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vladimirz97236256
vladimirz97236256
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May 25, 2018
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Where is extending fireworks documentation

  • May 25, 2018
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it was on its place few days ago - now i see only 404 error

P.S.

what about open sourcing FW? or you still  afraid that it may kill Illustrator

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    Paul-M
    Legend
    September 7, 2018

    Fireworks is NOT dead so don't stop using it if its your best option....  There is still NO viable replacement in the marketplace for Fireworks IMO. My advise keep using it if it meets your needs. Its the best and only complete vector/bitmap/ui/web/prototyping all in one software solutions by a mile.

    Photoshop is too clunky and most other UI design tools have none or very little bitmap capabilities meaning you have to switch between different programs which is a total joke. Mac users have been moving to Sketch but it still lacks a  lot of the bitmap capabilities of Fireworks and who cares about Artboards or if it is the trendy software of the moment ... Pages in Fireworks work just fine for me

    There are also plenty of extensions out there for Fireworks to extend it and bring up to date, adding features like SVG support, cleaner CSS output/extraction etc etc .... The batch features in Fireworks are brilliant also and you'll find it supports a lot of older Photoshop Plugins which can be quite useful.

    I found this link if its any use: https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/fireworks/cs5/fireworks_cs5_extending.pdf

    Paul-M - Community Expert
      vladimirz97236256
      vladimirz97236256Author
      Participant
      May 28, 2018

      so disappointing, i'm really starting to hate adobe

      rayek.elfin
      rayek.elfin
      Legend
      May 28, 2018

      Fireworks was discontinued back in May 2013. I just checked, and you are correct: all the extending FW documentation is taken offline.

      But what do you expect? Development stopped 5 years ago. Adobe cleaned up redundant pages on their servers after five years. If this documentation was important to you, why didn't you create a local copy these past 5 years? The signs were on the wall that Adobe would take these offline at some point. It is a wonder they left the page alone for 5 years.

      It is what it is. Move on to other products. Fireworks is dead, dead, dead. Gone and over with.

      That said, Wayback Machine is your best friend:

      https://web.archive.org/web/20160412184435/http://help.adobe.com/en_US/fireworks/cs/extend/fireworks_cs5_extending.pdf

      The FW API documentation is still available via Wayback Machine:

      Adobe Fireworks * Extending Adobe Fireworks

        vladimirz97236256
        vladimirz97236256Author
        Participant
        May 29, 2018

        no development for  years, but this is a commercial product that is for sale, it is still available for purchase

        if you buy it now and press F1 after install you'll see a 404 error

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