Adobe Fireworks CS4 Beta

Posted At : May 28, 2008 10:57 AM | Posted By : fxappdeveloper
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Adobe has released the Fireworks CS4 Beta at Adobe Labs

Adobe® Fireworks® is the choice software tool to rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and faster than ever with the enhanced toolset. Demo your design live for your client, or e-mail an interactive PDF file. Leverage the new user interface and core functionality such as consistent text handling and the Adobe type engine. Output your Fireworks designs to the application platform of your choice: Adobe AIR", Flash®, Flex®, or HTML. In addition, export web standardscompliant, CSS-based layouts - complete with external style sheets to Adobe Dreamweaver®.

The Fireworks beta is an opportunity for web designers, web architects, and developers to participate in our prerelease program. This program provides you with early access to our next release so that you can kick the tires and ensure that it meets your needs. The Fireworks beta will expire soon after the next version of Fireworks is available for purchase.

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Fireworks and Flex - Design Matters!

Posted At : May 24, 2007 11:10 PM | Posted By : fxappdeveloper
Related Categories: Adobe Fireworks

Flex is quite the addiction. I was hoping to slam dunk the Flex 2.0 TFS book in a matter of days and that is turning into a couple of weeks now. So far so good, the TFS book is very tight in presenting the basics of Flex, the code is perfect, and it is also a great starting point for those who may be new to MVC Model View Controller design patterns. My only suggestion is that the FlexGrocer store could maybe use a little bit of a cosmetic design facelift. Enter Fireworks CS3!

I have always been a big Fireworks fan and I have a tendency to laugh out loud when people compare it to Photoshop. Oddly enough I learned Fireworks quite some time ago by accidentally booking myself into a hands-on training class thinking I was taking a Flash 2.0 beginner course. I purchased the Flash/Fireworks 2.0 web bundle and I was not even educated enough to know the difference in the two software products. As it turns out, that was a valuable mistake that empowered me with the knowledge of a great software tool that has not only survived the jump from Macromedia to Adobe, but has hit the new CS3 version scene with a vengeance.

So, what does that have to do with Flex 2.0? The latest CS3 release has some great new features for prototyping  your Flex applications with the ability to export Flex components and images as MXML. At this point I could stay up all night writing a tutorial to show you how to do this, ... but I would rather get some sleep, so I will point you right along to a great free tutorial by Trevor McCauley - a technical support engineer at Adobe Systems. Thanks Trevor ...

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