Macromedia released the latest Studio8 series at 8: 00 a.m. Western time on August 8, 2005.

Studio8 includes Dreamweaver8, Flash 8 Professional or Basic, Fireworks 8, Flash Paper2, and Contribute3.
however, it is not expected to be available until mid-September.

Dreamweaver 8 new features are as follows:

1, visual manipulation of XML data
2, unified CSS panel
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4, style rendering toolbar
5, enhanced XML editing and verification
6, enhanced rendering of CSS-based designs
7, enhanced integrated Accessibility reference
8, more pre-built Accessibility designs and templates
9, enhanced dynamic cross-browser verification
10, enhanced mobile content creation
11, web page editing
12 Lead
13, Encoding Toolbar
14, Code folding
15, File comparison
16, Encoding improvement
17, support WebDAV
18, insert Flash Video

Flash Professional 8/Flash Player 8 New Features Summary:

Flash 8.0 is divided into two versions Flash Professional 8 and Flash Basic 8.
1, filter effect
Flash Professional 8 filter allows you to add special effects to movie clips (MovieClip), such as shadow Blur and so on (filters can also be applied to buttons and text) can be set through the panel, just like Photoshop (which can also be controlled by AS)
2, mixed mode
a variety of MovieClip effects are fused with the background.
3 Flash video and new coding technologies.
* On2 VP6 coding makes Flash video (FLV) quality clearer
* Flash video supports Alpha channels
* comes with an independent FLV conversion tool.
* the new video media playback component
* the video import process has been improved.
4, the new text rendering engine
the new text rendering engine Saffron allows text in Flash to be displayed more clearly on the screen, and the text tool is also improved.
5 Real-time bitmap processing
you can dynamically get the color values of bitmaps in Flash, copy pixel areas, draw with pixels, etc.
6, file upload/download interface.
Flash upload interface can directly call the system file dialog box (previously through Javascript), select the file and get the file path. Then send it to the background program for upload.
Flash file download allows you to download any file to your hard disk, you can choose the download path, and you can control the download progress.
7, bitmap buffering
simply means displaying your own unchanged vector map by bitmap. Improve the playing speed of the film. However, if your vector graph changes frequently (rotation, scaling) this feature will have no effect.
8, running stability and startup speed have been improved
9, enhancing the ability of communication with Javascript.
enables seamless connection between Flash and Javascript.
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Mobile simulator, used to simulate the running of Flash Lite applications
12, custom buffer
can customize various buffer effects such as elasticity, ease in, ease out, etc.
13 SWF file metadata (meta-data)
can add some copyright information, title and description information to the SWF file.
14, the library panel has been improved
to facilitate switching between libraries of multiple files
15, improved panel management function
can merge the panels you need into one panel, through tag access (back to Flash 5)
16, script assistant
ActionScript script editor normal mode back, called "script assistant"
17 New features for dynamically loading external GIF,PNG images

Fireworks 8 are as follows:

1, new image editing panel
2, support for more format imports: QuickTime Image, MacPaint, SGI, and JPEG 2000
3, optimized batch output flow
4, enhanced vector image compatibility
5, recognition of ActionScript color values (0xFFCC00)
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8, perspective shadow
8, stereo shadow
9, mobile device interface components
10auto shape attribute panel
11 Special character panel
26 new mixed modes