Adobe developer center is updated with new content for Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3.
You can find many new samples, downloads, tutorials, and getting started videos to learn about the new features. its really cool 🙂
vivek
Adobe released Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional 🙂  great
This is something for everyone, many new features are added for designers as well as developers.
Main features are:
Import Adobe® Photoshop® (PSD) and Adobe Illustrator® (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.
Quickly add motion to your creations with the easy-to-use, highly controllable, frame-based timeline inspired by traditional animation principles such as keyframing and tweening.
Easily create pie wedges, round off rectangle corners, define an inner circle radius, and do much more. Visually adjust shape properties on the stage. And create custom shapes with the included JavaScript API.
Save time with the new ActionScriptâ„¢ 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.
Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive-download FLV content with comprehensive video support. Ensure the best video experience with a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed captioning, and much more.
Integrate audio into your projects by importing MP3 files. Integration with Adobe Soundboothâ„¢ makes it easy to edit files as needed, without requiring audio production experience.
Visually adjust shape properties on the stage with smart shape drawing tools, create precise vector illustrations with the new Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3, and more.
Leverage the Flash application programming interfaces (APIs) to easily develop extensions that add custom functionality.
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.
Design, preview, and test mobile device content using Adobe Device Central CS3, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite® 3. Create and test interactive applications and interfaces viewable with Flash Lite™ software.
I really want to test this flash version as some of the features are great help for designers.
vivek
KToon is a 2D Animation Toolkit designed by animators for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry. This project is covered by the GPL License using G++, OpenGL and QT as programming resources from KDevelop as the development platform. By now, KToon is only available for Unix systems only
Ktoon is an animation package like Adobe’s Flash. It can even output .swf files and it’s only in .8 beta. The developers are looking for contributions of $1 to help pay for the development costs.
Intresting!
There have been non-Macromedia tools to create SWF since the format was openly published in 1998 via jd/adobe
vivek