Adobe Fire Works CS8 2018 Full Version
Everardo Laboy
Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) was a bitmap and vector graphics editor, which Adobe acquired in 2005. Fireworks was made for web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Its features included slices, which are segments of an image that are converted to HTML elements, and the ability to add hotspots, which are segments of an image that are converted to hyperlinks. It was designed to integrate with other Adobe products such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. It was available as either a standalone product or bundled with Adobe Creative Suite. Older versions were bundled with Macromedia Studio. Adobe discontinued Fireworks in 2013, citing the increasing overlap in functionality with its other products such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Edge.[1]
Fireworks' user interface is consistent with the rest of Adobe Creative Suite, similar to that of Adobe Photoshop. On macOS, it is possible to display the application in multiple document interface mode or the standard viewing mode where all toolbars float freely on the screen.
Fireworks support guides, horizontal or vertical lines that act like a real-world ruler to help drawing, content placement and image composition. A user may place one or more guides on the image at any time and use it as a visual aid. For instance a guide is useful when a piece of text must be placed in line with another graphical item. Additionally, the user may enable the snap feature of the Fireworks, which causes objects (pieces of image, text or layers) drag to the vicinity of a guide to snap to it.
The smart guides however, are not placed by users. They are areas of the image that may interest the user such as the image boundaries, middle of the image or general boundaries of another object. When a user drags an object, Fireworks tries to guess what the user intends to do with the object and draws temporary visual and placement aids. This feature was added with the release of CS4.[2]
Reusable elements can be designated as symbols and placed at multiple pages or on the same page. When the master symbol is edited, Fireworks propagates the change to all instances of that symbol.
Fireworks were created specifically for web production.[3] Since not every user may be in possession of a fast Internet connection, it is in the best interest of the web developers to optimize the size of their digital contents. In terms of image compression, Fireworks has a better compression rate than Photoshop with JPEG, PNG and GIF images.[4]
Fireworks can export images to multiple file formats including PNG, JPEG, GIF, Animated GIF, TIFF, SWF, BMP, WBMP and PDF. It can also export to SVG (with the help of a free Export extension[5]) and FXG 2.0. Fireworks can export to HTML by converting slices to HTML elements.
4/28/10 This update to Adobe Fireworks CS4 software fixes all known crash and data loss bugs, and in general improves stability for users running Fireworks CS4 on Mac OS X. The Snow Leopard crash on quit problem has also been fixed. We recommend that all Fireworks CS4 Mac users install this updater.
5/06/09 This update to Adobe Fireworks CS4 software greatly improves stability for users running Fireworks CS4 on both Mac OS and Windows. A number of issues have been addressed in this release, including bugs that caused text to shift. Several bugs that occurred when copying and pasting text from Microsoft Office (2007/2008) applications have also been fixed. Full ReleaseNotes are available.
5/06/09 This update for Fireworks CS4 supports the release of Adobe AIR 1.5, the cross-operating system runtime that allows you to deliver personal, interactive experiences to the desktop. Fireworks CS4 adds the capability for users to create and share the design and functionality of an AIR application before effort is spent on coding.
3/02/04 This product updater resolves issues identified in Fireworks MX2004. The updater fixes bugs in all language versions of Fireworks MX 2004. All users runningFireworks MX 2004 7.0 or 7.0.1 may apply this updater, regardless of location or operatingsystem. This updater will update Fireworks MX 2004 to version 7.0.2. Full ReleaseNotes are available.
The Fireworks 4.0.2 updater fixes several problems found with Fireworks 4 after its release.It also includes a fix for a bug in the batch processing feature that produces an error ifyou try to perform a batch process using Scale to Size and set either the height or widthto Variable. To resolve this problem, download and run the installer. To use the updater,you must first purchase and install a full version of Fireworks 4.
Then there's always a dual boot system if you don't have the "newest" Apple models with firmware lockouts. You can install an OS that works with CS5 and a newer OS. Then merely boot between them as needed on the same Mac or use a virtual machine through something like Parallels Desktop. It inevitably comes down to what works and is easiest for you to use.
If I wanted to dump Fireworks for something newer... I'd be exploring Sketch. I'll point out that I currently don't use Sketch, but from what I've seen it has the highest potential to fill the gaps I would need filled where web content is concerned if Adobe crashed and burned tomorrow. But then, I have CS6 and a system that runs those applications.. so who cares if Adobe crashes and burns. :)
Adobe Fireworks was wonderful, but there is a smoothness with Affinity Designer I love. I modified the "File / Export" macro to match Fireworks (shift command X) and have been completely happy with Affinity Designer.
The only reason I pay for my creative cloud license is for Adobe Fireworks. Like me, other UX professionals use Fireworks to design Wireframes, Mockups, Prototypes using Fireworks. It seems like, Adobe is totally disconnected with the customer, and they dont really get whats the purpose of Fireworks!!! This is terrible adobe, Fireworks is the best tool for Web and Interface design, and it does it fast and quick!!!
As of May 2013, Adobe is no longer actively developing Fireworks. However, you can still install a previous version from within the Creative Cloud desktop app by checking "Show Older Apps" under Preferences > Apps.
For a detailed guide, please see this page: -cloud/kb/why-has-adobe-stopped-developing-my-app-.html
I completely agree. I'm an Lead UI/UX guru and with Fireworks I get my Web and Mobile work done fast and beautifully for large scale orgnization. Business teams understand interactions quickly because of Fireworks' Pages with hotspot capabilities. Fireworks is a simple tool packed with great, really great useful and only the most needed features. And there are plugins for various other feature specific capabilities.
Adobe is not going to continue to develop it - the way web pages are built nowadays do not fit in the slice paradigm Fireworks still uses, and that is probably why they are stumbling in the dark trying to come up with fumbled alternatives like Muse and Edge. Photoshop is still quite limited for this type of work.
From my point of view Adobe missed the point. Being able to have a vector and raster tool is what Fireworks provides. I think Adobe should at least integrate it to Photoshop. I will try Xara just in case.
Xara does not support the PNG layering that Fireworks uses very clean and easy. Layering, cutting out images and making transparencies, color pallette ease of use, the list goes on. As for me I have 1000s of images that use its layered PNG. So I will continue to use Fireworks and whip out graphics fast and easy for web work. It's a workhorse and nothing compares and the statement Macromedia was going to drop it, that guy was dropped on his head. I'll keep using it. For an alternative Affinity Designer is really nice.
I must agree with the sentiments here. I have used Fireworks for years because of it's simple design and ability to get things done quickly with both vector and bitmap images. In addition being able to quickly output to html and slice images for let's say an email campaign (or a website) was very valuable and simple without all the overhead (or price) of a photoshop/illustrator. It does have a niche and now that I have changed jobs I no longer have a license and want to purchase one. Guess what it's not available any longer even though I used the trial version for the last few weeks to get my feet wet again. Is there a way I can purchase the last Mac version for my home use?
As it was already said, it was developed by Macromedia before Adobe bought it. Macromedia had in mind to provide a web-oriented tool without the overhead Photoshop provided. In those days Photoshop was (and maybe still is) the best image processor for printing. It could convert CMYK to RGB and so on. Fireworks was THE tool for screen.designers who work with lights instead of colors. Adobe tried to integrate web-components into Photoshop which makes it a massive dinosaur, totally unusable for screen-developers like me. I still use Fireworks MX from Macromedia. You would not believe it: It still works like a charm, although I miss some more sophisticated developments (css3, html5 etc...)
Really a shame... yes I lost my box with the serial number. Fireworks is awesome. Mostly I use Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo... but still jump back to Fireworks for the many things. I will not buy Adobe products... they will just shut it down or make it so complicated it's worthless. Those Indian developers are good and have a lot of free time, one of them could make a lot of money by reproducing it "FireReborn" hahahha
- Photopea - can open layered Fireworks PNGs
- Firework commands for batch converting FW PNGs to other formas like PSD (obviously you need Fireworks)
- Fireworks offline installer can be downloaded here *IMPORTANT* - make sure you read the instruction for downloading at the top of page - these are links to genuine Adobe installers