Fireworks MX

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000066EUH
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 29, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,895 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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  #76 in	Software > Web Development > Web Effects > Animation

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Create, optimize, and export interactive graphics in a single Web-centric environment using Macromedia Fireworks MX. Fireworks offers all the tools to make everything from simple graphic buttons to sophisticated rollover effects and pop-up menus. Support for major file formats and HTML standards and integration with popular HTML editors allow users to comfortably use Fireworks MX in any work environment.

The workspace offers bitmap editing, precise text control, automation, and extensibility, allowing for rapid production and easy updates. Broad support for file formats, new standards like XHTML, and Section 508 compliance ensure that output matches current and future needs.

Share files across graphics applications, including Macromedia Flash, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. Create vector graphics for Flash, export SWF files, and open graphics directly from within Flash. Open, edit, and export Photoshop graphics while retaining layers, masks, and text properties. Fireworks also integrates seamlessly with such editors as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Admit you have a problem!, October 18, 2002

By	Michael S. Boardley (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...Fireworks is the ONLY CHOICE for the web design professional. ...if you want FLEXABLE, EASY TO EDIT, web graphics ...then there truly is no other choice. ... Fireworks is the best web graphics tool I have ever used!"...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They just keep getting better..., September 4, 2002

By	Bruce Pierson (Bozeman, MT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One would think that Macromedia would run out of ideas. Their past software is so good (Fireworks 4, Flash 5, etc.) that I thought there was little room for improvement. I was wrong. The new, consistent UI across applications is simply the best I have ever seen, better even than Microsoft in some of its new products such as Visio 2002.

The interface alone is worth the upgrade price because of the efficiencies it brings, but there is much more here. Being more of a vector guy, I don't use most of the raster tools, but there are some great new ones such as smudge, dodge and burn, etc. The polygon slice tool makes short work of sophisticated rollover diagrams.

I would strongly recommend getting on the Macromedia bandwagon. With cross-browser problems still raging (although NS 7.0 goes a long way to help), I believe Flash is simply going to take over the Internet, period. Fireworks MX is the best way to build your Flash graphics.

Get it!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Customer Support, August 1, 2002

By A Customer

Fireworks is powerful. However, I encountered some bugs in the extensibility API--something most users won't ever encounter. The customer support department has ignored this bug since version 3, and they wont respond to my requests for assistance. I purchased version 4 just before MX came out, and the upgrade seems too costly--especially since I recently purchased version 4. They won't tell me if the bug is fixed in MX, so I assume it isn't. Again, while this won't affect most users, their lack of responsiveness is troubling.