A collection of free productivity-enhancing extensions that I've built for Adobe Fireworks using JavaScript, ActionScript and Flex. The most recent ones include:
When creating wireframes, it's often useful to suggest the presence of text without using actual words, which can distract the viewer from the overall layout. Even "lorem ipsum" dummy text requires the selection of a typeface and size, which may be too much detail for the mockup. In hand-drawn mockups (does anyone still draw by hand?) you could use a marker to draw lines of different lengths to suggest text, but this effect has always been a pain to create with software. The Greeked Text auto shape makes it easy. more...
The Fireworks Console simplifies the process of learning the JavaScript API considerably. Instead of writing and running an entire command, you can simply type code snippets into a panel and immediately see the output. It's a little like having a command line prompt for Fireworks. You can also use the console to debug and trace your own .jsf commands and Flash panels.
This panel will be of interest only to developers of Fireworks extensions. more...
For you Fireworks developers out there who like to sling JavaScript but aren't down with Flash, or just don't want to deal with the overhead of building a SWF for a simple panel, the JSML Panel library can help. It's a combination of JS and Flex 3 that lets you create a Flash panel using just JavaScript, so you can build a fully functional Fireworks panel with nothing more than a text editor. For non-developers, this extension won't be very useful. more...
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