Improved performance
Work faster with significant performance enhancements, including greatercontrol over pixel placement of design elements, improved file opening and saving, updated symbol operation, and quicker bitmap and vector operations.
Easy-to-use design tools for screen-based design
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. Changes remain editable at any time, and final output is optimized for display resolutions.
Intelligent integration
Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files while maintaining color matching,element fidelity, and editing capability. Export Fireworks designs into the Adobe Flash¨ software family for advanced interactivity design. Copy and paste objects between Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver software.
Produce better screen graphics, faster
Create rich, interactive screen graphics with fewer steps. Create and name slices efficiently, and then deliver superior-quality graphics optimized for the web and a wide range of devices.
Sophisticated prototyping
Design interactive layouts for websites, mobile, and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Reduce development time by exporting multipage, clickable website comps as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, and bring RIA prototypes into the Adobe AIR runtime without writing code.
Customizable and reusable assets
Jump-start your design process with the Common Library of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations. Design your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design and prototyping.
Design once for multiple deliverables
Quickly optimize designs for websites, rich media applications, and mobile devices. Edit assets from other graphics programs for wider deployment with Fireworks. Integrate client review into the design process.
Combine the power of vector and bitmap tools
Design with vector and bitmap tools together to achieve optimal imagery quickly. Enjoy pixel precision that maps to your resolution requirements, using graphics tools designed for screen-based output.
Developer productivity tools
Save development time with quick asset creation and image optimization. Also rely on Fireworks for batch processing of graphical elements.
Improved type handling
Produce exceptional type designs with the enhanced Adobe text engine. Copy and paste double-byte characters from Illustrator and Photoshop software without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path and more.
Enhanced optimization and scaling tools
Optimize graphics for a wide variety of screen types with preview, selective JPEG file compression, and comprehensive export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping.
CSS and HTML file export
Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts-with external style sheets-in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with distinct slice types, and utilize repeating images.
Macintosh
- Multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280x1024 display with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Design templates
Save frequently used designs as templates that can help jump-start future projects. Share templates with other members of your design team to improve consistency and increase productivity.
Extensibility improvements
Customize scripts for exporting, batch operations, and FXG formats with the expanded extensibility API. Increase productivity and control by specifying client-specific output formats in automated batch processing.