Due out in 2007, Firefox 9 is sure to be a nice improvement to an already excellent Fireworks 8. It would be even nicer, though, if we could pass on our very own wishlists to Adobe. And since I am doing some testing for Adobe, if your idea is a good one, I can pass it along. Here's my starting wishlist. If you have any tips, please let me know! Post your wishlist and I'll pass it along.

My Fireworks Wishlist

I am compiling a wishlist (in progress) to send Adobe for Fireworks 9 improvements and new features. When I think of something, I add it to the list. Here's my list so far.

Better Font Viewer

A better font viewer so I can quickly choose and compare fonts using selected text. Currently, using the Text tool, previewing different fonts on text in Fireworks 8 is tedious. Basically, what we have now is a preview as you scroll through fonts in the drop down menu. What's missing? A way to see more than one font at a time and compare different fonts. A possible solution would be for the Text tool drop down menu to display the font names using the font itself, along with at least a portion (first 10 or so characters?) of the selected text after the font name, of course also rendered using the font.

Document Color Palette

What I am terming a "Document Color Palette" would be a Fireworks generated (and constantly updated) palette containing all (or most of) the colors for each document open in Fireworks, or least for the active document (the one that has focus).

The Document Color Palette would be useful in several ways. I'm sure other people will think of some great uses, but here's what I imagine. It could be accessed in other Adobe applications, such as via Dreamweaver's color picker when typing CSS. Imagine you're typing CSS in Dreamweaver and you need to know the hex value for that beautiful red from your Fireworks design comp. Now imagine that when you type color: you get the color palette popup with the option to choose from the Document Color Palette of your design in Fireworks. Also imagine that you could import a commented list of colors from the color to paste into your CSS file, so you could copy/paste in Dreamweaver without having to continually access the Document Color Palette from Fireworks.

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