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sickens me how unloved Fireworks is.

by pclark 18y ago

unalone 18y ago
Maybe it does good things, but the interface is awful.
thinkzig 18y ago
Agreed. I have a copy of Fireworks 4 (back when it was Macromedia Fireworks) that I still use to this day to do basic graphics and picture clean-up stuff. I'm not a graphic artist by trade - something we should all be thankful for :) - but it gets the job done for just about everything I need to do.
bradgessler 18y ago
Ditto. I remembered the day that Adobe bought Macromedia. My first thought was, "F#CK! They're going to turn Fireworks in to a piece of crap". Sure enough, they turned it into a piece of crap. So much for competition!
- jasonkester 18y ago
  I'm still nostalgic for Cold Fusion Studio 4. That was even back before Macromedia bought Allaire, but still today it would rank as the second best development environment for HTML and Javascript (after VS.NET, but only because it has a good debugger to offset its lame HTML & JS intellisense). Then they folded it into Dreamweaver and ruined it completely by version 5.
  - gb 18y ago
    I used to use that for all my development too and thought it was great at the time. I even wrestled with it's crazy syntax highlighter to get ActionScript colour coding working. The lack of Unicode support became a bit of a problem for me towards the end though.
alabut 18y ago
I love Fireworks, fucking hate CS4. I've been using FW since version 4, from everything from wireframes to full polished design, and I have never seen this much bugginess on any production software. The worst part of it is that the most persistent bugginess is the text selection, which is half of what I do when designing.
gb 18y ago
Probably because there is no reason for it to exist if you can use Photoshop... I'm surprised there are that many posts about FW actually, I don't know anyone who uses it and I tend not to install it even.
- johns 18y ago
  For laying out web sites, Fireworks is far superior to Photoshop. There's a drastic difference in methodologies. Fireworks thinks in shapes, Photoshop in pixels.
  - gb 18y ago
    I'm not sure I see the distinction, especially with smart objects and vectors in Photoshop these days.
johns 18y ago
I was thinking of upgrading, but based on this thread I guess I'll be holding on to Fireworks 8 for now. I love Fireworks and I hope they find it in their hearts to fix it.

sickens me how unloved Fireworks is.

by pclark 18y ago

sickens me how unloved Fireworks is.

unalone 18y ago

Maybe it does good things, but the interface is awful.

thinkzig 18y ago

Agreed. I have a copy of Fireworks 4 (back when it was Macromedia Fireworks) that I still use to this day to do basic graphics and picture clean-up stuff. I'm not a graphic artist by trade - something we should all be thankful for :) - but it gets the job done for just about everything I need to do.

bradgessler 18y ago

Ditto. I remembered the day that Adobe bought Macromedia. My first thought was, "F#CK! They're going to turn Fireworks in to a piece of crap". Sure enough, they turned it into a piece of crap. So much for competition!

jasonkester 18y ago
I'm still nostalgic for Cold Fusion Studio 4. That was even back before Macromedia bought Allaire, but still today it would rank as the second best development environment for HTML and Javascript (after VS.NET, but only because it has a good debugger to offset its lame HTML & JS intellisense). Then they folded it into Dreamweaver and ruined it completely by version 5.
- gb 18y ago
  I used to use that for all my development too and thought it was great at the time. I even wrestled with it's crazy syntax highlighter to get ActionScript colour coding working. The lack of Unicode support became a bit of a problem for me towards the end though.

alabut 18y ago

I love Fireworks, fucking hate CS4. I've been using FW since version 4, from everything from wireframes to full polished design, and I have never seen this much bugginess on any production software. The worst part of it is that the most persistent bugginess is the text selection, which is half of what I do when designing.

gb 18y ago

Probably because there is no reason for it to exist if you can use Photoshop... I'm surprised there are that many posts about FW actually, I don't know anyone who uses it and I tend not to install it even.

johns 18y ago
For laying out web sites, Fireworks is far superior to Photoshop. There's a drastic difference in methodologies. Fireworks thinks in shapes, Photoshop in pixels.
- gb 18y ago
  I'm not sure I see the distinction, especially with smart objects and vectors in Photoshop these days.

johns 18y ago

I was thinking of upgrading, but based on this thread I guess I'll be holding on to Fireworks 8 for now. I love Fireworks and I hope they find it in their hearts to fix it.