Fireworks CS4

Description

Adobe Fireworks CS4 software lets you rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces and optimize images for the web more quickly and accurately than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Present your comps to clients whether they are across the hall or across the country with Adobe PDF file support and integration with the free Adobe ConnectNow online service.

Customer profiles

• Web designers—Web designers, production artists, and freelancers who work primarily with
  creating web graphics and websites.
• Interaction designers and usability testers—Interaction designers, usability architects, user research specialists, and user experience researchers/designers who develop website and application prototypes.
• Web developers—Web developers; information architects; web programmers; PHP, ASP/ASP.NET, or Adobe ColdFusion developers; IT managers; project managers; and front-end developers interested in creating Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex applications.

Sophisticated prototyping
Creatively design interactive layouts for websites and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Export website comps to Adobe Dreamweaver software as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, and bring RIA prototypes into Flex with professional-quality coding.

Superb design tools
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files. Apply effects, styles, and blend modes to add depth and character to text and symbols.

Optimization and scaling tools
Optimize graphics for virtually any scenario with preview, selective JPEG compression, and a wide range of export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping.

Intelligent integration
Import Photoshop PSD files while retaining layers, effects, and blend modes and save Fireworks PNG files in native Photoshop format. Copy and paste objects from Fireworks CS4 into Dreamweaver CS4 or Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software.

RIA authoring support
Prototype layouts for RIAs in Fireworks and then export them directly to Flex, while retaining absolute positioning, styling, and professional-quality coding.

Improved performance
Work faster and smarter with overall performance enhancements, from file opening and saving to symbol updates and intensive bitmap and vector operations.

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.

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 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.

Which Creative Suite editions is Adobe Fireworks CS4 in?

•  Web Premium
•  Web Standard
• Design Premium
• Master Collection
  

Adobe Fireworks CS4 offers new features and an enhanced toolset to help you more quickly and accurately create and optimize images for the web as well as prototype and mock up web designs and other applications. New Live Styles makes single-source changes a reality for numerous instances of a style. The new universal user interface enables you to easily switch from other Creative Suite components. And, with Adobe PDF file support, you can present high-fidelity, protected comps to your clients.

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