Improving the workflow

Just had a good session using Fireworks CS3 for some screen mockups.

A few notable finds :

1) You can now have multiple "pages" in one PNG file which is great for organisation and improving your workflow. So each page can have multiple frames and you can share layers across frames and pages (e.g. you'd use that for your navigation, any site wide backgrounds etc). Being able to keep an entire project in one PNG is great. Its like having a desk with an infinite size paper tray.

2) Nine slicing can now be added to your components (so when you scale components like Flex buttons they look great at any size). All the bundled Flex components have 9 slicing on by default so behave really nicely on your page. I often resize assets during each round of GUI tweaks so now my mockups still look as good as the day I first made them.

It would be great to be able to automatically convert a PNG with multiple frames and pages into a PDF with every screen combination - not sure if that is a feature in CS3- will have a hunt for it.