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It's nice that we've got the most valuable part of Flash: a vector rendering engine. I do miss Flash's editor for these types of content, though.
by byron_fast 9y ago
It's nice that we've got the most valuable part of Flash: a vector rendering engine. I do miss Flash's editor for these types of content, though.
- CharlesW 9y ago> I do miss Flash's editor for these types of content, though. It's still here! It's now branded Animate CC[1], and (naturally) focuses on other output formats. [1] http://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html http://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
- byron_fast 9y agoRight! But is it SVG or only Canvas?
- Someone 9y agoCanvas, WebGL, or "a potentially limitless number of platforms with the new Custom Platform Support SDK" (https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/publish-multiple-platforms.html https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/publish-multiple-plat...) The product itself can export to SVG (https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/export-image-svg.html https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/how-to/export-image-svg.html), but I get the impression that's only for individual frames. Edit: https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/export-svg-animations-for-the-web-with-snap-svg/ https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/export-svg-animations-... exports SVG animations, but only, it seems, for special types of documents ("From here you simply create a new “Snap.svg Animator” document type and begin creating content s you would normally. Publishing your content then generates a boilerplate HTML file along with all the assets you need, giving you an example of how to embed your animation into a webpage.")
- yosito 9y agoI just spent all day trying to manually wrangle SVG in the browser. I'd be happy with a good static SVG editor to be honest.
- moolcool 9y agoInkscape?
- vturner 9y agoGreat tool, I used it to build image assets a couple years ago for a native android app and now use it for any diagrams I want to look particularly nice.
- ben-schaaf 9y agoInkscape is what I always use for editing static SVGs. Not using it enough to become familiar with it myself, the interface is usually intuitive enough for me to guess my way to success.
- dnautics 9y agoMy biggest gripe with inkscape is that it suffers from some sort of floating point precision error, when you do certain copy/paste/transformation operations it mercilessly outputs more digits of significance than are necessary, which bloats the text and peeves off someone who must obsessively keep their ml clean
- gugagore 9y agoI would guess it's just outputting the 16 or so (decimal) digits of a IEEE float using one of the round-tripable representations. Not sure what else would be reasonable. Could you round the output with some specialized tool? Also what does "ml" mean?
- sooper 9y agoMarkup Language, I'd guess.
- jansho 9y agoAnd also the output png is sometimes unpredictable. I hate it when what's supposed to be flat-coloured in svg turns out to be this 'pixelated-swirl' in png. I also find minimising operations can reduce this effect.
- ivm 9y agoExperienced Flash developers would rasterize complex vector shapes on the first load to consume less CPU by raw vector rendering, especially animations. So it's still not a Flash replacement.
- abritinthebay 9y agoThat’s Canvas+SVG+JS then. Basically.