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Add to SafariWhen comparing Fireworks vs Microsoft PowerPoint, the Slant community recommends Fireworks for most people. In the question“What are the best mockup and wireframing tools for websites?” Fireworks is ranked 4th while Microsoft PowerPoint is ranked 22nd. The most important reason people chose Fireworks is:
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
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Pros
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 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 PSD compatible
Open PSD files
Pro Awesome Symbol Libraries
A significant advantage over web-app style mockup tools are the symbol libraries for Fireworks.
From boagworld:
Both symbols, styles and vector shapes can be saved for re-use and collected into useful library resources. In addition Fireworks ships with a common library of useful objects including buttons, browser and application elements for both Mac and Windows look and feel.
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Pro De facto standard
PowerPoint is the most widely used presentation app.
Pro Lots of free templates
Because PowerPoint is so common, there are tons of free templates found within the program or online.
Pro Excellent integration with Windows
Cons
Con Is being phased out
Adobe is ditching Fireworks. So those nasty bugs will never get fixed.
Con Is poor at handling animation-heavy presentations
Adding too many animations might cause it to slow down quite significantly, as well as on older versions more complicated animations might not work very well.
