Adobe Fireworks CS5

Overview

Adobe® Fireworks® CS5 software enables you to create expressive, highly optimized graphics for the web or virtually any device — from smartphones to kiosks to embedded displays. Produce websites, user interfaces, and rich prototypes that are editable in both vector and bitmap modes.

Features

• Easy-to-use design tools for screen-based design
• Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator® files. Changes remain editable at any time, and final output is optimized for display resolutions.
• Improved performance
• Work faster with significant performance enhancements, including greater control over pixel placement of design elements, improved file opening and saving, updated symbol operation, and quicker bitmap and vector operations.
• Optimization and scaling tools
• Optimize graphics for a wide variety of screen types with preview, selective JPEG compression, and comprehensive export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping.
• CSS and HTML export
• Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts — with external style sheets — in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with distinct slice types, and utilize repeating images.
• Improved type handling
• Produce exceptional type designs with the enhanced Adobe text engine. Copy and paste double-byte characters from Illustrator and Photoshop without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path, and take advantage of many other improvements.
• Sophisticated prototyping
• Design interactive layouts for websites and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Reduce development time by exporting multipage, clickable website comps as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, and bring RIA prototypes into the Adobe AIR® runtime without writing code.
• Intelligent integration
• Import Photoshop and Illustrator files while maintaining color matching, element fidelity, and editing capability. Export Adobe Fireworks® designs into applications in the Adobe Flash® software family for advanced interactivity design. Copy and paste objects between Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver®.
• Effortless client collaboration
• Demo with two-way video communication in real-time online meetings with the Adobe ConnectNow feature in Acrobat.com, part of Adobe CS Live online services.* CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time. Also, generate clickable PDF files or interactive HTML comps for review, and create Adobe AIR prototypes to run on any platform.
• Customizable and reusable assets
• Jump-start your design process with the Common Library of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations. Design your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design and prototyping.
• Developer productivity tools
• Save time by quickly creating assets and optimizing images for use in development projects. Rely on Fireworks for batch processing of graphical elements.

System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x1024 display with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive