When comparing Precursor vs Fireworks, 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 Precursor is ranked 9th. 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 Free tier
A free tier with all mockup functionality is available. Free tier is limited by lacking ability to save mockups privately and additional services provided by Precursor like voice chat and registered subdomains.
Pro Collaborate in real time
Share a link with teammates and they can jump right into your doc. You'll see their changes as they happen, and the built-in voice chat makes design meetings effortless.
Pro Highly polished UX
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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Cons
Con Really simplistic
Basic tools (line, square, circle) wich do no stick together: if you move a circle the attached line won't move making reengineering the model simply impossible
Con Is being phased out
Adobe is ditching Fireworks. So those nasty bugs will never get fixed.