Flash comes with some basic drawing tools for design purposes. Some of the tools allowed for some very interesting results, but we found them to be unlike other drawing programs and somewhat cumbersome. We did like the fact that all elements were anti-aliased after being placed in a scene. Make no mistake about it, Flash is not pretending to be a drawing program. It allows the importation of several different image and sound formats.
Graphical text is another matter.
Flash 2.0 will create anti-aliased text and allow you to apply simple kerning affects. With the file sizes being so small, Flash makes including large amounts of image-based text throughout a Web page a very reasonable concept. Until Style Sheets and advances in HTML become widely used and available, Flash is a great alternative to replace unattractive browser text. Perhaps one of the best things about Flash is its use of Drag and Drop and menus to control all of its functions. Users do not have to use Lingo, the language that powers Director.