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Anyone got Flash – Angel

Angel

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From: The Blissful State Of Me?
Registered: 05-21-2001
I was wandering if anyone has the flash program and would be willing to sell it cuz they dont want it? I'm thinking of putting my whole book and the art with it into flash. The catch is buying the new one is way beyond my pocketbook right now.

~Angel~

Angel

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From: The Blissful State Of Me?
Registered: 05-21-2001
sigh- nevermind. I wasnt thinking about it untill now. Even if i get the right program I still have to pay for credit card avalability and a web site to sell off of. Thats 40-50 bucks for the credit card thing then another 100 something for a years worth of net. Then the cost of shipping to whoever wants it. I dont know more then 10 people who may want to buy the thing and that wouldnt brake me even even... yah. So many headakes.

Well im going to go grumble a bit and try to figure out all this...
~Angel~

Curry
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Registered: 11-21-2002
Angel, no you don't have to pay for credit card and web site up front--not at all! Check out e-commerce sites such as eSellerate and Kagi. (Some people use PayPal also.) People pay, the host gets a cut, and you ship with the shipping money they've already paid for (well, you get your check at the end of the month but anyway the money's already headed your way).

And Flash has nice effects, but certainly not the only software that could produce an e-book!!!

Curry

Angel

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From: The Blissful State Of Me?
Registered: 05-21-2001
Well thats some new news. The flash thing is another story though. PDFs always seem to have really hurribul layouts. E-books have their own little probs. Still my dad mentioned Swish. It's just like flash but only $40 something. I posted that stuff above cuz I was hacked off. My little girl spent all yesterday screeming her head off (teething). In the middle of all that I was trying to figure out how I was going to set my book up and whatnot. So I had a cupple of frustrates and other things I cant mention (of a personle matter) that were pushing me on.

Well enough of that. I have to get back to my little girl yet again anyways.
~Angel~

Angel

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Well I wanderd why my dads version of flash was so cheep. Come to find out that it wasnt exactly falsh. It just happend to be a prog called Swish. It works just like flash but isnt 10X less exspencive. So it looks like I will be getting it.

~Angel~

JerryRowe

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Angel, ask MacroMedia about their educational pricing. If you aren't a student, you could buy a copy from a student or non-profit organization (like your church, if it is a non-profit).
silicon_chippy

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Is the student version a full version?There will probably be some clause in the user user agreement that says "This software may not be used for profit"or something similar

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silicon_chippy

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Sorry forgot to mention: Ebay is a good place to sell ebooks, providing they are not full of Affiliate links. If you use "buy it now" you can list several copies at the same time. At least with a site like Ebay, they already have millions of visitors a day. Pdf appears to be the more professional way of distributing decent ebooks. In my opinion to maintain an honest image pdf would be the best format.

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Angel

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From: The Blissful State Of Me?
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PDFs have there flaws as well. They lack animation abilitys. They also often dont fit the viewbul screen. Thats anoing because you have to scroll side to side just to read one sentence at a time. PDFs are like stail pages that are a pain in the neck to navigate if the book is extreamly large (like mine). This is all my view point of it anyways.

Now the swish sistom would alow animations. Simplicity of getting to where you were last reading. A more sureal layout. Cost efficant.

The qustion does come up "who would want to do lots of aniamations. Well the animations can be done like in Super Nintendo. You take diffrent sprites and move them buy to give diffrent feelings. Thats the idea at the momment. Maybe I can get my hands on some ambiant sounds that are roilty free.

Well its all these pros and cons that im looking at right now. Sorry if this all seems like babble... i just woke up.
~Angel~

AmazingJas

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From: Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Registered: 04-03-2003
Angel, I got Flash 3 for free on a magazine coverdisk a few years ago, which is probably a little bit old, especially if you want to do any scripting, but it still produces run of the mill flash files. Maybe someone has an old copy that you can purchase for next to nothing. I quite like using Microsofts web archive format (.mht) which you can do by creating all your files in any old HTML authoring tool, and then open in your browser and save as a .mht. Maybe it would suit your purposes, maybe not. Swish is good, I have a version of this, but I haven't used it for something as complex as a book before.

What's your book about, and any details?

Angel

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From: The Blissful State Of Me?
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AmazingJas
I will post the answer to your qustion in a post called Vailion.

~Angel~

silicon_chippy

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Registered: 10-26-2002
If Acrobat is set up correctly you don't have to scroll from side to side. It also enables you to set out the page properly, and the view will be the same on any PC with Acrobat. Not like some html publishers.

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Klumsy

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quote:

PDFs have there flaws as well. They lack animation abilitys. They also often dont fit the viewbul screen. Thats anoing because you have to scroll side to side just to read one sentence at a time. PDFs are like stail pages that are a pain in the neck to navigate if the book is extreamly large (like mine). This is all my view point of it anyways.

acrobat 6 can contain animated flash content in a PDF

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