What's new in Fireworks CS4

Work faster, smarter with Fireworks overall performance enhancements from file open and save, to symbol update and intensive bitmap and vector operations.

Switch from other Creative Suite applications—like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash—with the ease and familiarity of universal user interface design.

Design complete Web pages in Fireworks’ robust graphic environment and then export web standards compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets in one step. Start with one of the six most common layouts and integrate foreground and background graphics with automatic margin and padding detection. Drop HTML rich symbols on your Fireworks layouts to specify headings, links, and form properties for precise CSS control.

Generate high-fidelity, interactive, secure PDF documents from your Fireworks design comps for enhanced client communication.

Produce superior type designs with the enhanced typesetting capabilities of the Adobe Type Engine, familiar to users of Photoshop and Illustrator, and now in Fireworks. Import or copy/paste double-byte characters from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path for high impact text logos.

Take a Fireworks object or text with professionally designed styles or your own custom collection. Update applied effects, colors, and text attributes by modifying a single style source.

Smart Guides for swift, accurate positioning and measurement of guides and elements on the canvas: heads-up display lets you know where you are on the canvas as you drag guides in place. In-place symbol editing for precise symbol refinement in context with the rest of your design; expansive 9-slice scaling tool now applies to any object on the canvas, not just symbols.

Create your Adobe AIR prototype directly within Fireworks as a click-through mock-up, ready to be deployed to HTML and CSS, Flex, or SWF.