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Please Adobe, wake up and restart development on Fireworks!

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
July 5, 2021
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I finally upgraded to MacOS Big Sur only to find that my go-to program for web images and graphics is finally dead! It is not supported on Big Sur. And abandoned by Adobe.

Fireworks is an app that should never have been abandoned, bitmap and vector seamlessly integrated on one app without the clunky, bloated workflows of Photoshop and Illustrator, why would you throw it away? It doen't make sense. Why that app, you have so many tiny apps now, for so many specific niche jobs, why not web graphocs? Neither Photoshop nor Illustrator are anywhere near a usable replacement for what Fireworks could do.

Sure, it was showing it's age, but if you'd kept up development beyond CS6 it would have, it could have top-line support for working with SVG, and all the other great advances in web graphics, since you abandoned it.

Please, Adobe, wake up, stop shoving the bloated, unsuitable Photoshop and Illustrator down our throats for web graphics, and start up Fireworks again.

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Paul-M

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Parallels Desktop seems to be the go to solution for people wanting to run Fireworks on Catalina or Big Sur ... Bear in mind that people are now having issues with the licesning aspect of Fireworks on Windows and having to do silly workarounds.

If you're not happy to use Photoshop consider these alternatives:

Photpea - web based app that is a bit of a Photoshop clone, it can open layered Fireworks PNGs
Affinity Designer - available for Mac and PC - about the nearest thing to Fireworks. If you buy all three Affinity apps (Publisher, Photo and Designer) you can take advantage of somehting called Studio Link which combines all three apps into one platform.

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BestDigitalAuthor

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I have Affinity Designer and like it, but looking for something where
vector shapes and bitmaps live next to each other happily! Didn't know
about the 3 apps into one approach, could be good, but does mean 3
licenses for 1 app!. Might give it a try, though.

I tried PhotoLine, but can't get it to open.

GIMP but it's clunky and the vector shapes just aren't there.

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Paul-M

Legend

Yes, if you get Affinity Photo, Publisher & Designer you can use something called Studio Link that effectively brings all three Affinity apps into one platform, so you get all the Photo bitmap editing, live filters etc of Photo, vector editing of Designer along with some Publisher features like pages which Fireworks users will like....

Paul-M - Community Expert

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rik ed

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Hear hear. Well put.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Thanks for your feedback but nobody from Adobe is monitoring this space anymore, sorry.

FW is officially discontinued and unsupported. It's not coming back. It's also unrealistic to expect 10 year old 32-bit software to work on a radically new OS that only supports 64-bit apps.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/macos-big-sur.html

OPTION 1: Find an old computer that can run 32-bit legacy apps and never upgrade it.

OPTION 2: Use modern software that's compatible with Big Sur and beyond...

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Paul-M

Legend

Fireworks works perfectly fine on Windows 10 - the problem is Adobe's licensing software that they have clearly decided they won't bother fixing for CS6 products even if they are included in the Creative Cloud Suite.

Paul-M - Community Expert

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