Three New Fireworks Productivity Commands from John Dunning
At last nights Fire on the Bay Fireworks User Group meeting, John Dunning (product manager for Yahoo! Messenger) demoed some commands he has written for Adobe Fireworks that simplify common tasks, as well as, detailed some best practices for building Fireworks extensions.
QuickFire
QuickFire is essentially Quicksilver for Fireworks. While it’s easy to add a keyboard shortcut for your most-used commands, accessing the others still requires clicking through the Commands menu. QuickFire makes accessing these commands much easier: just launch QuickFire (with a keyboard shortcut, of course), start typing part of the command’s name, then hit enter to run the matched command.
Details and Download Quickfire.
Smart Punch
The “Smart Punch” command goes far beyond Fireworks’ basic punch functionality, letting you punch vector or bitmap objects out of another vector or bitmap. Even text blocks can be used as the “puncher” or the “punchee”. The possibilities for punching mayhem are endless.
Details and Download Smart Punch.
Favicon
The “Export as Favicon” command creates a favicon file from the current document, which must be 16px by 16px. If you’re using Fireworks CS3 or later, the favicon can also include a 32px version of the icon. Currently this command works only on Windows.