What's new in Adobe Fireworks CS6 12.0.1.274
Jun 18, 2013
- Includes Mac 10.8 platform compatibility, performance and stability improvements.
- There are several usability improvements in the CSS Properties panel.
New in Adobe Fireworks CS6 12.0.0.236 (May 7, 2012)
- 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.
- 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.
- API access:
- Access the API to generate extensions. Benefit from community-driven extensions.
- Sophisticated prototyping:
- Design interactive layouts for websites and mobile apps without writing code. Export multipage, clickable comps as CSS3-based layouts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
New in Adobe Fireworks CS5 11.0.1.7 (May 4, 2012)
- Fix Crash bugs for Photoshop Live Effects, vector tools, Layer naming and editing pages, asynchronous saving, editing Symbol with blank symbol name, and others.
- Improve "Out of Memory" situation.
- Improve 8-bit color optimization.
- Fix extra addition of '_s1' slice naming issues.
- Sticky for Save as location.
- Other Bug fixes.
New in Adobe Fireworks CS4 10.0.4.1 (Apr 29, 2010)
- Fixes all known crash and data loss bugs, and in general improves stability for users running Fireworks CS4 on Mac OS X.
- The Snow Leopard crash on quit problem has also been fixed.
New in Adobe Fireworks CS4 10.0.3 (May 6, 2009)
- Greatly improves stability for users running Fireworks CS4 on both Mac OS and Windows.
- A number of issues have been addressed in this release, including bugs that caused text to shift.
- Several bugs that occurred when copying and pasting text from Microsoft Office (2007/2008) applications have also been fixed.
New in Adobe Fireworks 10.0 Build 495 CS4 (Dec 12, 2008)
- New: Adobe AIR authoring - Create your Adobe AIR prototype directly within Adobe Fireworks, ready to be deployed to HTML and CSS, Adobe Flex, or SWF. Easily convert your click-through mock-up.
- New: PDF export - Generate high-fidelity, protected PDF documents from your Fireworks comps for client communication. Help safeguard your designs with password protection — separate passwords can be created for viewing and other tasks such as printing, copying, and commenting.
- Enhanced: Customizable and reusable assets - Jump-start your design process with the Common Library, a repository of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations frequently used in web and software applications, interfaces, and websites. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design.
- New: Improved performance - Work faster and smarter with overall performance enhancements, from file opening and saving to symbol updates and intensive bitmap and vector operations.
- New user interface - Easily switch from other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components — such as Adobe Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional software — thanks to a universal user interface design.
- New: Enhanced type handling - Produce exceptional type designs with the enhanced typesetting capabilities of the Adobe text engine. Import or copy/paste double-byte characters from Illustrator (CS3 or CS4) and Photoshop (CS3 or CS4) without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path for high-impact logos.
- New: CSS export - Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets, in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with new slice types.
- Enhanced: Styles panel upgrades - Work more efficiently with the enhanced Styles panel. With the click of an icon, choose between default Fireworks styles, current document styles, or styles from other libraries. Multiple style sets can easily be accessed.
- Enhanced: Workspace improvements - Quickly place Smart Guides on your canvas for swift, accurate positioning and measurement of guides and elements. Edit symbols in place for precise symbol refinement in context with the rest of your design.
- New: Adobe Kuler integration - Access the latest color themes from the Adobe Kuler web-hosted service right in Fireworks to sample and apply to your web designs. Craft color harmonies for your own use or to upload to Kuler.
- New: Adobe ConnectNow integration - Connect client to designer for a real-time online meeting with full-screen sharing across platforms and the country with the Adobe ConnectNow service.
New in Adobe Fireworks 7.0.2.296 (Mar 4, 2008)
- New Mac and Windows OS support
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator integration
- Hierarchical layer organization
- Intelligent scaling
- Multipage support
- RIA layout prototyping
- Customizable assets
- Photoshop blend modes
- Adobe Bridge integration
- Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver integration