In animation applications, such as Adobe Flash and Synfig, Bézier curves are used to outline, for example, movement.

In this Graphics Interchange Format |. gif of a 2D Adobe Flash | Flash animation, each ' stick ' of the stick figure | figure is Keyframe # Animation by means of computer graphics | keyframed over time to create motion.

* Dilbert home page ( requires Adobe Flash, version without flash )

With the advent of the web, information designers with experience in interactive tools such as Adobe Flash are increasingly being used to illustrate the background to news stories.

For example, in Adobe Systems Flash, the animator can specify, in keyframes, the starting and ending position of an object, such as a circle.

In Adobe Flash, shape hints can be added to both original and transformed shapes to give the program a better idea of the interpolation.

SmartCE ( Connected Entertainment ) is a reference platform that integrates Android, Adobe Flash platform for TV, Skype, the Home Jinni ConnecTV application and other applications.

Adobe Flash Player

Flash content may be displayed on various computer systems and devices, using Adobe Flash Player, which is available free of charge for common web browsers, some mobile phones, and a few other electronic devices ( using Flash Lite ).

Flash is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems, as the result of their 2005 purchase of Macromedia.

To this end, they released Adobe Integrated Runtime ( AIR ), a cross-platform runtime environment that builds rich internet applications in Adobe Flash.

* Video lectures ( require Adobe Flash ): Introduction to Political Philosophy delivered by Steven B Smith of Yale University and provided by Academic Earth.

Well-known plug-ins examples include Adobe Flash Player, QuickTime, and Java Applets.

* SVG Web is a JavaScript library for Web developers, targeted at Internet Explorer and dependent on the presence of an installed Adobe Flash plugin on the client machine.

Adobe Flash Lite has optionally supported SVG Tiny since version 1. 1.

Around 2002, the interest in a single, unified, streaming format and the widespread adoption of Adobe Flash prompted the development of a video streaming format through Flash, which is the format used in Flash-based players on many popular video hosting sites today such as YouTube.

Examples of such plug-ins are Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave or applets written in Java.

RoboHelp is a help authoring tool ( HAT ) created by eHelp Corporation ( formerly named Blue Sky Software ), acquired by Macromedia, which itself was then acquired by Adobe Systems.

* Adobe Flash ( formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash ), multimedia platform software

Adobe Audition ( formerly Cool Edit Pro ) seems to solve this by looking for the period closest to a center period that the user specifies, which should be an integer multiple of the tempo, and between 30 Hz and the lowest bass frequency.

* JRun, from Adobe Systems ( formerly developed by Allaire Corporation )

Sorenson Video is used in Apple's QuickTime and Sorenson Spark in Adobe Flash ( formerly Macromedia Flash ).

** Adobe Flash Builder, formerly Adobe Flex Builder, is an integrated development environment ( IDE ) built on the Eclipse platform meant for developing rich Internet applications ( RIAs ) and cross-platform desktop applications for the Adobe Flash platform.

* Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, technologies for developing rich internet applications

Adobe Audition ( formerly Cool Edit Pro ) is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix / edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

Presently, it most commonly refers to a scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director ( formerly Macromedia Director ), used for regular desktop applications, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave internet sites.

ActionScript was initially designed for controlling simple 2D vector animations made in Adobe Flash ( formerly Macromedia Flash ).

* ColdFusion ( Adobe proprietary, formerly Macromedia, formerly Allaire )

Adobe Fireworks ( formerly Macromedia Fireworks ) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor.

HomeSite was an HTML editor owned by Adobe Systems ( formerly owned by Allaire and Macromedia ).

Adobe Shockwave ( formerly Macromedia Shockwave ) is a multimedia platform used to add animation and interactivity to web pages.

Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit ( SDK ) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.

Examples of document processors include programs like PTC Arbortext, Adobe FrameMaker, LyX, BroadVision QuickSilver ( formerly Interleaf ), and Syntext Serna.

Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit ( SDK ) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.

Adobe Labs ( previously called Macromedia Labs ) is a source for news and pre-release versions of emerging products and technologies from Adobe.

SVG was developed by the W3C SVG Working Group starting in 1998, after Macromedia and Microsoft introduced VML whereas Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML.

* WYSIWYG offline editors, such as Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver ( previously Macromedia Dreamweaver ), with which the site is edited using a GUI interface and the final HTML markup is generated automatically by the editor software

Recent versions of bitmap editors such as GIMP and Adobe Photoshop support vector tools ( e. g. editable paths ), and vector editors such as CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Fireworks, Inkscape or SK1 are adopting raster effects that were once limited to bitmap editors ( e. g. blurring ).

As of late October 2005, six companies were known to have licensed the patent from Forgent including Adobe, Macromedia, Axis, Color Dreams, and Research In Motion.

Inspired by the success of Media 100, members of the Premiere development team left Adobe to start a project called " Keygrip " for Macromedia.

* ActionScript, a programming language originally developed by Macromedia and currently by Adobe for developing Flash and Flex applications

This rivalry continued even after the Aldus acquisition, because FreeHand was not included, but Adobe eventually acquired Freehand in 2005 with its acquisition of then-owner Macromedia.

Adobe now owned FreeHand along with the entire Macromedia product line and in 2007, Adobe announced that it would discontinue development and updates to the FreeHand program.

Adobe developed the CS3 application integrating Macromedia products ( 2005 ), rather than recompiling CS2 and simultaneously developing CS3.

Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia products.

In January 1995, Macromedia acquired Altsys Corporation after Adobe Systems announced a merger with Altsys ’ business partner, the Aldus Corporation.

On April 18, 2005, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $ 3. 4 billion on the last trading day before the announcement.

* 1996: Robert K. Burgess is hired as CEO of Macromedia, a position he held until 2005 ; he served as Board Chairman 1998-2005, a position he held when the company was acquired by Adobe.

* 1997: Betsey Nelson becomes Chief Financial Officer, a position she held until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe.

* 2005: Stephen Elop had been CEO for three months when Macromedia announced it would be acquired by Adobe.