…and overall, the reviews are quite positive up to now. Adobe Creative Suite 5 Brings Sexy Back, There are already some reviews/articles to be found online, about Fireworks CS5:
Not only this - currently the Fireworks Team also works on a new bugfix patch for version CS4, which will also improve the older version of Fireworks. better integration with Flash Catalyst, Illustrator and Photoshop īruce Bowman, the Product Manager for Fireworks, already announced the new Fireworks version, and then also published a detailed article on the new Fireworks features and improvements (if you’re wondering if you should make the switch to CS5 - read the article - it will answer your questions thoroughly!). possibility to create and open new files from pre-built templates (plus, you can now create your own templates and share them in a small team) new Snap-to-Pixel option (just apply ctrl/cmd+K shortcut to any object or group of objects that may appear blurry on the canvas, as a result of some complex transformation, and the blurriness is gone!) the PI panel is also much more powerful now, with new Stroke options built-in, and a new “lock proportions” option for modifying any object on the canvas
the PI (Property Inspector) panel “refresh” times have been reduced, and now the PI works much faster (this applies especially to the Windows version of Fireworks) gradients in Fireworks CS5 (linear and radial types) now have also a dithering option, which fixes any possible “banding” issues importing of vector (and bitmap) objects from Illustrator CS5/Photoshop CS5 is almost perfect the text engine has some new features that will allow you to work with text even easier and faster than before (multi-selection of words in one text block, “select similar” option, better text undo-redo, and many other tiny improvements)
ase color swatches are now supported by Fireworks (this is Adobe Swatch Exchange format, which is supported by Photoshop and Illustrator, too) the tools in version CS5 are almost the same, but now you can also create/edit Compound Shapes - special groups of vector objects that give you even more creative vector power It works equally well under latest MacOS X versions, as well as under Windows XP/Vista/7. This time, the Fireworks version is much better than the previous one (CS4), and I think the Fireworks Team has done a fantastic job!įireworks CS5 is fast, stable, with a minimum of bugs, it starts fast, it works fast, and doesn’t require so much memory. …and I recommend it to you with all my heart!