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When Adobe bought Macromedia, my first thought was: what happens to Macromedia Fireworks? In terms of web production, Photoshop/ImageReady can’t touch it. Fearing the worst, I made a brief effort last Fall to get up to speed on image slicing and such with ImageReady. It was such a convoluted mess I figured I’d wait until either a) I had more time and patience for it or b) Adobe killed Fireworks and I had no choice.

But over time, I’ve begun to think that Fireworks might be safe after all. In addition to ImageReady being a lemon, there’s the fact that Fireworks and Flash work well together. And Flash is the golden egg. Plus, Dreamweaver is a keeper, and Fireworks and Dreamweaver work even better together.

Adobe France just announced that Freehand and GoLive will no longer be developed, but they will be supported for a while. What they didn’t announce is that Fireworks is dead. Which means I’m hoping that it’s either killing off ImageReady, or it’s best stuff is going to replace the crap in ImageReady. And that’s a lot of replacing.

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