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Flash 8 Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) Review by Marcos M. Rey
I should have listened.... Very basic!
This is a book for beginners, not even intemmediate level readers. If you are familiar with any other design software like Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw, etc. you will find that much of this book is useless since you already know it! This is a perfect exapmple, quoting the book:
"1.1 Drawing Straight lines
Problem: you want to create a straight line segment or a shape made out of multiple straight line segments.
Solution
Use the line tool[...], the pen tool[...] or the pencil tool."
This is by no means a "cookbook" and I'm very disappointed with O'Reilly being the publisher, since most of the time their books are great.
The book probably focuses on REAL ACTIONSCRIPTING up to 15% its entire content!
Only consider it if you never worked with a design application in your whole life and don't have the time or patience to read more than 2-page long chapters.