Comments on: Adobe Fireworks CS4 [Mac] [OLD VERSION]

By: Stephen O'Donoghue

Stephen O'Donoghue — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:03:44 +0000

Review by Stephen O'Donoghue for Adobe Fireworks CS4 [Mac] [OLD VERSION] Rating: This app is so bad I don't really even want to use it. Bugs galore. Not to worry, the upgrade to CS5 only costs $150. Come on Adobe, you can do better than this.

By: Kendall L. Vaughan

Kendall L. Vaughan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:18:59 +0000

Review by Kendall L. Vaughan for Adobe Fireworks CS4 [Mac] [OLD VERSION] Rating: This software isn't working for me at all. At first it was very temperamental and would only work some of the time. Recently I had to move everything to a new hard drive and Fireworks stopped working entirely. The fact that this software has been out for over a year and still won't even launch is unbelievable.

By: Dan Deridio

Dan Deridio — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:47:10 +0000

Review by Dan Deridio for Adobe Fireworks CS4 [Mac] [OLD VERSION] Rating: I loved Fireworks CS3 even though it had a ton of issues such as frequent crashes, rendering bugs, poor color management and primitive UI. It's been a lifesaver so many times that I had come to accept it's failings.

So you can imagine that I was really looking forward to CS4. After all it's called an UPGRADE. What a joke. Do not buy this software. It's beyond terrible:
- It crashes just as frequently
- It has a less primitive but completely bloated UI with tons of annoying 'improvements'/bugs. Notable is that the properties UI keeps vanishing to only reappear on restart.
- It re-formated and broke the text layout of all my CS3 files
- It removed system font aliasing so none of the text looks right anyway
- I could go on but you get the idea

SO LAME. Adobe, get your act together.