June 10, 2011
“Several folks within Adobe are discussing the user interfaces for our various applications, and we’d like your feedback.
Do you use After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom? Other Adobe applications?
If so, please post your comments on this forum thread comparing your experiences with the user interfaces of these applications.
Regarding the panels, palettes, workspaces, and overall UI paradigms in these applications: What do you like? What do you hate? Do you care that the applications are different in this regard? What differences do you even notice?”
This post is taken directly as-is from Todd’s blog post
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June 9, 2011
Dw CS5.5 was launched recently and there is an update released which addresses the following issues:
- There were some cases when the easy installation of Android SDK was failing.
- Spry dataset insertion was leading to a crash
- When a CSS file is linked from another css file in the html file, Live View was reporting some rendering issues.
- Windows version of Native Application Settings dialog box did not have option for Startup Screen PNG
- Code hinting was not working in some cases for some custom javascript functions
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June 7, 2011
CSS Regions is a way to layout magazine like text on web. ”CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions technology lets text flow within defined regions or around defined regions.”
CNET gives an idea with an illustration of how it appears in the browser.
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June 3, 2011
This is just to inform all the users of Adobe Fireworks CS5 that there is an update planned for its release. The update will have all the features of Fw CS5.1 and few more crashes fixed.
- One major crash/hang trend we have seen in the recent past is when saving a file which has some bitmap objects.
- Another crash is related to text tool
We will keep you posted on the exact dates of update release, which should be soon now!
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May 20, 2011
In one the recent internal events, I was lucky to share a frame with Dr John Warnock.
Sharing the frame with Dr John Warnock
Can you identify me? (Hint: Look on the right side of frame ). Click on the image for larger preview.
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Official launch of Adobe Cs5.5 suite in Mumbai on June 02, 2011. See more details of the launch theme at www.channel-technologies.com/adobecs5-5/
There is a possibility that I might be coming for this launch event.
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May 5, 2011
Grant Hinkson had created a gradients panel which is currently being used by many folks. It allows for:
- Hand tweaking the offset position
- Zooming in on the color node to define it accurately
You can download the panel here www.granthinkson.com/2007/01/23/fireworks-gradient-panel/
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May 3, 2011
Adobe Fireworks folks may know Bruce Bowman, who is now the Product Manager for BrowserLab(BL) online service for cross browser testing. His team released v1.6 of BL and details of it ca be found on the BL team blog.
Bruce was also the guest author on Dw team blog. You can read complete details about the new features of BL 1.6 at http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2011/05/exciting-news-about-adobe-browserlab.html
“We’ve added some new features to BrowserLab to improve workflows for Dreamweaver users:
- Follow local links. When testing in BrowserLab, you can now click on links in the screenshots to follow links. If the page is from your local Dreamweaver site, we will tunnel back to Dreamweaver, and Dreamweaver will send the new page and assets to the BrowserLab service. It has never been easier to test your local content in BrowserLab.
- URL History. Now, while you’re testing in BrowserLab, we keep track of your recent tests, and allow you to reload the results very quickly from cached results. If necessary, BrowserLab can re-request the page from Dreamweaver when you are testing local content.
- We’ve improved the reliability of the pairing connection between the BrowserLab panel in Dreamweaver and the BrowserLab service. You should experience far fewer drops and lost connections.
- We’ve simplified the Permission settings in the BrowserLab panel in Dreamweaver when your test request requires access to local content. Rather than the previous permission setting that was file based, we’re now setting permissions on a global basis.
- We’ve expanded our language support to include Spanish and Italian in the BrowserLab client.”
If you want to know more about BL, watch this video at http://adobe.ly/lhKALX working with Dreamweaver CS5.5
Note: BrowserLab is complimentary till April 12, 2012.
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April 28, 2011
Are you looking for custom grid sections? Fireworks extension guru John Dunning has this fabulous extension created for all grid lovers looking for all sizes and dimensions.
Grids extension by John Dunning
Get the extension here: johndunning.com/fireworks/about/Grids
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April 22, 2011
Working with FXG files export from Fireworks and running into issues specially around symbols? Following are the changes done for Fireworks CS5.1 release
- Empty text was leading to FXG not getting generated. Now the exception has been handled and similar issue fixed for CSS and Images also
- Better naming of symbols when exported as FXG.
- When symbol names have special characters in it like “$”, a new name written in .fxg file is “sym” for better usability
- Incase there are multiple symbols in your Document Library with same name (e.g Fireworks), then the FXG “Definition name” tag will now be written as <symbolName_number> e.g: names is like “Fireworks”, Fireworks_1” for multiple symbols having the name “Fireworks” Fw png Document Library.
- If a symbols has 4 states of Up, Down, Over, Over while down, all the states were visible in the FXG file previewed in Fc. Now the default is that only the “Up” state is visible
- FXG files now have font family name written in them. Earlier it was always defaulting to font faily specified in Flash Catalyst (Arial). In case there are multiple text runs in the text object, we write the font family name of the first text run only.
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