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Summary: If I could give 0 stars I would
Review: Anyone running Mac OSX should not buy Fireworks MX. I've been using this product grudgingly for months and the amount of bugs and errors in this program are amazing. It's actually a joke around the office that I get angry at least once a day at Macromedia. You'll read a lot of reviews around with "Macromedia Evangelists" who will give a glaring review of all things Macromedia without actually using the products on a day-to-day basis, or they'll accept the bugs because they love Macromedia so much. I admit, I'm still a Fireworks lover, and I'd never switch to Imageready or anything else for that matter, to do my web design. But, as of today, I'm moving back to Fireworks 4 and running inside of Classic. You may be wondering, what could cause someone who's been Classic-free for months to go back. Let me give you a small sampling of some of the bugs in this version of Fireworks inside of OSX: Eyedropper tool selects the inverse of the color you're selecting, so you have to select that color twice. Crop tool doesn't crop document elements of documents with multiple frames and multiple layers (I just found this bug today and haven't done complete testing to find when it does and doesn't happen) You cannot copy or paste text into or out of the program Those are just a few of the bugs I've found with this program. So, my advice to you... DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM IF YOU ARE RUNNING MAC OS X. Wait until they release a bug fix, which hopefully they'll do soon. But as of today, Feb. 25th 2003, there has been no word or even rumor of a patch. I hate to be a slammer of a Macromedia product but this one deserves it. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.
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Summary: If I could give 0 stars I would
Review: Anyone running Mac OSX should not buy Fireworks MX. I've been using this product grudgingly for months and the amount of bugs and errors in this program are amazing. It's actually a joke around the office that I get angry at least once a day at Macromedia. You'll read a lot of reviews around with "Macromedia Evangelists" who will give a glaring review of all things Macromedia without actually using the products on a day-to-day basis, or they'll accept the bugs because they love Macromedia so much. I admit, I'm still a Fireworks lover, and I'd never switch to Imageready or anything else for that matter, to do my web design. But, as of today, I'm moving back to Fireworks 4 and running inside of Classic. You may be wondering, what could cause someone who's been Classic-free for months to go back. Let me give you a small sampling of some of the bugs in this version of Fireworks inside of OSX: Eyedropper tool selects the inverse of the color you're selecting, so you have to select that color twice. Crop tool doesn't crop document elements of documents with multiple frames and multiple layers (I just found this bug today and haven't done complete testing to find when it does and doesn't happen) You cannot copy or paste text into or out of the program Those are just a few of the bugs I've found with this program. So, my advice to you... DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM IF YOU ARE RUNNING MAC OS X. Wait until they release a bug fix, which hopefully they'll do soon. But as of today, Feb. 25th 2003, there has been no word or even rumor of a patch. I hate to be a slammer of a Macromedia product but this one deserves it. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.
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