with the release of Fireworks CS5, some commands needed tweaking. Orange Commands 1.5 brings CS5 compatibility, some bug fixes, and a new command: Safe Flatten.

Safe Flatten (in the Commands » Effects menu) duplicates the current selection, flattens it, and hides the original. Fireworks is known to distort your symbols when they have complex vectors, something that kills their appearance when they are supposed to be pixel-perfect. This command fixes that problem.

Get 1.5 from the Downloads section!

• Size » Scale to Width: scales the selected objects proportionally so that they have the specified width.
• Size » Scale to Height: idem for height.
• Size » Scale to 16-9: changes the selected objects height so that they have a 16:9 aspect ratio (you’ll love this if you are designing TV sites : )
• Size » Scale to 4-3: idem for 4:3.

Special thanks to Juan Pablo for the inspiration for these commands.

Download away, and report your bugs on the comments : )

This time, I have added a set of Align commands:

• Center on Canvas – Both (No shortcut)

  Centers the selected object(s) on the canvas, both horizontally and vertically.

• Center on Canvas – Horizontal (No shortcut)

  Centers the selected object(s) on the canvas, horizontally.

• Center on Canvas – Vertical (No shortcut)

  Centers the selected object(s) on the canvas, vertically.

They are useful if you (like me) hate the performance of the Flash panels in Fireworks and have deleted the ‘Align’ panel.

(BTW, deleting the Flash panels and commands that you don’t use can dramatically enhance the performance of Fireworks)

• 3 Canvas commands that allow you to resize the Canvas using the keyboard (as requested by Alberto Calvo). They support math operations, so you can quickly double the canvas width or height by adding a “*2” to the current size.
• A new Effect dubbed ‘Plastic’, that turns a solid fill into a soft linear gradient (perfect for adding a little depth to a flat object)

Enjoy it!

• 126c536259 (Don’t add a number to the Master Page, as it is not needed 99% of the time.)
• 8f90caecf2 (NEW: Text » Verdanize Selection)
• 349c217a15 (NEW: Text » Bulletize and Text » Bulletize with… commands)

Thanks to Joaquín Márquez for requesting these new commands : )

• Added “Guide » Copy” and “Guide » Paste” commands, to copy and paste guides accross documents.

It’s not 100% tested, so please report bugs!

What’s new since 1.4.5

• Repeat Vertical and Horizontal commands — here’s the documentation
• Hopefully fixed a bug that occurs when resizing objects via keyboard, where random objects would be added to the selection (and thus resized).
• Do not antialias text when Arializing.

Enjoy it!

Get it at the download section

The main feature of this version is the new Align Commands, as requested by Cesar

Changelog

• 240d7f05fe (NEW: Space Horizontal and Vertical commands, to distribute objects using a fixed distance.)

Download

• Orange Commands 1.4.4 for Fireworks CS3
• Orange Commands 1.4.4 for Fireworks CS4

• Orange Commands for Fireworks CS3
• Orange Commands for Fireworks CS4

Changelog:

1.4.3 – 2009-11-02

• f5d96d8c8a (NEW: Pages » Sort Command)
• 34495ef440 (API: Added page number parameter to Pages.each callback)
• 438787d323 (API: Added Number.times() function.)

(For a complete list of changes, check the Changelog page)