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Adobe Acquiring Macromedia on December 3, 2005

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the done-deals dept.

dennison_uy writes "Adobe Systems Incorporated and Macromedia, Inc. today announced they have either received or been notified they will receive all regulatory clearances necessary to complete Adobe's pending acquisition of Macromedia. The companies expect to close the transaction on December 3, 2005. Does this mean the end for Fireworks and Freehand?"

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  1. Background info by JonN · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here are a few links for background information for anyone who needs:

    How the Adobe-Macromedia Merger Could Impact PDF
    Interview of both CEOs
    Staff's comments
    Article with a bit more bulk on the subject (The article linked about is quite small)

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  2. Re:PNG better quality? by illtud · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's odd... short of saving at 16bits/channel (which maybe Photoshop can't do - I don't touch that thing), I don't think there are any quality settings with PNG per se; it is a lossless format, after all.

    There's a lot you can to optimize PNGs, for example with pngcrush. See Wikipedia's detail on PNG filesizes. For more info on PS's bad handling of PNG, see Photoshop & PNG about halfway down that page.