Without this panel, it is impossible to set the position of gradient stops with numerical precision in Fireworks. 2- Grant Hinkson’s “Gradient Panel”Īnother little gem that brings some needed precision to Fireworks’ creative tool set. ![]() All in all, this is one fantastic extension and, by far, the one I use most day in and day out in Fireworks. You have to start using it to realize how useful it really is.Īs you can see from the image, the panel also offers a bunch of other useful features that Fireworks lacks natively including moving objects by a set number of pixels from its current position (relative) as well as resizing multiple objects at once individually (equivalent to Illustrator’s Transform Each). When I first came to Fireworks, I’d been using Illustrator for a while and the lack of this single seemingly small feature is one of the things I missed most in Fireworks. Using the Reference Point Grid in the Transform panel, you can select any of 9 different reference points by which to locate or transform a selection based on the bounding box of that selection.” By default, when using the Property Inspector or the Info panel in Fireworks, the reference point is always at the top left of the selection. It also determines from which point your selection is transformed. Here’s the explanation from the panel’s Help document: “The selected point in this grid is the point within the selection that the panel determines the values presented in the X and Y fields. What this does is let you read and set position values from anywhere around an object’s bounding box. Secondly (B), the Transform panel offers something called the “Reference Point Selector” (or 9 points proxy) which is native in the control panels of apps like Illustrator and InDesign (as well as a partial implementation in Flash). ![]() ![]() If you are working with a troublesome objet where a 1 px stroke is not rendering cleanly, use the Transform panel to move or resize the object by half a pixel (or smaller increments). One (A) is to enter decimal numbers for location and size fields (W/H/X/Y). Unlike Fireworks’ native Properties Inspector, the Transform panel lets you do 2 things that I find essential in my work. This extension is probably the one I use the most often during a Fireworks design or editing session.
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