Flash

Draft

Definition

Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. ..

See also: SVG and Microsoft Silverlight

Installation and Configuration of Adobe CS3

Creative Suite 3 Design Premium on Win XP

By Daniel K. Schneider. Hardware was a Dell XPS II with updated swiss-french XP. It already had an older Dreamweaver 8, 2 Acrobats (5 and 6 I think), Framemaker 7.0 and Framemaker 7.2, Adobe SVG 3 and Photoshop Elements. I disabled AcAfee (Virusscan). I didn't have any beta or trialware of CS 3 installed.

It was quite a nightmare. Adobe is often not compatible with Adobe (went through this also with various versions of Distillor/Creator in combination with Framemaker). With my install, Acrobat 8 Professional would not install giving a totally useless error message. Didn't find any useful help on the Adobe site, except the sort of ludicrous advice like reinstalling windows.

Here is what I tried on Windows XP (step by step, each time waiting between 1 and 3 hours ....)

• Uninstalled all Adobe software (except Framemaker 7.2). In particular, all PDF Distillor/Creator versions. Launched installer again, just selected the Acrobat component.
• Removed stuff from the Registry uninstalled all "PDF" containing entries with the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility (download), ....
• Removed again CS3 plus all other Adobe software, and went again through the registry and windows cleanup.

Not done so far will have to go through all of the stuff below :(

Links

• http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400615
• http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401401
• http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400593

Conclusion: A bloody disgrace.

Links

General

• Waldron, Rick (2006-08-27). The Flash History. Flashmagazine
• Adobe Flash (Wikipedia)
• Flash Kit Index of Tutorials

(lots of oudated ones too).

Adobe

• Adobe Flash Player
• Adobe Flash Developer Center

(includes some tutorials)

Tutorials

(to sort out, no endorsements here)

• Flashkit.com (A Flash Developer Resource Site)

• Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3

• Adobe Flash CS3 Professional What's New Review by Diane Cipollo.

• Find "Adobe Flash CS3" on YouTube.

Books

(no idea if they are any good)

• Adobe Creative Team (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book. ISBN 0321499824

• Anderson, Andy (2007). Adobe Flash CS3 Professional On Demand. ISBN 0789736926 592 pages.

• Finkelstein Ellen and Gurdy Leete (2007). Flash CS3 For Dummies. ISBN 0470121009, 408 pages.

• Gerantabee, Fred (August ? 2007). Dynamic Learning: Flash CS3 Professional. ISBN 10 0-596-51058-6

• Grover, Chris (2007). Flash CS3: The Missing Manual. ISBN 0596510446 - O'Reilly page, 527 pages. (From reviews on the web, this looks like the most suitable one for starters)

• Morris David (2007). Creating a Web Site with Flash CS3 Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide. ISBN 0321503007

• Moock, Colin, Essential ActionScript 3.0. ISBN 0-596-52694-6. (From reviews on the web, this seems to be best action script 3.0 book)