David37195275ryfu

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Fireworks 8 Serial Number

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
May 5, 2024
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I downloaded a copy of Macromedia Fireworks 8.

It works just as I recall.

The trial now wants a serial number but Adobe support say they don't do that.

Does anyone know where I can get a serial number or how I can make it work.

Happy to pay but want this to work.

Thanks

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I can't imagine where you got it. Fireworks is End of Life. It hasn't been sold or supported since 2012.

Unless you purchased a copy 15 years ago, there is no way to get a valid serial number anymore.

Besides it's unfit for use on most modern computers. It's too old.

Fireworks alternatives.
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- Illustrator CC: https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
- Photoshop Elements: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html
- Photoshop CC: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html

OTHER TOOLS (raster & vector):
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- Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer: https://affinity.serif.com
- CorelDRAW Graphics Suite: https://www.coreldraw.com/
- GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
- Gravit Designer: https://www.designer.io/en/
- Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
- Krita: https://krita.org/
- Paint.NET: https://www.getpaint.net/
- PaintShop Pro: https://www.paintshoppro.com/
- PhotoPea: https://www.photopea.com/
- Photo Pos Pro: https://www.photopos.com/PPP3_BS/Default.aspx
- Pixlr: https://pixlr.com/
- Vctr: https://vectr.com/

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

David37195275ryfuAuthor

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Hi Thanks. I had an old copy of Fireworks MX but it wouldn't read anymore. So I looked online recently and found a copy of Fireworks8. I just like its simplicity and reducing filesize etc is SO easy. If I could find a license for it i would just keep using it. It runs without error on windows11

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There are far better (and even simpler) tools available for free to optimize images for the web nowadays, resulting in smaller file sizes.

For example Sqoosh:

https://squoosh.app/

The web is moving on from Gif, JPG and even PNG. WebP and Avif are commonly used and Fireworks 8 or MX can't export either.

So feel free to be stuck in the past with Fireworks 8, but it isn't going to help you to reduce image file sizes compared to what is now possible.

No doubt pirated serial numbers sourced from spurious sites on the dark web. Good luck with that. 🤔 🤔

Agreed about using free or low-cost alternatives. I won't even mention the new generation of AI tools because quite frankly they're light years ahead of anything Fireworks could do. There's just no way to compare modern tools with obsolete software from yesteryear.

Anyway, good luck.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert