Leverage the new user interface and core functionality such as consistent text handling and the Adobe type engine. Output your Fireworks designs to the application platform of your choice: Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, or HTML. In addition, export web standards - compliant, CSS-based layouts - complete with external style sheets - to Adobe Dreamweaver.
Key Features:
Improved CSS support:
· Extract CSS code with the Properties panel and create CSS sprites from design comps. Mock up complete web pages and export layouts with external style sheets in one step.New jQuery Mobile theme skinning support:
· Create, modify, or update jQuery themes for mobile websites and apps, including CSS sprite images.Easy-to-use screen-based design tools:
· Quickly create, edit, and optimize your designs, web and mobile mock-ups, and more with easy-to-use vector and bitmap graphics tools.Intelligent integration:
· Import and export to Photoshop and Illustrator. Copy and paste from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Work faster thanks to tight Integration with other Adobe solutions.Templates and styles:
· Save time, boost productivity, and increase standardization with templates for mobile apps, web content, and designs. Add customized styles to your library.Pixel-precise rendering:
· Keep designs crisp on destination screens with advanced rendering. Vector and bitmap objects appear sharper, even when converted from one mode to the other.Common Library:
· Mock up designs and themes with templates, symbols, and design components from the Common Library.Sophisticated prototyping:
· Design interactive layouts for websites and mobile apps without writing code. Export multipage, clickable comps as CSS3-based layouts.CSS and HTML 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.Photoshop and Illustrator file import:
· Import native Illustrator and Photoshop files, maintaining color matching, element fidelity, and editing capability in Fireworks.Quicker access to color:
· Quickly switch between solid, gradient, and pattern color effects. Apply opacity control separately to Fill and Stroke dialog boxes to achieve better control and precision. Change colors more quickly with the improved color swatch.Efficient client collaboration:
· Use Fireworks to generate interactive PDF or HTML comps for review, complete with clickable links.Photoshop and Illustrator file export:
· Export from Fireworks to Photoshop and Illustrator as well as a full range of Adobe solutions.Adobe Swatch Exchange:
· Match colors precisely with designs from other Adobe graphics software via Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE). Import an ASE file from Photoshop, Illustrator, or Adobe Kuler software.Improved performance:
· Work smarter in a responsive environment with faster redraw in Mac OS. Improved memory management supports files up to four times larger on 64-bit Windows systems.Developer productivity tools:
· Save development time with batch processing. Create commands in the History panel. Hand-code using JavaScript. Create assets and quickly optimize them for multiple projects.API access:
· Access the API to generate extensions. Benefit from community-driven extensions.Easy-to-use optimization, scaling tools:
· Optimize graphics for a wide range of screen types with preview, selective JPEG compression, and export controls. Intelligently scale text, buttons, and symbols with 9-slice scaling.Requirements:
· Intel Pentium 4 processor
· 1GB of RAM
· 1GB of available hard-disk space
· 1,024x768 screen resolution
· CD-ROM drive
Limitations:
· 30 days trial