That's okay if you are working in a team of people where everyone is
"equal", but if you are at the bottom of the freelance pile and the
designer / client says "I want it as vectors" you have a choice - either
tell them to stuff it and not get anymore work from them, or say "it may
cost extra, but I can do it, so give me the artwork and I will see what
I can do". This then gets put it through the Flash IDE in order to make
a SWF that can be used in the project. As a result the final piece does
look loads better and I most of the time I don't mind the workflow.
Sometimes it's a bit frustrating as many designers are less anal about
labelling their PSD / Illustrator / Flash libraries and layers so I
prefer to take these at an earlier stage so I have the time to sift
through all the unused rubbish in the file :)
Of course, if you are on Linux, this is not really an option, but I
guess it's down to the individual.
Mark Winterhalder wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Romuald Quantin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just a question, what kind of projects are you doing on Linux?
I can't use linux because all the designers I'm working with are working
with the Adobe CS3 (illustrator, and so on), and I'm not able to open their
files on linux.
Is there a way now? Or do you have tips to be able to work with people using
Adobe CS3? Or do you use 2 OS?
I used to give the designer specific instructions, i.e., the linkage
names, instance names, parent/child trees. Later I used Swfmill, yet
later I only needed relatively few graphics, all bitmap assets, almost
everything was code -- the designer gave me PNGs, I embedded them all
as one large binary in an SWF with a small ugly tool I hacked together
for that purpose, and used ByteArray.loadBytes(). Recently I switched
to Flexbuilder.
There are many ways to do it, but of course the workflow needs to be
adjusted. If the designer just gave me an Illustrater file, I'd give
him uncompiled code in return. :)
Mark
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