Fireworks: Can someone explain this, please?
I love Fireworks, but this has bugged me since I’ve been using it. Say I draw a line. It’s a 1-pixel (I’m zoomed way in), hard, black line. Notice the blue vector line and end points, and the position of the line in relation to the underlying vector:
But since I was drawing it by hand, maybe it’s not quite as long as I wanted it. It’s 10-pixels long, but I wanted it to be 11. No problem. I go into the properties inspector and change that 10 to an 11. Now I get this:
It’s no longer centered on the vector line, and the line itself has shifted down and to the right. And there’s no way to get it back to that state.
But it gets worse. Say I drew a red rectangle and then drew a line on the bottom of it. Like so:
Now, you see the line says that it is 10 pixels wide. And it is the same width as the rectangle. But let’s select the rectangle.
Wait, the rectangle is 11 pixels and the line is 10 pixels? But they are the same size. Well what happens if we go into the properties inspector and change the width of the line to 11. It should match the rectangle, right?
OK, now it’s not even on the bottom of the rectangle anymore. It did that weird shift thing. Well, we’ll just nudge it back into place…
GAH! That’s All wrong! Now it says it’s the same size as the rectangle, but it’s longer!
Usually about this time I throw away the lines and start drawing one pixel thick rectangles. This is fine as long as they are perfectly horizontal or vertical. But not so much if they are at all diagonal.
I’ve been using Fireworks for at least 4 or 5 versions now, and this has always made me crazy. I have to believe that I’m just missing something. Surely line drawing couldn’t be that messed up in such a major tool and not be fixed for this long…?
SOLVED!
Link given in comments:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/217/d6f2172a.html
Probably more info than I can take in all at once, but at least I know I’m not just going crazy.