So while we’re looking for alternatives, many of us also have to continue to use Fireworks, and, as every designer out there knows, Fireworks works best with extensions! This article features some of the most useful (and free) Fireworks extensions that will help you work faster and be more effective with Fireworks I have tested many of them myself, to be sure that they work flawlessly. The Power of Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It?.The Present And Future Of Adobe Fireworks.Switching From Adobe Fireworks To Sketch: Ten Tips And Tricks.(I’ll talk more about possible alternatives to Fireworks in Part 2 of this series.) Further Reading on SmashingMag: (I’ll talk more about possible alternatives to Fireworks in Part 2 of this series.)įor those of you who are searching for a similar tool, Sketch 3.0 seems to be a pretty good alternative to Fireworks, but it’s still not quite there yet it’s Mac-only, and while its vector tools are very good and it now has artboards, pages, symbols and styles, it lacks a few of the basic features available in Fireworks.
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Nevertheless, since Fireworks runs fine today on the latest Mac OS X and Windows OS, and since it still offers a solid UI-design feature set, many designers continue to use it and rely on it daily.įor those of you who are searching for a similar tool, Sketch 3.0 seems to be a pretty good alternative to Fireworks, but it’s still not quite there yet it’s Mac-only, and while its vector tools are very good and it now has artboards, pages, symbols and styles, it lacks a few of the basic features available in Fireworks. 0.8.0 Initial release.Fireworks is an excellent UI design tool however, Adobe decided to feature-freeze it back in 2013 and (at the same time) did not offer any replacement tool to its users. 0.9.0 Create temp files in the system's temp directory to avoid UAC problems on Vista. Added command for creating 64圆4 states in the favicon. Release history 1.0.0 Finally got the Mac version of png2ico working. And thanks to Bruce Bowman for lending me a Mac to get the extension working on OS X. Thanks also to Ale Muñoz at Bomber Studios for compiling a universal binary of png2ico for the Mac. Thanks to Matthias Benkmann for creating the png2ico utility that this command uses to create the favicon. It may export the favicon in earlier versions, but the Fireworks app will likely become unresponsive, requiring a force quit. On the Mac, this extension works reliably only in Fireworks CS5 or later. The file will be called "favicon.ico" if a favicon file already exists in the folder, the command will confirm that you want to overwrite it. After you click the Select button, the document will be exported to the selected folder in favicon format. This will default to the last place you exported the file to, or the last place you saved it. When you run the Export as Favicon command, it will ask you to select the folder where the favicon should be created. Larger sizes (128x128, 256x256, etc.) are also supported, but adding these creates a favicon file that's unnecessarily large for a webpage icon. The New Favicon - 16X16, 32X32 and 64X64 command will do the same thing, but adds a 64px by 64px page. The easiest way to create this is with the New Favicon - 16X16 and 32X32 command, which will create a new document with the appropriately sized pages. If you want to create a favicon that also contains a 32px version of the icon, the document must have a second page with a size of 32px by 32px. You can create a document of this size with the New Favicon - 16X16 command. The Export as Favicon command creates a favicon file from the current document, which must be 16px by 16px.