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	Fireworks 4.0 Windows | Macromedia, 2000 average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With the addition of selective JPEG compression, the need for Photoshop or other image-editing tools is on the wane.

The other really cool thing is the roundtrip to DreamWeaver (4 or UltraDev 4) is now VERY SEAMLESS. I couldn't believe how great this feature worked.

There are many, many other features that are either upgraded, added, or otherwise reorganized to make more sense.

You will love it.

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Not very impressive given the price

I was a little puzzled after seeing so many rave reviews... to immediately find a glaring bug when I started the tutorials for this product. Incredibly, when entering text into the main document window or the button editor, the text selection box does not align with the text! This makes it nearly impossible to select text from among other objects in the page. Looking at the Macromedia online "Tech Support" page I found not help for this problem, but a catalog of HUNDREDS of other bugs. Maybe this is a great program for Mac users, but PC users beware. Obviously this is just a slip-shod porting effort from an original Mac title in an attempt to move into a customer base that isn't shrinking. A bit of advice: before buying ANY software, look at the producer's web page to get some idea of what kind of support you can get if you have a problem, and see how many known bugs have been reported. This program seems to have many powerful features, but that doesn't help much when the ones you use most don't work correctly. I guess I should stick with the try-before-you-buy approach.

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