Adobe Fireworks

At AdobeMAX 2011 Keynote, Fireworks CSS3 Mobile Pack is announced.

This mobile pack contains following feature.

• CSS Properties panel
  - Extract your design comp to CSS code
•  jQuery Mobile theme skinnig feature
  - Creative your owm jQuey swatch, include custom icons, or modify default theme

Video: Using CSS3 Mobile Pack

You can download this extension from Adobe Labs

Enjoy!

Creative Suite CS5.5 will include Fireworks CS5.1, which is a minor update from Fireworks CS5.0.

In addition, we will be releasing a patch for Fireworks CS5.0 users.  This patch will include all of the bug fixes that are going into CS5.1.  It will not, however, include the subscription engine that will be part of CS5.1, so it will not fully upgrade CS5.0 to CS5.1. To identify the builds:

n  The full CS5.1 internal build number will be 11.1.

n  After applying the patch to CS5.0 the internal build number will be 11.0.1.

The following bug fixes will be included in the patch and the Fireworks CS5.1 release.
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Major crash bug fixes
Thank you for using the crash reporter to submit crash problems. Our developers figured out the root cause of many crashes and fixed a variety of unexpected crash bugs when using the following functions and APIs.

• PS Live Effects area
• Vector tool
• Layer naming, editing in multiple pages
• Undo/redo name change
• Find and replace
• Saving files
• Opening legacy Fireworks 8 file
• Win API related changes for 64bit

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Color optimization improvement
We’ve heard customers’ complaints about the color banding issue of GIF, PNG8, JPEG optimization, and now we have improved color optimization to enable multiple bit depth algorithms for color optimization.

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Out of memory prevention on Win
Please be aware of 32bit application limitations. Since Fireworks is 32bit application, it is limited to accessing up to 2GB of RAM on Windows. As RAM prices have dropped, you might have a higher-end machine loaded with 8GB or more of RAM, but Fireworks cannot access anything but the first 2GB. Instead of popping up an out of memory dialog box, and risk losing data,  we’ve modified the behavior to bring up a “Low memory” warning dialog box so you can save and close the document, and delete the old history to free up memory. You may also assign a keyboard shortcut to bring up the dialog box to delete the history and close the document too.

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Enable Save on Crash on Mac
When an application crash occurs on the Mac platform, Fireworks saves the most recent working file onto the desktop to help recover the file.

Improvements:
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Sticky Save As… location
Fireworks used to keep the same file location as the opened file when the user chose “Save as…”. Fireworks CS5.1 will respect the last saved location.
Choosing export slice from the context menu also preserves the last saved location.

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AIR SDK update
We replaced the AIR 2.0 SDK with AIR 2.5.1 SDK for creation of AIR applications in Fireworks.

More Bug Fixes
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FXG related bug fix

• Buttons were not appearing properly in Flash Catalyst after opening a .fxg file that contains buttons.
• FXG Symbols (button, graphic, and Animation) with same symbol ID were not being exported properly.
• RichText tags in exported FXG were[JGW1] required to have a fontFamily attribute.
• Fireworks threw an error while exporting a FXG that contained text with missing fonts or legacy text.
• When an empty text object with the cursor on it is present, Fireworks threw an error while exporting to FXG.

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Image preview now preserves the settings done through “Save as…”  options dialog box.

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Fireworks no longer crashes when you try to edit a symbol with a blank name.

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When an empty text object with the cursor on it is present, Fireworks threw an error while exporting to CSS and Images

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When exporting an image, nearly white objects on a white background turned transparent.

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File overwriting warning didn’t pop up for “images” when exporting as HTML and images.

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The focus was not on the file name in the Windows Export dialog box, and the keyboard could not be used in that dialog box.

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Regards,

Takashi Morifusa
Fireworks Sr. Product Manager

Here is a new article from Dee Sadler about “Design 101 for developers”
Adobe Edge:  January 2011 Article

This is good article who is not familiar with Fireworks to know the basic idea of what you can do with Fireworks.

It was an exciting “Ask A Pro” Web seminar for Fireworks CS5.
Here is the recorded session video archive in case you missed.
http://asib.na3.acrobat.com/p98425757/
Great tips and lots of Q&A in the Chat pod.

Another good news! David wrote article is available in Developers Central.
Title: Turning a design into HTML and CSS using the Fireworks to Dreamweaver workflow
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/turning_design_into_html_and_css_pt1.html

Enjoy!

Fireworks team blog came back with great event notice!

Dr. David M Houge

Join Ask a CS Pro: Fireworks CS5 session with David M. Hogue on Wed, Oct 20th at 13:00 – 14:00 PDT.
This is free online session via Adobe Connect. You can join from this link:
http://asib.na3.acrobat.com/askcspro/

Fireworks is an important tool in the daily workflow of many designers and developers, but many of us do not take advantage of all of the powerful features available. If you are new to Fireworks, just upgraded from an older version, a developer who uses it for image slicing and optimization, or a designer who uses other tools and wants to know what Fireworks is all about, join us for an interactive online discussion where we will highlight some of the new features and lesser known features of Fireworks. We will also show some techniques for using Fireworks effectively and efficiently, and there will be a Q&A session to share information, hints, and tips.

Continue reading…

We’ve posted a new mobile workflows article on the Adobe Developer Connection featuring Fireworks CS5 and Adobe Device Central. Liz Myers, mobile and web-based application specialist, walks you through some very cool techniques for previewing your work on mobile devices that will inspire you to try it yourself. Her article is full of screen shots and includes 3 video demos.
Update: Jim Babbage (@JimBabbage), has written a new free CMX article about FXG 2.0 support in Fireworks CS5, with good general information on FXG workflows.
It is still early, but the CS5 reviews are beginning to trickle in, and I wanted to share a couple of new reviews that we’ve seen for Fireworks CS5:
MacWorld magazine recently completed their review of Adobe Fireworks CS5, awarding it 4.5 mice! Thanks MacWorld!
Smashing Magazine muses over whether it is worth switching to Fireworks CS5. Spolier – it is.
Have you tried Fireworks CS5 yet? If not, what are you waiting for?

Adobe Fireworks CS5 is now shipping!
A fully functioning free 30-day Trial can be downloaded from Adobe.com today. English is available now, French and German will be available on May 6, and the other European languages on May 10. Japanese Trials will be available on May 27.
For an in-depth look at Fireworks CS5, take a look at this article on the Fireworks Developer Center, which covers the new features and many improvements that make this the best version of Fireworks ever!
Fireworks CS5 is also included in these Suites:

• Web Premium CS5
• Design Premium CS5
• Master Collection CS5

The Fireworks CS4 10.0.4 Update for Mac OS X is now available. You can get it through the Adobe Update Manager or download it from the Adobe Support website.
This Updater is for Mac only, and fixes all known critical bugs. There is no Windows 10.0.4 updater, because there are no known critical bugs (critical = security, crash or data loss).
The team really would have liked to have gotten this Updater out to you sooner, but it just wasn’t possible before now.

There are some new resources that we want to share that will provide you with more information on Fireworks CS5.
The Fire on the Bay user group meeting was held on April 20 at the Adobe office in San Francisco, and we did a demo of Fireworks CS5. You can now watch the Adobe Connect recording.
An in-depth article on what is new in Fireworks CS5 is live on the Adobe Developer Center.
And Fireworks guru Jim Babbage has his new Fireworks CS5 training videos live on Lynda.com.
Bruce

The Fireworks team is very excited to announce Adobe Fireworks CS5 today! This is going to be a great version of Fireworks, with many improvements that will appeal to a broad range of Fireworks users.
We listened to our users, and Fireworks CS5 is packed with features and improvements that you requested. We prioritized quality – stability, performance and polish – above all else for this version, and we made sure it is compatible and runs great on Windows 7 and Apple’s Snow Leopard OSes.
For an in-depth look at Fireworks CS5, see this new Adobe Developer Center article. (goes live on Monday April 12)
We hope you like what you see, and love using this new version!
If you’re interested in pre-ordering CS5, check these links:
Fireworks CS5: http://bit.ly/buycs5FW_t
Web Premium CS5: http://bit.ly/buycs5WP_b
Master Collection CS5: http://bit.ly/buycs5MC_b