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It seems that the debate over this issue which I discussed in detail in a previous post is still going on in the forum thread that inspired my bringing the issue up here. It also was the issue in a recent post from respected Fireworks evangelist and now Adobe employee, Trevor McCauley (Senocular). The thing is, …
A little while ago, Jason Santa Maria wrote a very interesting post about Photoshop and Fireworks (as well about Adobe in general…) in which he brings up many good points to which the powers that be at Adobe should pay real close attention. First, he admits that, although Photoshop is the Adobe application he uses the most as he designs Web …
An overview of the last year on pixelyzed.com Now that 2008 is just about to start, I thought it would be a good idea to write a pixelyzed.com style year end review. There’s been a lot of activity in our little world last year as well as in other areas of the software industry. Throughout …
There was a thread on Adobe’s Fireworks forums recently where a user was asking why Fireworks uses the PNG file format (and extension) for its native editable files (the equivalent to Illustrator’s .ai and Photoshop’s .psd). This is an issue that gets raised from time to time and that thread was just the latest public …
It seems that Adobe is currently quite busy coming up with new useful technology and services. The first one is Share which is currently in Beta on Labs. Share is a service for publishing and sharing documents from anywhere and with whoever you choose. The intersteing thing I see for me is that you could …
I’ve been wanting to address this issue here for a while now and this morning I got an email from one of my long time readers asking about it. So I decided to write a quick post to illustrate the issue and offer a solution. The problem: how Fireworks renders certain 1 pixel strokes as …
There has been a few threads in the Adobe Fireworks forum recently where some users were having performance issues with Fireworks on Windows machines. Most of the time, their problems can be traced back to their using either Norton or McAfee antivirus software. Both of those are notorious resources hogs that use ungodly amounts of …
About two weeks ago, Jeremy Shulz published an "interesting" review of Fireworks on Designorati. I put "interesting" in quotes because I strongly disagree with many of his points… starting with the title of his review: "Fireworks CS3 Is Looking For its Niche". I suppose I shouldn’t be but I’m always surprised when poeople who should know better …
Since I got my new computer, I’ve been busy installing software, installing Office, email and other basic applications as well as setting my new Vista environment and getting familiar with it. I’ll post later about my impressions on Vista. But Saturday, I finally installed Adobe Design Premium CS3 on the new machine. All I can …
Just as a follow-up to my last post about the new Adobe Digital Editions eBooks reader software, Adobe has released and updated version a couple days ago that solved the crashing problem that I and many other users were having. So now, I can now go back to reading my Flash book. I’m happy I …