Ever thought: “Hey, I wish Fireworks would do…?”
Here’s your chance to request a command to solve your problem. Add a comment to this page, and I’ll see what I can do.
I code Orange Commands on my spare time, and it has become some sort of sudoku-like way of exercising the mind, so don’t feel too bad about making requests. : )
I’ve been using Fireworks for prototyping. One thing that is a big barrier is that I need to make wireframes even if I make a prototype and this ends up adding a lot of time to the effort. The prototypes use frames / states to show rollovers such as menus. To make the wireframe, I need to show that menu in a static PNG /JPG etc. What I’ve done often is to put things like a menu into symbol and then put that symbol in both a frame and in a distinct layer on frame one. Then I use a command to export my wireframes by hiding and showing layers, similar to layer comps in PhotoShop. Now what I’d like to do is produce a PNG by showing a list of layers and flatten that along with the contents of another frame into a PNG. The way I’ve thought of doing this is to export frame 1 and export frame x and then create a new document and merge them. Another way might be to create a temporary layer on frame 1 and copy the contents of frame x into the temporary layer on frame 1 and then export.
If this is something you’d work on that would be cool. I’d probably benefit as much from your advice on approaching the problem. I could write the command but I’m hesitating getting started because I don’t want to spend a lot of time on the wrong approach.
Hey very nice extension. It would be great if you could make a shortcut for modifying the properties of the eraser tool (size, edge, opacity, shape) that would be very helpful. Keep on the good work.
Hey man! I’m an OK-experienced FW-newbee and the Orange Commands just makes life easier! Thanks for the work and effort!
But this would be nice… Is it possible to auto-convert Photoshop Live Effects to FW native attributes? I have a lot of PS-files where I’d like to re-use the styles in Fireworks, but the gradients are usually embedded into PS Live Effects and therefore I have to remake them as FW Live Gradients. Can this be done command-wize? This would really be helpful.
Thanks and keep up the sudoko ;-)
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A great work flow command would be to auto label all slices in a fireworks file with a prefix or suffix.
In Fireworks, if I vector-mask an object that has a shadow or a glow, the shadow/glow is “tranferred” from the object to the mask. There’s no way to keep the effect on the object, apart from flattening the object and then apply the mask (but you lose the effect editability) Here’s an example of what I mean: http://ivanhalen.com/masks.png So, I’d like a command to achieve this result…
Thanks!!! PS: the Reflection effect saved my day!!! :-)