@Alex ... you wrote this: > Don't PhotoShop and Illustrator output SVG as well? What is it about FXG > that is a must-have especially if you are targeting HTML and not Flash?
I don't know why Adobe created FXG? For now, I just know that I need it for my work as interaction designer when working with Flash Catalyst CS5.5 ... Hopefully, Adobe folks on this list could explain that! -- Sebastian (PPMC) Interaction Designer Looking for a Login Example with Apache Flex? Please check out this code: http://code.google.com/p/masuland/wiki/LoginExample On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 3/14/13 12:33 PM, "Om" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > >> I'm not sure what Adobe gains by continuing to > >> spend resources on FXG support at this time. If you can show there > would > >> be > >> a significant upside, I will try to bring that case to the right people > in > >> Adobe. > >> > > > > > > I am not sure how I can convince Adobe, but here is my reasoning: At my > > current and previous companies, Fireworks is used just because of its > > ability to convert visual designs into FXG. We dabbled with Catalyst, > > but we found that the tool was too complicated to use for Designers, but > > too elementary for Developers. But, the ability to serialize visual > assets > > as FXG turned out to be the best way to skin Flex apps. > > > > On the other side, I am very proficient with Photoshop and not too > familiar > > with Fireworks. For my simple apps, I choose to create the skins in > > Photoshop and spit it out as FXG and just import it into Flex. > > > > I know other folks that used Illustrator for the same purpose. (BTW, > > Illustrator CS6 still supports the "Save As... > FXG > FXG 2.0" option. > I > > just tried it out last night. Not sure what to make of this. ) > > > > Thats the possibility of three different tools Adobe could make money of > > off from customers who don't necessarily use these tools without FXG > > support. > > > > And frankly, the absence of this utility could potentially hurt my chance > > of making sure we dont move away from Flex where I work. > Don't PhotoShop and Illustrator output SVG as well? What is it about FXG > that is a must-have especially if you are targeting HTML and not Flash? > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
