Hi all

I know I'm way out the a bit on my topic since some of the questions
are really more specialized such as flash, but as others have said the
combined expertise in this group is unequalled. I have a client that
want's to be able to edit the site after it's done and one of the
pages that will change all the time is the calender page. They
currently do this in a word.doc that has some nasty nested tables that
prevent from importing this directly into almost any other program.
There is a lot of data on this calender that no one is going to want
to rewrite more then once, especially me. The client has no web
knowledge right now other then looking at it in a browser, although
they surprised me when they opened firefox instead of IE. Now maybe
I'm the same situation as Mark who is thinking about a CMS solution.
I'm really not ready to go there yet, and I propose to just give them
templates that restrict their access to anything they shouldn't be
messing with. Anyway I'm getting off my own topic here.

This calender is driving me nuts. I can print to pdf which enables me
to open it in Illustrator with everything still editable. From there I
can go to flash which grumbles unless I convert the text to outlines
in illustrator first. However when publishing my text loses too much
quality and looks bad. Same problem with saving for web directly out
of illustrator, photoshop, or fireworks. Before I went down this road
I actually used flash paper on my old windows laptop has Studio 8. Now
there the results were fantastic, but although the nifty little
interface it makes for your document does a wonderful job on web or
off, it doesn't look good in the design the client wants. If there was
a way to get flash paper to print this without the interface I'd be
all set and it would be a great solution for the client, but I don't
see any option to do that. It seems to me that if flash paper 2 can do
this I should be able to duplicate the quality in the full flash
program, but it's not and I'm also not a flash expert ( I have CS3
Flash pro). Flash is normally the route to go for vector documents
right? I remember there was a solution although I've never used it
called SVG I think, but Adobe killed it according to what I'm reading
and the format is not supported in IE.

It sounds like the client can come up with a copy of Macromedia Studio
8, which will give them flash paper 2, as well as Contribute, flash,
and Dreamweaver, not that they have a clue how to use any of it
though. I'm spinning on this and even if I finally drag something
usable out of the woodwork it seems unlikely the client will be able
to duplicate it. Oh my head hurts..... anybody got an aspirin-AKA-
solution?

Dave

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