When comparing Adobe Fireworks vs Pidoco, the Slant community recommends Pidoco for most people. In the question“What are the best high-fidelity website design tools?” Pidoco is ranked 14th while Adobe Fireworks is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Pidoco is:
Pidoco has a simple, intuitive drag&drop interface. Context menus and context-sensitive toolbars make editing super quick.
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Pros
Pro Layer Sharing
Features such as 'Layer Sharing' allows you to quickly update shared components such as headers across multiple pages. Other mockup tools such as Mockingbird will require you to manually propagate changes across all the pages.
Pro Can be used for the entire life-cycle of the design
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
Pro Combined Pixel AND Vector editor
Best integration in a graphics editor.
Pro JPG compression preview
Offers a side by side comparison of different JPG compressions in real time with magnifier.
Pro Easy to use
Pidoco has a simple, intuitive drag&drop interface. Context menus and context-sensitive toolbars make editing super quick.
Pro Lots of dynamic UI elements and icons
Pidoco offers a large library of 400+ interactive interface elements as well as an extensive set of icons as building blocks.
Pro Easily share and collect reviews
So simple to invite reviewers and collaborators and to collect feedback!
Pro Includes custom templates that speed up prototyping
Can use a variety of options to save time and avoid duplicate work, e.g. layers, custom elements, scroll frame references. Global layers and reusable custom templates speed up prototyping.
Pro Screem transitions/animations
Offers an easy way to simulate common types of screen transition effects including for swipe interactions or adding delays. Also allows for sequential reactions.
Pro Live preview
Direct simulation of prototypes possible by switching from editing to preview mode.
Pro Screen map
A screenmap lets you easily link individual prototype pages. This is also great for uploading screenshots and linking them via action hotspots.
Pro Mobile prototypes
It's possible to simulate the prototypes directly on mobile devices - in the browser or with an handy app.
Pro Entire project can be easily updated with layers
Assets can be placed in layers and displayed on several pages. Provides for easy updating of entire project in case of changes.
Cons
Con Was phased out by Adobe
Adobe abandoned this product with no single suitable replacement. Unfortunately, a common story with Adobe products. -- Very disappointing.
Con Crashes every once in a while
It is prone to unexpected crashes. Frequent saves are recommended. -- AGREED!
Con Proprietary PNG format
If you created files with their proprietary PNG format and you no longer have Fireworks (they phased it out) then you're out of luck since nothing else will read those files and preserve the layers and other features that Fireworks offered.
Con Web-based
Not a local application, so you can't use it without being online.