Fireworks CS4 Beta - Smart Guides

Aligning objects can be a real problem at times. Fireworks CS4 beta solves this problem common amongst designers by introducing the feature “Smart Guides”

This feature itself I believe can be a sole reason driving the upgrade to CS4 for many designers worldwide.

Whenever an object is brought in close proximity to any other object on the canvas, the guides become visible automatically which automatically to the closest pixel value.

The alignment happens to any kind of object, be it vector, bitmap, AutoShapes, groups or any other object. The alignments possible in respect to any other object are:

1. Horizontal top.
2. Horizontal bottom.
3. Vertical left.
4. Vertical right.
5. Center of object.
6. Center of canvas

The alignment happens by showing a dotted line which becomes visible in all the above cases of alignment.

If a user wants to hide the dynamic lines which get generated, they can do so by un-checking the option “Show Smart Guides”.