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open-source flash substitute?
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 4:08 pm
by stanolis
anyone know of any? i found something called gnash.
getting sick of all the awesome, yet expensive programs. i am adjusting to gimp from photoshop.
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 3:41 am
by Tricky
Flash is free though, I don't really see your point. I tried one open-source flash substitute on Linux (forgot the name), but instantly regretted it. It didn't run well and it was very difficult to uninstall flash from firefox.
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:49 pm
by purgatori
Given that you refer to being sick of the expense of commercial/closed-source applications, I can only assume that what you're looking for is a program that allows for Flash creation/authorship, given that the Flash player itself is free. Gnash, like 'swfdec', is only a Flash player, and can't be used to create content.
Now I'm no expert by any means, but I do believe that both OpenOffice.org (specifically the 'Impress' package), and Inkscape both have the capability to export to the Flash file format.
Hope that helps.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:55 pm
by Kris
gimp is good... I use paint.net It requires dot net support, but you're okay with version 2 of that.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:35 am
by candesco
Do you mean the flash player to play dynamic content on websites or do you mean a flash making tool like Flash professional?
If it's the first; that's free to use and you can just download it from adobe.com.
If it;s the latter: there are some programs which can make flash. Also open source.
Here is a page of Open source flash projects
Open Source Flash Projects Open Source Flash
And there is Openlaszlo:
OpenLaszlo | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com