The command (by ) lets you create basic rich symbols containing multiple states in just one step and with no scripting required! The symbols created by this command can switch between displaying different states, controlled by a State menu in the Symbol Properties panel. Create Symbol From States Command Rich symbols are a, but creating them can be quite a complicated process. There are a few different ways of using the command, and generally it works very well for background patterns that repeat either horizontally or vertically. Fill With Background command (example B): Select the areas of the bitmap that you'd like to fill with background pixels and run the Fill With Background command (1) the selection will be filled from left to right - which doesn't work for a vertical gradient - so leave the selection and simply run the command again (2) the command will then switch to filling the selection from bottom to top (3). ( Note: We have covered the use of the Linked Images extension in “Optimizing The Design Workflow With Fireworks Extensions (Part 2),” section “”.) Fill With Background Extension (by ) can save you quite a bit of time, when you’re working with screen mockups.įill With Background command (example A): Select the areas of the bitmap that you'd like to fill with background pixels (1), run the Fill With Background command menu Commands → Objects → Fill With Background (2), and the selection will be automatically filled with a column of pixels copied from just to the left of the selected area (3). The Linked Images panel has many options and supports all image file formats that Fireworks can currently open, including Fireworks editable PNG (.fw.png), Photoshop PSD (.psd), Illustrator AI (.ai), EPS (.eps), and all standard “flat” image formats, such as PNG8/24/32, JPEG, GIF, BMP and TIFF. Later, when the logo has been updated, simply select the imported image and run the “Refresh” command in the panel to reimport the latest version of the source file.
Open the Linked Images panel, click the “Insert” button to select the current version of the logo (it can be in any image format, supported by Fireworks), and place it in the layout. Let’s say you are working on a website design, and the client hasn’t finalized the logo yet. (Other Adobe products in the Creative Suite support the “smart objects” feature, which lets you import objects from one app into another, and when the source object changes, the imported one updates as well.) The extension (by ) makes this process much easier. So while we’re looking for alternatives, many of us also have to, and, as every designer out there knows, Fireworks works best with extensions! (I’ll talk more about possible alternatives to Fireworks in Part 2 of this series.) Further Reading on SmashingMag.
For those of you who are searching for a similar tool, 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. Fireworks is an excellent UI design tool however, Adobe decided to it back in 2013 and (at the same time) did not offer any replacement tool to its users.
(I’ll talk more about possible alternatives to Fireworks in Part 2 of this series.).
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