Rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces with Adobe Fireworks CS4 software. Create and optimise images for the web more quickly and accurately than ever before with an enhanced toolset.

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Product Variants - Fireworks CS4

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Other product variants may be available, please contact us or request a call back if you cannot see what you are looking for.

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New Features

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New in Fireworks CS4

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

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Features

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• Sophisticated prototyping enhanced - 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 Adobe Flex software with professional-quality coding.
• Superb design tools enhanced - 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.
• Optimisation and scaling tools enhanced - Optimise 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 enhanced - Import Photoshop PSD files while retaining layers, effects, and blend modes and save Adobe 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 new - Prototype layouts for RIAs in Fireworks and then export them directly to Adobe Flex, while retaining absolute positioning, styling, and professional-quality coding.
• Cross-platform support enhanced - Work how you want to work: Fireworks CS4 is available for PowerPC and Intel based Macs as well as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.
• CSS export new - 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.
• Client collaboration new - Demo in a real-time online meeting with the Adobe ConnectNow service. Generate high-fidelity PDF files or interactive HTML comps for review. Create an Adobe AIR prototype to run on any platform.
• Customisable and reusable assets enhanced - Jump-start your design process with a Common Library of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design.
• Improved performance new - Work faster and smarter with overall performance enhancements, from file opening and saving to symbol updates and intensive bitmap and vector operations.

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System Req.

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Windows

• 1 Ghz processor or faster
• Win XP SP2 or greater, Windows Vista SP1 or greater
• 0.5GB RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1GB Hard Drive Space for installation files, additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024x800 display recommended with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive

Mac

• PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
• 0.5GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024x800 display recommended with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive

Note: This product requires activation over the Internet.