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I've always been upset about the fact that Adobe abandoned Fireworks. Fireworks always made sense to me when I had to cobble together graphics for my websites o

I've always been upset about the fact that Adobe abandoned Fireworks. Fireworks always made sense to me when I had to cobble together graphics for my websites or apps. Adobe behaves like a company not interested in expanding their market, but just simply doubling down on it's existing cash cows until the day they become irrelevant.

samwillis 8y ago
Completely agree, it was the perfect mix of vector and bitmap graphics!
nexensis 8y ago
Same here - Illustrator absorbed a lot of Fireworks features and offers decent optimised JPG/PNG/SVG exports for web, but over the last few years it's become excruciatingly slow while not really adding any new functionality. Even with a 24 thread CPU and 1080Ti it drops frames constantly, even when the document contains just a single circle. It regularly hangs for a second or two when zooming or adding new shapes or text to the document. After Effects & Premiere are even slower for video editing and are the cause of much swearing in our office. If Sketch and Figma can smoothly display 100+ populated screens with plenty of functionality then more power to them, we're definitely due competition in the graphics & video market.
tootie 8y ago
That's totally untrue. Adobe have made a humongous play into cloud/enterprise with acquisitions of digital marketing companies like Omniture and Day. They are now a very entrenched enterprise software vendor with Fortune 500s and that's way outside their creative offering. Look Adobe Marketing Cloud.
stupidbird 8y ago
Honestly they should have abandoned it earlier. Instead of building monoliths of legacy features/code they need to build full-on replacements every 5-10 years. I can't believe they're still actively developing Dreamweaver to this day. OF course, there's still not a replacement for Fireworks because they just rolled it into one of their other legacy products. XD is still not great.

samwillis 8y ago

Completely agree, it was the perfect mix of vector and bitmap graphics!

nexensis 8y ago

Same here - Illustrator absorbed a lot of Fireworks features and offers decent optimised JPG/PNG/SVG exports for web, but over the last few years it's become excruciatingly slow while not really adding any new functionality. Even with a 24 thread CPU and 1080Ti it drops frames constantly, even when the document contains just a single circle. It regularly hangs for a second or two when zooming or adding new shapes or text to the document. After Effects & Premiere are even slower for video editing and are the cause of much swearing in our office. If Sketch and Figma can smoothly display 100+ populated screens with plenty of functionality then more power to them, we're definitely due competition in the graphics & video market.

tootie 8y ago

That's totally untrue. Adobe have made a humongous play into cloud/enterprise with acquisitions of digital marketing companies like Omniture and Day. They are now a very entrenched enterprise software vendor with Fortune 500s and that's way outside their creative offering. Look Adobe Marketing Cloud.

stupidbird 8y ago

Honestly they should have abandoned it earlier. Instead of building monoliths of legacy features/code they need to build full-on replacements every 5-10 years. I can't believe they're still actively developing Dreamweaver to this day. OF course, there's still not a replacement for Fireworks because they just rolled it into one of their other legacy products. XD is still not great.