Flex is open source, what about adobe flash?

Hi all,
There is some confusion on our Flex team. We're aware of the
Flex announcement that Adobe intends to release Flex under the MPL
at some future date. Some of the developers on our team, however,
believe the Adobe Flash plugin in browsers such as Mozilla are open
source as well. After googling, I could not find any indication
that adobe Flash is open source. We're aware of Gnash, etc, but our
question relates specifically to Adobe Flash - is it open source or
has there been an announcement that Adobe intends to open source
Flash browser plugins? What, if anything, is open source concerning
Flash?
Thanks,
iksrazal

Flash will not be open source.
Tracy

Similar Messages

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
I wouldn't bother reading the whole manual - just the parts you might need to reference while working on a project. The bezier curve section in the manual is good to read:
bezier curves:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html
As mentioned on that page, paths can be created using three ways:
1. the Freehand tool
2. the Bezier
3. the Calligraphy tool
My favourite is the bezier tool. It offers precise control.
The other tools are good too (and probably fun to use) but for precise drawing, I like the Bezier tool myself.
Other users might prefer the other drawing tools (Freehand tool or Calligraphy tool) for faster stroke creation and faster line effects.
Once you draw a shape and close it (click on the first endpoint when placing the last endpoint) (I always recommend closing a shape - but you don't have to) then you can colour the shape any colour you would like or with a shaded gradient or even make it transparent to any degree and overlay it on top of other shapes. Lots of control to do some pretty creative stuff.
I would also recommend organizing your drawing into layers. If...(continued on next post...)

Is there any timeline soon that apple users will be able to open things that need adobe flash player? I can not even play any games on Facebook, I can't open certain files, pictures sent to me or things like forms I news to see when I am not home

I am so frustrated about Adobe Flash player. I can not play any Facebook games, open certain files and pictures and documents that I need to access because not only does this phone not do it but my old Palm Pre couldn't do it either. I have had so many times where I needed to access things either online or via email, or message that I can not even look at because of this. I have to wait until I for home or ask someone else to do it for me which is embarrassing. I rave about my iPhone 4S all the time because it is truly great except for this. When it use to happen with my Pal Pre I figures once I got my iPhone that it wouldn't happen anymore but I guess I was completely wrong. I have had this problem for years and always get a message saying that it's being worked on. Well a couple of years is a long time to work on it. I understand about contracts and stuff but why is it taking a company such as Apple to be able to get it for their products? I get a lot and always want to play the games on Facebook but I can't do it on most of them at least the ones I have tried. So I can not play against anyone at that time I have to wait until I get home or use someone else's computer or something. Please tell me that in the extremely near future that this will not be a problem anymore. PLEASE!! I am sure I am not the only one out there who is having issues and if you do get it available please let there be an upload/upgrade for current phones and not just for future versions of Apple phones. That just wouldnt be very fair to all of your loyal customers and tell everyone to get your products because they are great and end up leaving this little problem out until they by your phone. Especially if they just got the phone they have. You guys are awesome with technology I have faith that you can make this available to all Apple products old and new by uploads or upgrades. Thank you hopefully can give me some info about the status with this or if there wen is one. I would have thought that being a company such as you are that it would already be taking care of right from the beginning and not wait years to take care of somewhat that is very important ro have especially when there is so much our there using Adobe Flash now. I am not sure if this is just a blog with customers or if the company actually sees these posts but I am just hoping company or not that someone knows something about this. Thank you for your time and for reading this entire post if you have even gotten this far.

Oh no... NOT THE 99-PAGER!!! Anything but THAT!!!

What Is Adobe Flash?

What is Adobe Flash?
I have been prompted to install it or update it from various websites. I'd like to know what it is and what it does.

I suppose you are talking about Adobe Flash Player. Its nothing but a browser plug-in which enables to play flash movies files (.swf). You can read more about it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

How do i open sites that require adobe flash? I can't open my own website, not to mention tons of other sites. It's ridiculous.

How do i open sites that require adobe flash? I can't open my own website, not to mention tons of other sites. It's ridiculous.

Flash is not supported on the iPad and never has been supported on any iOS device - and as Adobe have never managed to make a version of their flash player that works on iOS devices, and they have recently announced that they are stopping development on all mobile versions of it, it probably never will be.
Browser apps such as Skyfire, iSwifter, Puffin and Photon 'work' on some sites, but judging by their reviews not all sites. Also some websites, especially news sites, have their own apps in the App Store.

How can I lodge a complaint about Adobe Flash Player?

How can I lodge a complaint about Adobe Flash Player? When I updated Adobe Flash Player this morning it also installed a McAfee scanning software without any warning or notification. I find this totally unacceptable. But I cannot find any information on the Adobe website that will allow me to lodge my complaint. Which I also find totally unacceptable.
Ho hum.

This is a an old complaint. I would have thoughtas much bad karma as Adobe has received would have stopped this practice espcially since it found that many time McAfeee either gets protection signatures wrong or cause more problems than it fixes.
I don't know whether mailto:[email protected] is still effective.
At one time a disgruntled Adobe products user created a FaceBook or twitter page. And many in past have claimed when there complaints got ignored or laughed at by Adobe. They suddenly got action whe airring their complaint on this FaceBook or Twitter page.
There should be a big warning Box stating:
Adobe is about to install a package Called McAfee on your computer. If you do not wish to instal click checkmark here.
Do you wish have Adobe install Products not requested on your computer yes__ or no__ please use a √
And to adhere to wishes of the customer.

About Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 and Game Developing.

Hi guys,
I would like to ask 4 questions for today.
1) What can Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 do? ( Can it create games, design sites and animate? or more?)
2) Could you guys tell me any website where I can register a domain name for very low prices? (Put a link of the site and estimation of amount.)
3)How can I register an email on my website? Example : [email protected] (without using yahoo mail msn or google, etc) How to use your website name after @.

1) What can Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 do? ( Can it create games, design sites and animate? or more?)
flash cs5.5 can be used to create desktop, browser-based and mobile: games and applications including those that use animation.
2) Could you guys tell me any website where I can register a domain name for very low prices? (Put a link of the site and estimation of amount.)
www.dotearth.com - check the prices yourself. or, use google to search.
3)How can I register an email on my website? Example : [email protected] (without using yahoo mail msn or google, etc) How to use your website name after @.
you'll need a domain (register your name) and you'll need a web host where your site is physically located.

What is Adobe Flash Player Utility

What is Adobe Flash Player Utility that I see in my Windows 8 Task Manager??
I found a way to disable it by renaming a couple Flash files in the Windows folder. And so far I see no ill effects.
Also, when I try to change the Updates in Global Settings it is grayed out.
Anyone know why this is so? THis was grayed out befoe I renamed said files.
James

Thanks for the fast response.

How can I open websites that use adobe flash ?

How can I open websites that use adobe flash ?

The website should open, but the Adobe Flash will not work as there's no Flash plug-in for mobile Safari.
After some failed attempts by Adobe to work out Flash for iPad, Apple decided to forgo it, and Steve Jobs published a famous letter on the reasons why Apple would not be supporting Flash on iPad.
The fall, Adobe announced that they were abandoning Flash on all mobile platforms, including Android, and they have deprecated the use of Flash as a plug-in on Desktop platforms. Flash will be moving to become a platform for development of cross-platform desktop applications and HTML5 will replace it for web and mobile purposes.
Web sites that still use Flash will slowly move away from the technology in the next few months. Most web sites that expected traffic from mobile device users have already moved away from using Flash.

Cannot open compressed folders and adobe flash player compatible files

cannot open compressed folders and adobe flash player compatible files

This is a Windows setting. In Windows 7 you can change it through the Control Panel: Either Start>Default Programs or Start>Control Panel>Programs>Default Programs>Set Associations
Find .pdf and change it (click Change Program) from Microsoft Word to Adobe Reader. Browse to find the Reader application if necessary: Program Files>Adobe>Reader11>Reader>AcroRd.exe

Having problems opening facebook, and downloading adobe flash player plugin

Can't open facebook, or instal adobe flash player plugin

You cannot run Flash on any new mobile device and it was never possible to do so on iOS systems. The closes you can get it to run Flash on a PC or Mac and use remote access software.

What can I do about Adobe Flash Player blocking view of internet sites? Is it related to the MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive replacement program?

What can I do aout Adobe Flash Player blocking view of internet sites?

1. System Preferences > Other/ Flash Player > Advanced > Delete All
     Press the "Delete All" button
     Install Adobe Flash Player.
    http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
    Follow the prompts.
    Quit Safari.
    Restart computer. Relaunch Safari.
2. Allow Plug-ins
    Safari > Preferences > Security
    Internet Plug-ins > "Allow plug-ins"
    Enable it.
    Press " Manage Website Settings" button for more options.

I have a question about Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for Mobile.

Hi everyone. I'm newbie at forum , if I opened this topic to the wrong place ; please , excuse me I'm an HTC HD2 user. And I noticed that ; Flash 10.1 support to the Android OS had come to HTC Google Nexus One , with "Froyo" update. I watched some videos at Youtube , about "Open Screen Project" (that Adobe leads) . And Adrian Ludwig(at Flash team) was using HTC HD2 and showing the Flash 10.1 at phone. I'm thinking that , if he used Flash at HTC HD2 , then there must be a release for phone too. I'm not sure , it's very important for me. Thank you , for your answers. Have a nice day.

Whoops, my bad. Didn't note that HD2 is WinMo.
As I understand it (and I am just a consumer, not official in any way) - the intention is to get 10.1 on every device possible, including the iPlatform if Apple ever decides to change their mind (HA!).
As for the status of WinMo currently, I am not sure about that. I know 10.1 is being tested on Blackberry, Palm, and Android for sure, but I don't know what Microsoft has been up to, considering they have their own competing tech at stake here too...
If I had to take a guess (and it would be a guess) I would say that the highest probability is 10.1 on WinMo7 devices, though I have no information to back that up, its just a guess.

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

About Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader

Hi folks,
Archlinux 86-64 2007-08-2
SeaMonkey 1.1.6,
I need to install Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader
I found following link;
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64
But not for Seamonkey. Does it work on Seamonkey. Besides it's flash plugin. Would it be the same as Adobe Flash Player?
Does 32bit Adobe Reader works on 64bit Seamonkey. Where can I download it? Where can I find its installation document?
TIA
B.R.
satimis

ghostHack wrote:
Assuming you had run
updatedb
before doing
locate ndiswrapper
it looks like the package didn't build. Go back to your nspluginwrapper directory and run
makepkg
as your user, if this completes successfully it should create a file called something like
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
probably in the current directory. It may fail initially due to unsatisfied dependencies but you should be able to install them using pacman since I think all the lib32- stuff is in [Community] now.
Thanks for your advice.
Ran;
$ sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community 330.8K 132.5K/s 00:00:02 [#####################] 100%
archlinuxfr 26.2K 24.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-alsa with extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia with extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-vorbis with extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs with extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-ogg with extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-flac with extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gstreamer0.10-gconf with extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace gnome-keyring-manager with extra/seahorse? [Y/n] Y
warning: libgnomeui: forcing upgrade to version 2.22.1-1
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: cairo conflicts with cairo-lcd. Remove cairo-lcd? [Y/n] Y
Remove: cairo-lcd gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia
gstreamer0.10-vorbis gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-ogg
gstreamer0.10-flac gstreamer0.10-gconf gnome-keyring-manager
Total Removed Size: 3.63 MB
$ sudo updatedb
No complaint
$ ls nspluginwrapper/nspluginwrapper/
PKGBUILD nspluginwrapper.install rpmextract.sh
$ cd nspluginwrapper/nspluginwrapper
Built the package as user
$ makepkg
==> Making package: nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5-3 (Wed Apr 16 10:13:38 HKT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm...
--2008-04-16 10:13:38-- http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/files/nspluginwrapper-i3
86-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm
Resolving gwenole.beauchesne.info... 88.191.25.183
Connecting to gwenole.beauchesne.info|88.191.25.183|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 52386 (51K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: `nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm'
100%[================================================================>] 52,386 27.0K/s in 1.9s
2008-04-16 10:13:42 (27.0 KB/s) - `nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm' saved [52386/52386]
-> Downloading nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm...
--2008-04-16 10:13:42-- http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/files/nspluginwrapper-0.
9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm
Resolving gwenole.beauchesne.info... 88.191.25.183
Connecting to gwenole.beauchesne.info|88.191.25.183|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 58545 (57K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: `nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm'
100%[================================================================>] 58,545 9.56K/s in 6.0s
2008-04-16 10:13:49 (9.56 KB/s) - `nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm' saved [58545/58545]
-> Found rpmextract.sh in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm ... Passed
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm ... Passed
rpmextract.sh ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/libxpcom.so
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin
203 blocks
./usr/bin/nspluginwrapper
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/noarch
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/noarch/mkruntime
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/noarch/npviewer
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux/npconfig
./usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux/npwrapper.so
./usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.so
./usr/share/doc/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5
./usr/share/doc/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5/COPYING
./usr/share/doc/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5/NEWS
./usr/share/doc/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5/README
251 blocks
==> Tidying install...
-> Removing info/doc files...
-> Compressing man pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Adding install script...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: nspluginwrapper (Wed Apr 16 10:13:50 HKT 2008)
This time NO complaint.
$ ls
PKGBUILD nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm pkg src
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm nspluginwrapper.install rpmextract.sh
But
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
can't be found
I can't find 'alien' and 'dpkg' on repo. With them I can convert .rpm package to .deb package and install the later with with dpkg. Or is there any way on Archlinux?
Any suggestion? TIA
B.R.
satimis

Flex is open source, what about adobe flash?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for