Flash
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
CS3 on WinXP
By Daniel K. Schneider. Hardware was a Dell XPS II with updated XP. It already had an older Dreamweaver 8, 2 Acrobats, Framemaker 7.0 and Framemaker 7.2. I disabled AcAfee (Virusscan).
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 2 hours ....)
- Uninstalled all Adobe software (except Framemake 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, ....
- Went again through the registry and windows cleanup.
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
(includes some tutorials)
Tutorials
(to sort out, no endorsements here)
- Flashkit.com (A Flash Developer Resource Site)
- 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)