Monthly Archives: August 2007

Fireworks Strokes Rendering Issues

I’ve been want­ing to address this issue here for a while now and this morn­ing I got an email from one of my long time read­ers ask­ing about it. So I decided to write a quick post to illus­trate the issue and offer a solu­tion. The prob­lem: how Fireworks ren­ders cer­tain 1 pixel strokes as a blurred 2 pix­els stroke depend­ing on what…

Fireworks Performance and AntiVirus Software

There has been a few threads in the Adobe Fireworks forum recently where some users were hav­ing per­for­mance issues with Fireworks on Windows machines. Most of the time, their prob­lems can be traced back to their using either Norton or McAfee antivirus soft­ware. Both of those are noto­ri­ous resources hogs that use ungodly amounts of RAM