Adobe buys Macromedia
 

Adobe is going to buy macromedia. :erm: So now dreamweaver, flash and so on will be added to the existing line of products such as photoshop. :Yikes: They are going to be a massive design software company now. Every major design tool is owned by them now. Cue expensive prices for all of macromedias price

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...top_world_news

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And Macromedia wasn't expensive in the first place?

Re: Adobe buys Macromedia
 

Slightly worrying being as Adobe has competitive software:

Dreamweaver = GoLive
Freehand = Illustrator
Fireworks = Photoshop

Re: Adobe buys Macromedia
 

not for students :D

While photoshop is still expensive for students :mad:

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hmmm does casue one to wonder what is going to happen to the cross over products, we already lot homesite, to dreamweaver, if we loose dreamweaver to golive, might be time to crack out notepad again..

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Surely they will keep the strongest product

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Interesting news - I like Macromedia products, Dreamweaver is fantastically good, imo.

Will be interesting to see how they merge their product sets. As you say, they should keep the strongest, but often companies attempt to merge previously competing products into 1 package.

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Well hopefully they may do that well.

What worrys me is the price of adobe do not like offering stuent prices while macromedia effectively give it to us. Also dreamweaver seems quite streamlined and less bloated.

Re: Adobe buys Macromedia
 

You haven't lost Homesite, it's available on the Macromedia Studio MX CD.

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I know bifta, but it seased active development a long time ago, and was left quite buggy with memory issues..

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Dreamweaver makes me cry...my beautiful code I say but it just laughs at me and rearranges it all anyway :cry:

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Photoshop is quality and so is Flash and Dreamweaver.
Its true they are very expensive though. Maybe they will do combo packs at special rates for all the packages. We'l have to see.

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I don't know many students that actually buy software anyway.... and the price they charge is nothing for a corporation to pay.

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Dreamweaver must beat GoLive hands-down, surely?

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To be fair I only use Dreamweaver for the color taggind....so if I had to foot the bill, and not the company...then I would use one of the many free color tagging applications...cause you only need the code-view....the bloated features in DW...like live site etc...and the WYSIWYG view are laughable.

Just turn the view to coders-view ;)

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I've never seen dreamweaver "rearrange" any code whatsoever and I use it in code view for nearly 45 hours a week.

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Ive never ever seen dreamweaver rearange code, although it can be annoying when it finished your tags for you, biut I think the average user would find that usefull and if it really bothereed me that much id turn it off..

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That's because you use it in code view :)

If you add elements using the design view then it formats (indents, etc) the newly entered code, and can affect the surrounding code.

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The only time I've seen it do it is in situations like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
var dd = <%# Procedure1.FieldValue("c_dow", Container) %>;
if (dd == '7') {
document.write("<tr class=\"weekend\">");
}
else if (dd == '1') {
document.write("<tr class=\"weekend\">");
}
else {
document.write("<tr>");
}
</script>*<td>

* - Extra <tr> sometimes inserted here.

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Nah, I'll stick with Vi thanks :D I use dreamweaver to maintain templates, I really must find some alternative for that, perhaps some combination of grep and sed in a shell script :thoughtful:

It must just not like me :(

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Great Adobe software is such bloated crap, everything I run made by Adobe takes an age to start up.

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hmmmm... i do like the products from both companies there are certain prodcuts from prefer from each company... been using dreamweaver since version 4... currently using mx2004... and photoshop cs is great too... I wonder if Adobe will go down the router of attempting to try and combine the similar products now... i can see the dodgey names, Photoshopworks.. Dreamweaver Live, Freehand Illustrator....

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Photoshop is far and away THE best program in it's class, and that's not just me saying it, that's probably every graphic designer worth his salt worldwide. The latest version takes around 6 seconds to load on my machine, perhaps you should sort whatever second rate hardware you're running it on out and try it again? ;)

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I've never used Photoshop but I am fairly experienced in Premiere Pro, it's the best video editing app I've ever used.