder?
Here is a classic example.
Flex trunk Read Me:
http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/README.txt
vs.
Zend Trunk Read me:
http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk/README.txt
*What* is the Flex team thinking with this?
I just spent 5 minutes or so twirling through all these SVN directories and Adobes website and I am clueless. I feel like the project is unessarily complex and disorganized - even if it isnt. This just convinced me to delete my Flex sdk bookmark on my SVN client.
Adobe just lost one potential contributor to Flex SDK.
We have another idea that were bouncing around that I hope to share in a week or two but wont get into now.
Saying stuff like this is what gives people the impression of closed. Why not post these ideas the Flex team has? Even if it is stupid or incomplete
Thats the whole point.

Wow, thanks for your response. This is great. I now understand that I had a combination of prejudice and ignorance when regarding Adobe Open Source. Perhaps my ignorance on these particulars is something that other devs encounter ( that whole perception thing ). I have chatted with people who consider the Flex SDK and Flex Builder... not the same... but fused together so much that it'd be just crazy to try and use one with out the other When I mention using Flex without Flex Builder.... people get that glazed over look in their eyes....( FYI I'm a FDT man, but am keeping a close eye on the new Flex Builder ) I'll use Zend as an example ( it's the best that I can come up with ) but I feel like there is a difference between the open source framework and Zend Studio ( commercial software ). Anyway, I'm really excited about how you've responded to all this. I have more ideas, but Ill sit on them and think it through and get ready for next weeks meeting. Thanks, Alan On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Matt Chotin wrote: > A new message was posted by Matt Chotin in > > General Discussion -- > How Open source Flex looks to a mid level developer > > I've delayed responding to this because frankly I'm not sure what to > say for much of it. The first thing I have to point out is that > many of the things you mention are related to Flex Builder and not > the Flex SDK, which is the part that is open source. So things like > the FB features, and NDA as part of its prerelease program, etc are > part of the commercial offerings from Adobe, not the Flex SDK. > Every build of the SDK has been available from the open source site, > the MAX issues were for commercial products. > > The roadmap for Flex 4 has been posted on the Gumbo page now for a > while, we don't put up specific dates because we don't know specific > dates, and as we get closer to feeling certain on a date we've put > it up. I think that having dates up that constantly change is > counter-productive. > > We use a code name because you never know if another version is > going to jump into the middle or what could happen, locking in on a > version number is often just setting yourself up for confusion > later. Plenty of other projects use code names too, the idea that a > code name denotes secrecy is frankly ludicrous. > > Regarding your question about 1000 developers and 80% wanting to go > in a different direction: if 80% of our customers think we should > move one way, don't you think it'd be pretty silly as a company to > go against them? Adobe as a company, and the Flex team as a product > team, are very focused on delivering our customers value. If we > fail to deliver value, not only is our free open source product not > used, but our paid products aren't used as well. The things that > you sometimes run into are long-term vision vs. short-term pains, > and that may be where some aspects of open source vs. closed > differ. The Adobe team has a long-term vision of Flex, which we > have tried to share and get feedback on, and we make decisions based > on that vision while taking into account the short-term needs of > developers. I think this is a pretty reasonable approach overall, > and you as a Flex/Flash developer have probably benefited from it. > > I'm sorry you feel like Adobe is getting the only benefit of open > source and you aren't, we certainly believe that we've put pieces in > place to allow for everyone to benefit, and will continue to take > suggestions on how we can improve. > > Matt > > > On 1/21/09 7:54 AM, "Alan Klement" <[email protected]> wrote: > > A new message was posted by Alan Klement in > > General Discussion -- > How Open source Flex looks to a mid level developer > > Matt, your right. The Adobe Open Source site does have sufficient > resources, but the perception I had , as a developer interested in > getting invloved, was that the information was either not there, > incomplete, or difficult to find. The perception to me is that > Adobe is not serious about 'Open Source" - even if it is, the > perception I have is that it isn't. > > I don't mean disrespect, but I don't take "Adobe Open Source" > seriously. To illustrate my point I'll use this ( albeit a bit > extreme ) example: > > Suppose the Flex community consists of 1000 devoted developers. > 80% of these developers decide to take the sdk into a direction they > feel it needs to go. This decision, regardless if it's 'good' or > not, renders it incompatible with other Adobe products, namely Adobe > Catalyst. WIll Adobe accept the community's decision? > > When Adobe can answer 'yes' to that question, I will take Adobe's > commitment seriously. > > And there are so many other things t! hat send me red flags. > > - Why is the new name of Flex not public, and why am I, as others, > breaking NDA to talk about the renaming process with other Flex devs? > - What business is NDA doing in an 'Open' project. > - Why is Adobe tight lipped about a release for Flex 4? Where is > the roadmap? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases . > - Why are new features in Flex Builder not public? Adobe asks 'what > do you want', but never tells us the results of these polls and what > features it is actively working on. > - Why are there builds of Flex 4 passed out at MAX, but unavailable > to non-attendies. Had I *paid* to go to MAX, I'd have Flex 4... > - You mentioned that there wasn't a 'budget' to make it easier for > devs to submit feature suggestions? Set up a google mailing list, > that'll cost you 0 dollars. > - What is the term 'budget' doing in open source. If Adobe won't do > something, ask the community to chip in. > -Who are the other Adobe Flex devs? I can go to other open source > projects and see the names and contact info of other devs. Why > aren't THEY posting their opinions on this message board? > _Why all the 'codename' garbage. 'Codename' denotes secrecy. > - and on and on.... > > To me, Adobe looks like they want all the benefits of an open source > project, but none of the consequences. Being open source means > releasing a degree of control over the software. Hell, Richard > Stallman is still trying to convince people to change 'Linux' to > 'Linux-GNU'. > > I would like to help, but I just don't think my efforts would be > seriously considered. I work all day developing Flex applications > and front end Flash web sites. I don't want to then spend my free > time to be engrossed with a project's red tape ( Adobe policies ) - > only to have my efforts to be blown off. > > Sorry guys, it just looks like a win-win for Adobe and a lose-lose > for me. > > ________________________________ > View/reply at How Open source Flex looks to a mid level developer <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.59b790da/2 > > > Replies by email are OK. > Use the unsubscribe <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?280@@.59b790da!folder=.3c060fa1 > > form to cancel your email subscription. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > View/reply at <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.59b790da/5> > Replies by email are OK. > Use the unsubscribe form at <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?280@@.59b790da!folder=.3c060fa1 > > to cancel your email subscription.

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