Re: Let me get this straight. Creating blends is now illegal thanks to Macromedia victory in court?

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From: Joseph Cincotta
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 02:25

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Well, I already have Flash 5 that has the "illegal" tabbed palatte feature. I'm hearing Macromedia is scrambling to file an appeal of that original Adobe victory. I'd thought that's what Macromedia HAD to do...otherwise they'd be forced to take Freehand 10 off the shelves until they come up with a newer version WITHOUT the tabs.  

As for Adobe...the blend feature in Illustrator will have to be crippled. Can you imagine that? Not using Illustrator 10 because of blends?! Thank God I have Illustrator 9! At least this is ONE case when an older version of this product will come in handy once Adobe is forced to cripple Illustrator 10 and figure out a way to get users the ability to use colors in blends again in a future release. Hopefully by then Adobe will have figured this out.  But on the bright side...I really don't use blends that much. Too memory intensive in the first place. I'm better off just sticking to gradients. Unless Macromedia is claiming gradients is something they own too.

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