The Lorem Ipsum auto shape makes inserting any amount of dummy text a breeze.
When designers want to display actual formatted text before the final content is decided upon, they often use some form of "lorem ipsum" as a placeholder. The Create Symbol From States command lets you create basic rich symbols containing multiple states in just one step with no scripting. Rich symbols are a powerful feature of Fireworks, but creating them is a fairly complicated process.
Instead of writing and running an entire command, you can simply type code snippets into a panel and immediately see the output. The Fireworks Console simplifies the process of learning the JavaScript API considerably.
It then displays the horizontal or vertical space between each element in a series of text fields, which you can edit to easily adjust the spacing. When you select some elements, the panel figures out if they're mostly horizontal or mostly vertical. The Spacer panel makes it easy to arrange rows or columns of elements by adjusting the spacing between them. The SVG extension makes it possible to use these images in your Fireworks documents by parsing the XML and recreating the vectors using Fireworks elements. With increasing support for and SVG across browsers, many people have been creating vector images in the SVG format.
The extension can update just the selected elements or every text variable in the document. This makes it possible to easily update a text label that displays, say, the current name of the page it's on, or the name of a product you're designing. The Text Variables extension enables you to include variables in text elements that can then be automatically updated. The Generate Web Assets command makes exporting different parts of your document a breeze. And if the elements overlap, the slices won't output cleanly. While you can easily export slices from a mockup, it's a pain to create an individual slice for each element that you want to export. The Dynamic Symbols panel makes creating rich symbols much simpler and more efficient. You also end up with a lot of repetitive code to set the default symbol properties and to respond to changes to them. Each time you make a change, you need to refresh the Common Library panel, reopen the folder that contains the symbol, drag another instance of the symbol into your document and then test it. more.Ĭreating the JavaScript code for a rich symbol is a tedious process, even if you're familiar with JS. All of the elements on the first state of the current page will appear in Reflow with more or less the same size, position, color, etc. The Edge Reflow extension lets you export a Fireworks layout to Edge Reflow, where you can test the responsiveness of the design. The URL to the image is automatically added to your tweet.
Just enter a short message, click Tweet, and a flattened copy of your image will be posted to Twitter. TweetFire lets you easily tweet the image you're currently working on, without ever leaving Fireworks. The "Apply Export Settings to All Pages" command takes the export settings on the current page and applies them to all pages in the document. The "Import Files into Pages" command is useful for combining several existing files as pages in a new document. The "Distribute Layers to Pages" command does the same for top-level layers. The "Adjust Page Size" command lets you make relative adjustments to the size of multiple pages at once, such as moving the left and right sides in by 10px on each page. The "New Page" dialog makes it easy to create a new page while simultaneously changing its size or background color and giving it a name. The commands in this extension make working with pages in Fireworks more efficient and convenient. To accept it without having to click repeatedly. Press the spacebar when each extension's confirmation dialog appears in order
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And if you're an extension developer yourself, some of them will help you build your own commands and Flash panels. They won't help you make better-looking pictures rather, they'll help you use Fireworks more efficiently. These Adobe Fireworks extensions are mainly productivity tools.