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Source Code for my Fireworks Extensions

I will warn you, this ain’t going to be pretty but a few people have been asking. Feel free to tear these apart… do what you will with them… no license… no...

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Creating Advanced Custom Fireworks Panels

Trevor McCauley has written a fantastic little (actually it’s 10 pages) tutorial on creating advanced custom Fireworks Panels using Flash.

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‘Extrude Path’ Extension for Fireworks

Check out Trevors new Extrude Path Command for Fireworks.

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‘Pinwheel’ AutoShape for Fireworks

Trevor McCauley has released another(again!) new Fireworks AutoShape called...

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‘File Info’ AutoShape for Fireworks

Trevor McCauley has released another(!) new Fireworks AutoShape called ‘“File...

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‘Simple Linked Selection’ Extension for Fireworks

Senocular (Trevor McCauley) has released a new Fireworks Extension ‘“Simple Linked...

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Tutorial on Creating Fireworks AutoShapes

Trevor just doesn’t let up. As a part of his relentless one man conquest to populate the world with Fireworks AutoShapes he has taken it upon himself to...

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Twist and Fade 2004 released

Steven Grosvenor has finished work on his new ‘Twist and Fade’ command for Fireworks MX 2004.

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‘Inspire’ AutoShape for Fireworks

Trevor McCauley writes:

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Photo re-touching plug-ins for Fireworks

Jan Esmann is an artist who has written a collection of photo editing and restoration plug-ins for Fireworks. Plug-ins include:

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‘Define Working Directory’ Command Panel

Trevor McCauley posts ‘another’ useful Fireworks extension: ‘“Define Working...

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‘Orb’ AutoShape for Fireworks

A nice and simple new AutoShape from Steven Grosvenor which allows you to create a glassy orb, with control over shadow opacity, base color, overlay color...

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‘3D Box’ AutoShape for Fireworks

Senocular (Trevor McCauley) has been busy again and this weekend posted another Fireworks MX 2004 AutoShape to his site.

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Twist and Fade 2004 sneak peek

I hear from Steven Grosvenor that Twist and Fade MX 2004 is nearly ready for release.

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How to steal Fireworks AutoShapes

Senocular makes an interesting post about a Fireworks MX 2004 command which allows you to ‘steal’ AutoShapes which are embedded into PNGs. Not only is this...

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Fireworks ‘Heart’ AutoShape

Senocular has a new Fireworks AutoShape available on his site which allows you to easily create ‘Heart’ shapes. It consists of 4 points for controlling...

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Fireworks ‘Ruler’ AutoShape

Senocular has written another clever little AutoShape for Fireworks, but this time it behaves more like a utility. The Ruler AutoShape allows you to measure...

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Fireworks ‘Stroke Path’ Command

Senoculars new Stroke Path command lets you take a selected element in Fireworks (bitmap, vector drawing, group, etc.) and duplicate it along a selected...

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Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Source Files

I’ve made the source files for my Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ command panel available to download.

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New Fireworks ‘Color Palette’ Panel

Viktor Goltvyanitsa has released a new version of his Fireworks Color Palette Command Panel. Version 1.2 includes the following new features:

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Easy comments in Flash

My good friend Steven Grosvenor has written a new Command Panel for Flash which provides an interface to add comments to Flash files.

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Phireworx ‘Image Edger PRO’

Steven Grosvenor has been busy. A couple of days ago he posted a new Fireworks MX / MX 2004 Command on his site called ‘“Image Edger...

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Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel

I’ve finished the Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel and it’s now available to download for free.

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Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel progress

I’ve been tinkering during spare moments with a simple little command panel to replace the ever so ugly ‘main toolbar’ in Fireworks MX / MX 2004.

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Phireworx ‘Batch Resizer’

Steven Grosvenor has released a new Fireworks MX / MX 2004 Command panel called ‘“Batch Resizer Percent”:http://www.phireworx.com’ (?).

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A New Fireworks MX 2004 Autoshape: Ribbon

Hiroshi Miyazawa of Macromedia has developed another new AutoShape for Fireworks MX 2004 called Ribbon.

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A New Fireworks MX 2004 Autoshape: Wave

Hiroshi Miyazawa of Macromedia has developed a new AutoShape for Fireworks MX 2004 called Wave.

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Resources for Extending Fireworks

Kim Cavanaugh has written a couple of articles on extending Fireworks which are hosted at Community MX. The fist covers Filters (Plug-ins) and the second...

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Duplicate Offset & Rotate Fireworks Extension is now free

My Duplicate, Offset & Rotate Fireworks Extension is now free to download. Sales of this as a commercial package have pretty much dried up, so why not let...

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Fireworks Extension Authors

Links to Fireworks Extension Authors have moved to the ‘“source // extensions”:http://www.nathanpitman.com/source/extensions.php’ section, but are also...

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New Phireworx Commands on the way

I hear on the grapevine from Steven Grosvenor at Phireworx that he has some new Fireworks MX Command panels on the way…

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Extending Fireworks

Great new article on the Fireworks Developer Center about Extending Fireworks written by Kleanthis Economou. Go check it out.

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Fireworks MX 2004 AutoShapes Tutorial

Macromedia have posted a nice tutorial on the Fireworks Developer Center on creating AutoShapes for Fireworks MX 2004. The tutorial covers:

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New Fireworks Command Panel: Auto Save

I’ve added Auto Save to the extensions list, it’s been around for a while but I just never got to putting it online. Based on an extension written by...

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New Fireworks Command Panel: Calculator

I’ve developed a Calculator command panel for Fireworks. You can use the �x,y,w & h� buttons to grab information from the selected object/s on the canvas.

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Fireworks Commands Wrapper

Kleanthis Economou has posted an updated Fireworks Commands Wrapper for Flash on the Macromedia Exchange. This allows you to author Fireworks Commands or...

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Possible issues with Fireworks MX extensions in MX 2004

Senocular identifies that some Fireworks MX extensions may cause Fireworks MX 2004 to unexpectedly error out and quit on startup. I’d be interested to know...

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Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls

Macromedia has made documentation available online for the Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls or RPCs.

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Great new Fireworks Extensions

Via Thierry Lorey at ‘Fireworks Zone‘ I came across a ton of new Fireworks Command panels and AutoShapes. Thanks go out to ‘Senocular‘ for these, it’s great...

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Phireworx SmartTabs

Phireworx have just released ‘SmartTabs’ which is an AutoShape for Fireworks MX 2004.

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Making my Dreamweaver Extensions MX 2004 compliant

I finally got round to making the modifications to all of my Dreamweaver Extensions in order that they will install correctly for Dreamweaver MX 2004 users.

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Advanced New Document 04

Mr Edoardo Zubler has reworked his fantastic ‘Advanced New Document’ command for Fireworks MX. You can download the standard version from his site and...

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Dreamweaver Extensions going Pete Tong

For some time I’ve guessed that I might need to update my Dreamweaver Extensions to function correctly with Dreamweaver MX 2004. Today I found some time to...

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Super Nudge

Brian Edgin of Phireworx has released a nifty little new extension for Fireworks MX.

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Phireworx release ShapeShifter Set 2 for Fireworks MX…

ShapeShifter Set 2 for Fireworks MX allows you to quickly and easily add callouts and speech bubbles to your active document. It’s free to download from the...

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Duplicate, Offset & Rotate now available to purchase online.

Use Duplicate, Offset & Rotate to:

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New Aftershape release; ‘Advanced New Document’

Similar in functionality to Fireworks MX “New Document” dialog box, “Advanced New Document“ command enables you to create new Fireworks documents starting...

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Brian Edgin joins Phireworx as Senior Developer.

Phireworx have announced that Brian Edgin has joined them as a Senior Developer. Brian has spent the last two and half years doing interface and new feature...

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Writing extensions for Fireworks MX is fun…

Writing extensions for Fireworks MX is fun. Last night I spent some time putting the final touches to a command panel that I’ve been working on for a long time.

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Kleanthis has released a set of 4 new Fireworks MX extensions…

Kleanthis has released a set of 4 new Fireworks MX extensions. I downloaded these some time ago, but totally forgot to report on them, they are:

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Phireworx release ‘Super Guides’ for Fireworks MX.

Phireworx release ‘Super Guides’ for Fireworks MX.

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Duplicate and Offset most downloaded FW Utility on the exchange…

Duplicate and Offset is the most downloaded Fireworks Utility on the Macromedia exchange! Not quite sure how that happened, but it’s all good if you ask me....

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Project Fireworks release first commercial Fireworks MX extension: ‘FireFrame’.

According to Kleanthis Economou (Project Fireworks), FireFrame provides a convenient way to enhance the appearance of your photos and add artistic flare to...

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Style guidelines for publishing Fireworks Extensions

Macromedia have added style guidelines for publishing Fireworks extensions to the exchange.

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My Fireworks extensions featured in ‘Practical Web Projects’

My Macromedia Fireworks extensions have been featured on the cover mounted CD-ROM of ‘Practical Web Projects‘ Issue 7.

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