Joe Karkour is the Adobe Creative Suite Expert in Adobe MENA who will be hosting Adobe CS5.5 Alive! event in Dubai, UAE on 31st October 2011, where you can experience some of the amazing new features and capabilities of our industry leading solution Creative Suite 5.5.

This even is arranged by Adobe and Mediacast.

To register click here

Ever since Steve Jobs wrote his thoughts on Flash, Adobe is trying to come up with new ways to reduce the damage done to flash by Steve’s thoughts.

Either its Adobe’s Ad campaign WE LOVE APPLE

or a new Flash Player preview release, code-named “GALA”, which introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3, the most recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

From Steve

Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.

From Adobe

That’s why we actively support technologies like HTML4, HTML5, CSS, and H.264, in addition to our own technologies.

But now Adobe is playing with the statistics.

To set the records straight Adobe published Truth About Flash and also WE LOVE CHOICE, which is about supporting open source technologies.

Adobe is launching its Creative Suite^® 5 in UAE in a different way.
It will be funky beach setup with music and drinks.

Adobe will be showcasing latest videos, print and web tools.

Its a FREE event.

Date : Saturday,8th May 2010
Time : 5:00 pm till 11:00 ( UAE local time )
Venu : Ritz Carlton Hotel – JBR Walk, Dubai
Dress Code: Beach Wear

For Your free Adobe Beach Bash Registration Click Here

In past I have posted some tutorials and flash codes to import arabic in flash using xml and css and also about Flaraby.

Now you can download Flaraby AS3 as an Adobe Flex and Adobe Air component (SWC) that enables rendering Arabic, Persian or Urdu text together with Latin (eg. English, French, Spanish or Italian) text in SWF files at runtime.

You can download FlarabySWF from Adobe AIR Marketplace

You can read in detail about Flaraby3 here and can also see some examples here.

Read about old version of Flaraby here.

similar posts: Arabic in Flash With Few Changes, Flaraby3 – Flash Component for Arabic in Flash is Available

AD: Cards
Company: Adobe
AGENCY: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

At the WebDU conference in Sydney, Adobe gave a sneak peek of the new Flash CS4 IDE.

Few of the new features mentioned were

Editing animation using Bezier curves. Just click and drag the entire curve to move the animation about the screen. No need to select keyframes, just drag and drop.

New animation timeline is added. You’ve got individual splines for positioning, transforms, colors, effects and filters, providing a level of control never formerly possible. You can have separate easing types for ANY parameter! Also note that in the property inspector you’ll be able to set not only X and Y position of objects, but also the depth (Z)

Read the complete article here with pictures of Flash CS4

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All black and gray nice looking word processor from Adobe goes now for public beta. Before it was available only through invitations.

Buzzword is a complete web based word processor application built on flash and flex. You can use tables, images, breaks, import media files plus you can store your documents online and also share them.

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Adobe has announced its CS4 beta versions of Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Frieworks and Adobe Soundbooth. You can go to Adobe Labs website and can download trail version of these beta products.

These beta version are only active for 48 hours but if you are already a CS3 customer you can use CS4 software more than that time period.

Few of the features of these CS4 Products are

Adobe Dreamweaver

Live View: You can view your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver, without leaving the software.

Photoshop Integration:Drag and drop an Adobe Photoshop® PSD file into a Dreamweaver page to create an image Smart Object

New user interface: Work faster and smarter across Dreamweaver and other components of the next version of Adobe Creative Suite®

Adobe Fireworks

User Interface: You can easily now switch between photoshop, flash and fireworks.

Create PDF: Now you can create hi end interactive pdf documents in Fireworks.

CSS Support: Design complete web pages in Fireworks’ robust graphic environment, and then export web standards–compliant, CSS-based layouts.

Adobe Soundbooth

Multi Track Editing

Matching volume levels with a single command

Previewing MP3 compression quality

Removing unwanted noises and background sounds

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Thanks to shagarah that now we have Flaraby3 available to download.

Some basic features of this flash components are

• Flaraby3 helps developer to import arabic text in flash
• Flaraby3 supports Tashkeel in Arabic text.
• Flaraby3 supports the “embedFonts” property which enables the .swf file to display the Arabic text even if the target user doesn’t have Arabic language installed. However, due to the way the fonts are made, only some fonts succeed to show correctly, examples are “Traditional Arabic” and “Andalous”.
• Support Html Tags.

There are few drawbacks but I think shagarah will INSHALLAH solve this small issues which are

• Multiple text formats are NOT supported in the same textField.
• You MUST use a TextFormat object.

Overall Flaraby is a one of the best and easiest solution.

You can download Flaraby3 Lite from here. You can also doownload the component from the box widget on the sidebar. A Solution similar to this but with xml and css is here for arabic in flash, drawback of this solution is end user must have arabic local install on its operating system

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Shagarah, One of Creative UAE reader commented on a post which was arabic in flash through xml & css. I thought its better to make a new post on the basis of the information Shagarah provided us.

Adobe have a component name as Flaraby which can display arabic and english text in .swf files at runtime side by side in a same sentence. It supports 2 fonts  “Traditional Arabic” and “Andalous” for now. It acctully embed the arabic font into swf to show the arabic text, which means the final application does not need an Arabic-enabled system to work on

Its price is $10 and you can download it from Adobe  by clicking here.
It was developed by beemode, a company based in Egypt.

You can try the Flaraby here

Akhbarakom is an application based on Flaraby technology to display Arabic text.

You can download and read about it more from Download.com.

I think its a great flash component but if anyone is not in the mood of spending money, you can have a complete free solution on arabic in flash post. You can use arabic(rtl) text in same sentence with english text.

Drawback is end user should have arabic support installed on his/her OS.
On Windows XP you can do it by going into control panel then click on regional & language support and then click on Languages tab and check Install files for East Asian languages. It will ask for your Windows Installation CD.

sources :  arabicode, adobe, shagarah comment

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