User Interface Improvements

Intelligent design with


A whole new UI (User Interface), new Toolbar and Panel icons, tabbed
Documents, Workspace Presets and much more to streamline your workflow.

FW CS4


Unified Toolbar

Accesible from the Window > Toolbar > Main menu command. (Win only) and all new
Toolbar icons.

Tabbed Documents

Streamlined tabbed document.

Tab ‘sliding’ functionality upon drag/drop ease.

Multiple, tabbed ‘frames’ Pull a tab ‘away’ from the main application framefor an isolated
document view or another ‘grouped (tabbed)’ frame.

Pages, States, Layers Panel Re-defined


With context sensitive help commands.



Workspace Presets


Choose your design workspace and have Panel to
Auto-collapse via the Edit > Preferences > General option.



New Tools/Commands


- Arrow Line Tool
- Measure Tool
- Create Air Package Command
- Air Mouse Events (Commands)t
- Create SlideShow Command (updated)
- Auto Vector Mask Command (formerly ‘Fade Image’)
- Demo Current Document Command (now inclusive)
- Flex Skinning Command (now inclusive)
- Save All Command
- Take Screenshot Command


New Preferences Panel



Fireworks CS4 Beta