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a rant: I hate Flash CS5
14 years ago
I have been trying to work from home today.
I installed cs5 on osx, and it worked for about 30 minutes
until I quit out of it to install some fonts, and now it won't open at all. I tried reinstalling it, restarting and nothin' works
presumably it's the fonts that did it, so aside from the fact that it won't work in OSX at all... now...
it's been super unstable in windows. We use it at work on Windows 7.
but I have a feeling this will be the last project we try it with because it's been causing so much trouble. Back to CS3 plz.
it does so much weird shit just randomly, it'll sometimes duplicate every symbol in the library, as empty symbols. I don't know why and it's spooky.
it also does this thing, where if you flip the contents of a symbol, then go out of the symbol, everything in the symbol disappears, won't even publish, it's just, poof, gone.
it makes, ghost graphics, of things that don't exist, like constantly. Like you can turn the visibility off for every layer and you'll still see shit that's not supposed to be there.
the only nice thing about it, IS THE LIBRARY IS SEARCHABLE!
has search bar,is nice. Man, if only it were in the least bit stable.
TLF text could be a nice feature but it looks like crap while editing and nobody knows how to publish streams, so to me that's pretty useless, just use static text for motion graphics, because if you don't you get that obnoxious NO STREAM AVAILABLE warning on preview. Y'know at this point, requires more research I guess...
all in all
avoid
I installed cs5 on osx, and it worked for about 30 minutes
until I quit out of it to install some fonts, and now it won't open at all. I tried reinstalling it, restarting and nothin' works
presumably it's the fonts that did it, so aside from the fact that it won't work in OSX at all... now...
it's been super unstable in windows. We use it at work on Windows 7.
but I have a feeling this will be the last project we try it with because it's been causing so much trouble. Back to CS3 plz.
it does so much weird shit just randomly, it'll sometimes duplicate every symbol in the library, as empty symbols. I don't know why and it's spooky.
it also does this thing, where if you flip the contents of a symbol, then go out of the symbol, everything in the symbol disappears, won't even publish, it's just, poof, gone.
it makes, ghost graphics, of things that don't exist, like constantly. Like you can turn the visibility off for every layer and you'll still see shit that's not supposed to be there.
the only nice thing about it, IS THE LIBRARY IS SEARCHABLE!
has search bar,is nice. Man, if only it were in the least bit stable.
TLF text could be a nice feature but it looks like crap while editing and nobody knows how to publish streams, so to me that's pretty useless, just use static text for motion graphics, because if you don't you get that obnoxious NO STREAM AVAILABLE warning on preview. Y'know at this point, requires more research I guess...
all in all
avoid
Unfortunately some of our clients at my work want things in CS5... so we HAVE to use it. If I'm doing anything animation heavy, I just first do it in CS3 and then import it to CS5. -_- That's been the best way to work around 5's retardation.
im POSSIBLY using a uh... not so legal version that didnt require any installation
but hey its most peoples cup of hate, i dont mind if it makes you rage i wont defend it :D