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10-09-2003, 17:45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Canterbury
Posts: 115
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Studio MX 2004 - Worth the Overdraft?
So what's the verdict - do I go into my overdraft to get it? Bloody macromedia - I spent £550 or something only last year on studion mx and now mx 2004 for £300ish! That's just wrong! Argh! Living in the Slow Lane
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10-09-2003, 20:13
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This is it - ground zero.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Paper St.
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I say if you don't use everything in the studio...go a la carte... fun: HGC v.4 | last.fm: DT | me | oi! f*ck u roto: ...via meebo!
New to interweb design? Your friends at dt can help. |
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11-09-2003, 01:39
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Free Ring Ding™
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Manchester
Posts: 9,502
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Take a look at the extra features and judge for yourself if you need them or not. The new css features in Dreamweaver look rather good, but then again you can get TopStyle Pro for £30 or something. ..................
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11-09-2003, 04:14
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Magazines™
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Glasgow..
Posts: 11,263
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for one i shall not be upgrading -though about it but really getting into topstyle. plus i dont use freehand, fireworks so not much point really just wait until the demos are available and look and see if you really need to make the job £3 for what oli |
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11-09-2003, 04:15
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 144
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I've had it for a while (beta tester) and I'd say its not worth it. Freehand is unchanged, the new features of flash are good IF you are going to use them, and have a very fast PC to run it on (its frustratingly slow on our work P3 800's) and the DWMX2004 handling of CSS is still very poor compared to topstyle. If you're using CSS for layout you still wont be able to use DW and expect reliable results from the design mode. Personally, I now only use PS7, Topstyle 3 pro and VERY occasionnally Flash MX. Dont chuck your money away for nothing if you already have the MX suite unless you really need the extra features in Flash MX Pro |
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11-09-2003, 04:30
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Iris Folder
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: smokey
Posts: 2,672
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Can you only get flash MX 2004 pro in the studio suite then? or can you upgrade MX seperately? Meant to go to one of the free Seminars at the beguinning of the month but was too busy walking up hills to get there  |
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11-09-2003, 06:02
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Magazines™
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Glasgow..
Posts: 11,263
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just tried dm mx 2004 - uninstalled now they have copied topstyls approach to tags but even when you chose make accessible page from new menu - it creates a page with hundreds of nested tables and font tags. they had a real opportunity here but again it goes unanswered |
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11-09-2003, 06:44
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Magazines™
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Glasgow..
Posts: 11,263
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using flash pro and i must say the extra extensions you can but are bloody awesome my work will become faster and hopefully more creative having seen some of the extensions in use ( i am shite at actionscripting) alot of stuff for cross platform deployment. Becoming more and more involved with dvd and interactive flash. I also like the video features in pro. Will defo be purchasing flash pro but nothing else |
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