cfdocument is breaking my heart

I have been facing a challenge of using cfdocument to create very nasty and mean looking reports. After boasting about all CF can do, I guess getting reports out on PDF should be as simple as abc. Alas, I think I boasted one more time too many. The cfdocument rendition of anything apart from simple text is pathetic. It is so buggy that I wonder which Macromedia product manager signed off on it. Its processing of CSS styles, positioning, font-sizes are so terrible. Right now, I feel like breaking someone’s ….. My!

Adieu! GoLive and Freehand

The recent marriage of Adobe and Macromedia has produced its first set of casualties. Adobe has announced that it would be discontinuing GoLive and Freehand. This link is in French. Don’t bother asking me if I can read Farancé. GoLive will step aside for the almighty Dreamweaver while Freehand will bow to Illustrator.

Dreamweaver will be sporting a brand new interface (Yeah, it is time for that!) and will also be included in Adobe Creative Suite 3.