Frustration with FireWorks...

After years of reasonable happiness with FireWorks, I'm reaching a peak of frustration with FireWorks MX 2004. Actually I don't know if this is particularly due to the last version of this otherwise fine couteau suisse of the webmaster, but I've spent days fiddling with it, trying to produce a decent web version of our new logo, which source file is an Illustrator 9 file, to produce nothing half-way decent. And I think I've found more bugs and annoyances today than in the past five years, things like its inability to keep a group of objects retain their respective distances when they are moved together, strange anti-aliasing of fonts, changing two unrelated parameters when you want to change only one...

Tonight, after only one try with Photoshop CS, I came with something significantly better than the best FW could do. As we say here, il n'y a pas photo ! It's still not perfect, but very refreshing after so many lost hours and dead ends. Now if only I could get a white background for the canvas instead of this grid... I'm so ignorant about Photoshop.

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garoo

March 16, 2004 2:35 AM

Well, the grid means transparency, so if you want a white background all you have to do is add a layer at the bottom, and fill it with white (or add a "Solid color" adjustement layer instead).

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François

March 16, 2004 8:40 AM

Thanks Garoo. I ended up doing that, I was thinking that Photoshop would have the same notion of canvas, and canvas color or transparency, than FireWorks.

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matthew

March 16, 2004 11:44 AM

learning to use tools like fireworks, photoshop, flash etc is just like learning to ride a bike, a bike with tens of wheels, of different shapes, with a seat that won't stay at the height you want and a bell that only goes off when you don't want it to. Oh and the bike's different each time you ride it.
So not much like a bike at all then, but some magical vehicle. But you look cool when you _can_ ride it.

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