"new" visio options (was RE: [Sigia-l] RE: VISIO - indexing wireframes)

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"David Heller" wrote:

> printing (if necessary).

That's like digitizing PostIt notes, in reverse. Cringe! :-)

> I know Flash can print, but does the new slide/screen feature allow for (per
> screen) paging? 

Well, if you have "overlayChildren" turned on successive slides get built
with overlaid elements from preceding slides, so any given slide in the
sequence is never 'complete.'

> What I don't like about these solutions over Visio is that wireframes are
> supposed to be low-fidelity and designers like myself have very poor
> discipline when it comes to not making things look "just so". So we end up
> spending too much time playing around w/ perfecting the look of our
> wireframe when we are in tools like fireworks, inDesign and Quark (or
> illustrator for that matter) when Visio just makes it so easy to throw
> around boxes and text and it has a great component library included as well.
> It just makes it easier to keep controled.

I can't speak to your discipline problem:-) but you can set up
Fireworks/Flash to do exactly the same. Just create a set of symbols with
the lo-fi look and drag them in from the Library. In fact, Flash MX 2004 has
a fairly decent set of pre-built components, much bigger than the lame
component set in the previous version of Flash MX.
 
> Oh! Fireworks also has a "style" manager too so you can repeat text styles
> (or object styles).

There you go.

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Ziya

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and testing of the conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it.