Rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces with Adobe
Fireworks CS4 software. Create and optimize images for the web more
quickly and accurately than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Adobe
Fireworks CS4 software brings web designers improved Live Styles, Smart Guides,
and CSS export. Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR application prototyping are fully
supported, along with high-fidelity Adobe PDF output and Adobe ConnectNow live
meetings.

Rapidly prototype and design for the web:

• Exporting Adobe PDF files is effortless
  Generate
  high-fidelity PDF documents from your Fireworks design comps to improve
  communication with your clients.

• Superb design tools are at your fingertips
  Apply
  lighting and shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new
  Adobe Photoshop blend modes, to add depth and character to text and symbols.

• Education discounts are available
  As a student or
  educator, you qualify for education pricing. See the full list of products
  available for purchase.

KEY FEATURES:

• Sophisticated prototyping
  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
  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.
  

• Optimization and scaling tools
  Optimize 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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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.
  

• Customizable and reusable assets
  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
  Work faster and smarter with
  overall performance enhancements, from file opening and saving to symbol
  updates and intensive bitmap and vector operations.
  

NEW FEATURES:

• 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
  
  

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

• New user interface
  Easily switch from other Adobe
  Creative Suite 4 components - such as Adobe Fireworks 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Symbol enhancements
  Fireworks CS4 symbols have also
  taken a big step forward with in-place editing--modifying the symbol without
  having to jump to a separate window. Now you can precisely refine your
  symbol while keeping an eye on the larger picture of your canvas. Moreover,
  one of the most valuable features of symbol editing, 9-slice scaling, is now
  available for any type of object--pixel, vector, group, or text area. Symbol
  properties are now even more robust with support of nested symbols (one
  symbol inside another) in Fireworks CS4.

• 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.
  

• Adobe ConnectNow integration
  esigners often need to
  discuss comps and layouts with their clients to iron out specific details,
  but face-to-face meetings can be costly and e-mail communication is often
  too slow. Fireworks CS4 brings clients and designers together for real-time
  online meetings through its connection with Adobe ConnectNow, one of the
  services offered on Acrobat.com. Now you can meet live over the web to share
  your screen, present creative concepts and prototypes, and brainstorm with
  up to two online guests for no additional service charge.

Creative Pro Online Services
Connect to the power of the
online community through your creative desktop. New online services accessed
from within Fireworks CS4 let you search for help from the online community;
share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few quick clicks; get color
inspiration from your peers and more. In addition to Adobe Kuler and Adobe
ConnectNow (an Acrobat.com service), discussed earlier in this document, other
Creative Pro Online Services available with Fireworks include Adobe Community
Help and Adobe Bridge Home. With these new online services in Creative Suite 4,
you can take your ideas to the next level.

Adobe Community Help
Get the power of an online search
engine within your Creative Suite 4 software, but with more targeted results
thanks to Adobe Community Help. Searchable content includes the in-depth
product-specific Help Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and
third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production
communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you
need, fast. Simply choose Help > Fireworks Help. (Internet connection required
for extended content.)

Adobe Bridge Home
Visit Bridge Home--an online channel
available in Adobe Bridge CS4--and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe
and the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at
large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 software,
listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next
training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you
work smarter and faster, making the most of your Creative Suite 4 software.
(Internet connection required.)