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Table Of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Installation
- Adobe Help
- Resources
- What’s new in Fireworks CS3
Chapter 2: Fireworks Basics
- About working in Fireworks
- About vector and bitmap graphics
  - About vector graphics
  - About bitmap graphics
- Creating a new document
- Opening and importing files
- Saving Fireworks files
  - Saving Fireworks PNG files
  - Saving documents in other formats
- The Fireworks work environment
Chapter 3: Selecting and Transforming Objects
- Selecting objects
- Selecting pixels
- Editing selected objects
- Transforming and distorting selected objects and selections
- Organizing objects
Chapter 4: Working with Bitmaps
- Working with bitmaps
- Creating bitmap objects
- Accessing photo editing tools
- Drawing, painting, and editing bitmap objects
- Retouching bitmaps
- Adjusting bitmap color and tone
- Blurring and sharpening bitmaps
- Adding noise to an image
Chapter 5: Working with Vector Objects
- Drawing vector objects
- Editing paths
Chapter 6: Working with Text
- Entering text
- Formatting text
- Applying strokes, fills, and filters to text
- Attaching text to a path
  - Editing paths and text attached to paths
  - Changing text orientation and direction on a path
- Transforming text
- Converting text to paths
- Importing text
- Checking spelling
  - Customizing spell checking
- Using the Text Editor
Chapter 7: Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills
- Using the Colors section of the Tools panel
- Organizing swatch groups and color models
- Using color boxes and color pop-up windows
  - Selecting colors from a color pop-up window
  - Sampling colors from a color pop-up window
- Working with strokes
- Working with fills
  - Setting fill attributes of the drawing tools
  - Editing solid fills
- Applying gradient and pattern fills
- Adding texture to strokes and fills
Chapter 8: Using Live Filters
- Applying Live Filters
- Editing Live Filters
Chapter 9: Pages, Layers, Masking, and Blending
- Working with pages
- Working with layers
- Masking images
- Blending and transparency
Chapter 10: Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs
- Using styles
- Using symbols
- Working with URLs
Chapter 11: Slices, Rollovers, and Hotspots
- Creating and editing slices
- Making slices interactive
  - Adding simple interactivity to slices
  - Using the Behaviors panel to add interactivity to slices
- Preparing slices for export
- Working with hotspots and image maps
Chapter 12: Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus
- Creating button symbols
- Creating navigation bars
- Creating pop-up menus
Chapter 13: Creating Animations
- Building animation
- Working with animation symbols
- Working with frames
- Tweening
- Previewing an animation
- Exporting your animation
- Working with existing animations
- Using multiple files as one animation
Chapter 14: Creating Slideshows
- The Create Slideshow command
- Building or editing a slideshow
- Slideshow properties
- Creating a custom Fireworks album player
  - Node definitions
Chapter 15: Optimizing and Exporting
- About optimizing
- Using the Export Wizard
  - Using Image Preview
- Optimizing in the workspace
- Exporting from Fireworks
- Sending a Fireworks document as an e-mail attachment
- Using the File Management button
Chapter 16: Using Fireworks with Other Applications
- Working with Dreamweaver
- Working with Flash
  - Placing Fireworks graphics in Flash
  - Using Fireworks to edit graphics imported into Flash
- Working with FreeHand
- Working with Director
  - Placing Fireworks files in Director
  - Editing Director cast members in Fireworks
    - Optimizing cast members in Director
- Working with HomeSite
- Working with Photoshop
- About working with Illustrator
- About working with GoLive
- About working with HTML editors
- About extending Fireworks
- About Adobe XMP
- About Adobe Bridge
- Flex integration for rich Internet application layouts (MXML export)
Chapter 17: Automating Repetitive Tasks
- Finding and replacing
- Batch processing
- Extending Fireworks
- Flash SWF movies used as Fireworks panels
Chapter 18: Preferences and Keyboard Shortcuts
- Setting preferences
- Changing keyboard shortcut sets
- Working with configuration files
- About reinstalling Fireworks
- Viewing package contents (Macintosh only)
Index
- Numerics
  - 24-bit color 267
  - 32-bit color 267
- A
  - absolute URLs, entering 196
  - accessibility
    - of Help 3
  - ACT file format, swatches 128
  - ACT file, exporting 133
  - activation of software 1
  - Add Filters pop-up menu 147
  - Add Noise filter 83
  - Add Preview Icons preference 347
  - adding
    - frames 243
    - pages 156
    - styles 184
  - adjusting
    - hue or saturation 77
    - tonal range using eyedropper 75
  - Adobe Bridge 328
  - Adobe Bridge Home 6
  - Adobe Design Center 6
  - Adobe Fireworks
    - system requirements 1
  - Adobe Flex Builder 329
  - Adobe GoLive 288
  - Adobe Help 2
  - Adobe Video Workshop 4
  - Adobe XMP 328
  - Align panel 28
  - aligning objects 59
  - alpha channel of an object, selecting 48
  - alpha, converting images to 81
  - alt (alternate) text 212
    - assigning to buttons or instances 228
  - animation 238
    - adding frames 243
    - creating from multiple files 249
    - custom frame viewing 246
    - deleting frames 244
    - disabling layer sharing 245
    - editing 301
    - exporting 248
    - frames 240
    - inserting frames 243
    - looping 247
    - managing frames 242
    - movement 240
    - moving objects to another frame 244
    - multiframe editing 246
    - naming frames 243
    - onion skinning 245
    - opacity 240
    - opening 248
    - optimizing 248
    - playing 246
    - previewing 246
    - properties 239
    - removing 241
    - reordering frames 244
    - rotation 240
    - scaling 240
    - setting frame delay 242
    - sharing layers across frames 244
    - transparency 247
    - turning frames on and off 243
    - viewing all frames 246
    - viewing current and adjacent frames 246
    - viewing multiple frames 245
    - viewing next frame 246
  - anti-aliasing
    - edges 144
    - removing halos 275
    - smoothing text edges 118
    - target background color 274
  - application program package 352
  - arranging frames 244
  - Arrow tool 86
  - Auto Levels feature for adjusting tonal range 72
  - Auto Shapes 86, 87, 88, 92
  - Auto Shapes Properties panel 28
  - auto-naming slices 213
    - changing default naming convention 214
- B
  - backing up during Find and Replace 332
  - baseline shift 119
  - Batch Process dialog box 334
  - batch processing 334
    - backing up files 340
    - commands 339
    - export settings 337
    - filenames 339
    - Find and Replace 338
    - optimization settings 337
    - saving as scripts 340
    - saving files 336
    - scaling graphics 338
  - batch scripts 340
    - dragging and dropping 341
    - running 341
  - behaviors 210
    - Behaviors panel 209
    - Dreamweaver 206
    - Nav Bar Down 210
    - Nav Bar Over 210
    - Nav Bar Restore 210
    - Set Nav Bar Image 210
    - Set Pop-up Menu 210
    - Set Text of Status Bar 210
    - Simple Rollover 209
    - Swap Image 209
  - Behaviors panel 28, 209
  - beveled edges 149
  - Beveled Rectangle tool 86
  - bicubic interpolation scaling method 346
  - bilinear interpolation scaling method 346
  - bitmap graphics 14
  - bitmap masks 164, 165
    - creating 169
    - using an existing object as 167, 169
  - bitmap mode 12
    - applying with tools 25
    - switching to 61
  - bitmaps
    - adjusting brightness and contrast 76
    - adjusting color and tone 71
    - adjusting hue and saturation 77
    - blurring and sharpening 79
    - erasing 65
    - retouching 66
  - blending
    - applying 181
    - colors of overlapping objects 179
    - objects 246
    - setting blending mode 181
  - blending colors 135
  - blending modes 179
    - Color 180
    - Darken 179
    - Difference 180
    - Erase 180
    - Hard Mix 180
    - Hue 180
    - Invert 180
    - Lighten 179
    - Linear Burn 179
    - Linear Dodge 179
    - Linear Light 179
    - Luminosity 180
    - Multiply 179
    - Pin Light 180
    - Saturation 180
    - Screen 179
    - Tint 180
    - Vivid Light 179
  - Blur filter 79
  - Blur More filter 79
  - Blur tool 66
  - blurring 79
    - bitmap areas 66
    - images 67
  - BMP file format 265
  - BMP, saving 23
  - bold text 112
  - Border command 50
  - boundaries 136
  - Bridge Home 6
  - Bridge, Adobe 328
  - brightness 76
  - Brightness/Contrast filter 76
  - Bring Forward command 59
  - Bring to Front command 59
  - Brush tool 64, 93
  - brushes
    - saving settings 140
    - setting tip 139
    - stroke options 138
  - Brush-size Painting Cursors preference 347
  - Burn tool 66
  - Button Editor 221
    - creating symbols in 187
    - editing symbols in 193
  - button states
    - Down 221, 222
    - Over 221
    - Over While Down 221, 222
    - Up 221
  - button symbols
    - editing 224
    - inserting in a document 223
  - buttons
    - active area 226
    - Button Editor 220
    - creating 220
    - defined 221
    - Live Filters 222
    - navigation bars 228
    - overview 220
    - setting a target 227
- C
  - canvas 34
    - modifying characteristics 34
    - modifying resolution 35
    - rotating 36
    - trimming 36
  - cell border properties 234
  - cellular phone graphics. See WBMP files
  - center point and axis of rotation 56
  - Chamfer Rectangle tool 87
  - character spacing. See kerning
  - Check Spelling command 124
  - cloning
    - bitmap areas 66
    - images 66
    - objects 54
  - CMY color model 130
  - collapsing layers 161
  - color
    - adjusting 71
    - applying from Swatches panel 127
    - changing 64
    - changing stroke 137
    - choosing color depth 266
    - choosing swatch group 128
    - choosing using Eyedropper tool 136
    - color models 130
    - creating in Color Mixer 131
    - creating with system color picker 131
    - deleting from Swatches panel 129
    - dithering with websafe 132
    - fills 76
    - finding and replacing 333
    - finding and replacing non- websafe 333
    - gradient fills 142
    - inverting values 78
    - picking from color bar 130
    - pop-up window 135
    - removing unused 267
    - replacing a swatch 129
    - resetting default 127
    - sampling 64, 136
    - saving custom swatches 129
    - setting preferences 346
    - viewing color values 131
  - color bar 127, 129
    - choosing a color with 130
    - cycling through color models 131
  - color blending 135
  - color correction
    - brightness and contrast 76
    - Curves 74
    - Levels 72
    - using eyedropper 75
  - Color Mixer 28, 129, 130
    - creating colors with 131
    - displaying 130
    - mixing colors in 130
    - resetting default colors in 127
    - swapping stroke and fill colors in 127
  - color models
    - CMY 130
    - Grayscale 130
    - Hexadecimal 130
    - HSB 130
    - RGB 130
  - Color Palette panel 133
  - color palettes
    - Adaptive 266
    - appending to current swatches 128
    - Black and White 266
    - Custom 266
    - editing 269
    - Exact 266
    - Grayscale 266
    - importing 266
    - locking colors 269
    - optimizing 269
    - saving 270
    - setting number of colors 266
    - System (Macintosh) 266
    - System (Windows) 266
    - Uniform 266
    - viewing 268
    - Web 216 266
    - WebSnap Adaptive 266
  - color palettes, swapping 134
  - color picker, system 131
  - color table 268
    - edited swatch in 268
    - locked swatch in 268
    - selecting colors in 268
    - swatch with multiple attributes in 268
    - transparent swatch in 268
    - updating 268
    - websafe swatch in 268
  - colorizing images 77
  - command scripts, editing 344
  - commands
    - batch processing 339
    - creating 342
    - deleting custom 344
    - editing 344
    - renaming custom 344
    - renaming or deleting Adobe Fireworks commands 344
    - saving 40
  - Commands menu 343
    - managing saved commands 344
  - composite paths 104
  - compositing 179
  - compression
    - adjusting 270
    - and optimization 261
    - blurring edges 274
    - choosing a file type 265
    - selective 273
  - configuration files 350
    - customizing for all users 351
    - for all users 351
    - location of 351
    - master 350, 351
  - configuring Adobe Fireworks 346
  - Connector Line tool 87
  - Constrain Proportions option 17
  - constraining rotation 56
  - context menus 37
  - Contract command 49
  - contracting paths 106
  - contrast 76
  - Convert to Symbol dialog box 186
  - converting paths 104
  - copying
    - all selected objects on a layer 161
    - bitmaps 53
    - frames 243
    - HTML 283
    - object attributes 186
    - objects 53
    - pixels 44
  - copying and pasting
    - Adobe Fireworks HTML 283
    - symbol instances 195
  - copying and pasting objects from other applications 19
  - corner points 94
  - Create Symbol Script panel 28
  - creating
    - master pages 157
    - rich graphic symbols 190
    - slideshows 250
  - Crop command 105
  - cropping
    - canvas 37
    - documents 37
  - CSS layers, exporting 285
  - curve points 95
  - curve segments, editing 96
  - custom shortcut sets. See keyboard shortcuts
  - cutting paths 103
- D
  - darkening
    - bitmap areas 66
    - images 68
  - default preferences 348
  - Delete Objects While Cropping preference 347
  - Delete Paths When Converting to Marquee preference 347
  - deleting
    - frames 244
    - layers 160
    - Live Filters 152
    - masks 178
    - pages 156
    - points 99
    - points on curves 75
    - selected objects 54
    - styles 185
    - swatches 129
  - Deselect command 47
  - deselecting all objects 43
  - Design Center 6
  - Design Notes for Dreamweaver and Adobe Fireworks integration 303
  - Director
    - cast members 319
    - exporting to 317
    - placing Adobe Fireworks files in 317
  - disjoint rollovers 208
    - applying to a slice 208
    - attaching to hotspots 218
    - creating 208
  - display modes, switching 34
  - Distort tool 57
  - distorting objects 57
  - dithering 267
    - with websafe colors 132
  - docking panels 28
    - in panel group 29
  - document tabs 31
  - documents
    - creating new 15
    - default mode 84
    - multiple views 33
    - opening 16
    - recent 16
    - saving 22
    - switching 31
    - tiling views 33
  - Dodge tool 66
  - Doughnut tool 87
  - Down button state 221
  - downloads
    - updates, plug-ins, and tryouts 7
  - downsampling 36
  - drag-and-drop behaviors
    - blue line 207
    - definition 207
    - deleting 208, 209
  - dragging and dropping 18
  - drawing 87
    - arrows 86
    - bending adjacent segments 99
    - beveled rectangles 86
    - chamfer rectangles 87
    - changing adjacent segments 99
    - connector lines 87
    - converting straight paths to curved 97
    - distorting objects 57
    - doughnuts 87
    - ellipses 84
    - lines 84
    - L-shapes 87
    - pie charts 87
    - polygons 85, 87
    - rectangles 84
    - rounded rectangles 85, 87
    - selecting a point 98
    - spirals 87
    - splitting paths 104
    - stars 85
  - drawing area. See canvas
  - Dreamweaver
    - behaviors 206, 299
    - editing Adobe Fireworks images in 297
    - exporting to 288, 296
    - files 292
    - libraries 296
    - making Adobe Fireworks the default image editor 302
    - placeholders 292
  - Dreamweaver and Adobe Fireworks integration
    - Design Notes 303
    - editing Adobe Fireworks animations 301
    - external editor preference 303
    - Launch and Edit preferences 304
    - launching and editing Adobe Fireworks images 298
    - launching and editing Adobe Fireworks tables 299
    - launching and optimizing Adobe Fireworks images 300
    - Optimize Image in Adobe Fireworks command 300
    - updating Adobe Fireworks HTML 296
  - drop shadows 150
  - duplicating
    - selected objects 53
- E
  - edges
    - beveled 149
    - showing and hiding 43
  - Edit Gradient dialog box 143
  - Edit Stroke dialog box 138
  - editing
    - actions in the History panel 345
    - animation symbols 240
    - behaviors 210
    - bitmap objects 63
    - gradient fills 142
    - images 63
    - Live Filters 152
    - pages 156
    - paths 100
    - pixels 44
    - pop-up menus 236
    - selected objects 53
    - single layer 162
    - solid fills 141
    - styles 185
  - editing paths 107
  - effects
    - editing 152
    - finding and replacing 333
    - glow 150
    - Live Filters 147
    - plug-ins 151
    - removing 152
    - setting defaults 153
  - ellipse 84
  - e-mail 289
  - embossing 149
  - EPS files, opening in Adobe Fireworks 17
  - Eraser tool 65
  - erasing bitmaps 65
  - Expand command 49
  - Expand Stroke command 106
  - expanding
    - layers 161
    - strokes 106
  - Export Area tool 280
  - Export Preview 258
    - comparing optimization settings 259
    - optimizing 258
    - panning area 259
    - previewing 258
    - previewing optimization 258
    - zooming 259
  - exporting 276
    - Adobe Fireworks files to Dreamweaver 321
    - an area 280
    - animated GIFs 248
    - animations 247, 279
    - batch process settings 337
    - CSS layers 285
    - customizing files for Photoshop 325
    - default location for 276
    - frames as multiple files 279
    - hotspots 217
    - HTML 280
    - images 277
    - layers as multiple files 279
    - pages as image files 158
    - pages to HTML 157
    - results 281
    - slices 211, 278
    - styles 185
    - symbols 195
    - to Director 317
    - to Dreamweaver 296
    - to Flash 305, 310
    - to FreeHand 314
    - to Illustrator 314
    - to Photoshop 325
    - to WBMP files 265
    - UTF-8 286
    - XHTML 286
  - exporting graphics 13
  - Extension Manager 341
  - external editor preference 303
  - external files, converting to swap image 211
  - Extras 5
  - eyedropper pointer 130, 135, 136, 140
  - Eyedropper tool 64, 128
- F
  - Feather command 65
  - feathering 65
    - creating feathered edges 144
    - pixel selections 49
  - features, new 8
  - file formats
    - BMP 265
    - GIF 265
    - JPEG 265
    - PNG 265
    - TIFF 265
  - File Management button 289, 304
  - File Management menu 289, 304
  - file size
    - reducing quality 273
    - setting loss to reduce size 270
  - filenames, changing in a batch process 339
  - files, unlocking 289, 304
  - Fill Color box 64
  - Fill Color Live Filter 182
  - fills
    - adding texture to 146
    - adjusting 144
    - applying color fills 76
    - applying gradient 64, 142
    - applying pattern 141
    - applying solid 141
    - changing color for basic shape tools 140
    - changing edges 144
    - drawing over strokes 139
    - editing gradient 142
    - editing solid 141
    - feathering or anti-aliasing 144
    - finding and replacing 333
    - moving 144
    - resetting default color 127
    - rotating 144
    - saving custom gradient 145
    - saving gradient 145
    - swapping stroke and fill colors 127
    - transforming gradient 144
    - transforming pattern 144
    - transparency illusion 132
    - web dither fill 132
  - filters
    - Add Noise 83
    - Blur 79
    - Blur More 79
    - Brightness/Contrast 76
    - Find Edges 80
    - Gaussian Blur 79
    - Hue/Saturation 77
    - Invert 78
    - Motion Blur 79
    - Photoshop plug-ins 150
    - Radial Blur 80
    - Sharpen 81
    - Sharpen More 81
    - Unsharp Mask 82
    - Zoom Blur 80
  - Find and Replace panel 331, 332
  - Find Edges filter 80
  - Find panel 28
  - finding and replacing 331
    - batch processed files 338
    - colors 333
    - fonts 332
    - multiple files 332
    - non-websafe colors 333
    - selecting source for search 331
    - text 332
    - URLs 333
    - uses 330
  - Fireworks 327
  - Fireworks. See Adobe Fireworks
  - Fit to Canvas 36
  - Flash
    - exporting to 305, 310
    - importing Adobe Fireworks PNG to 305
  - Flash SWF movies 345
  - Flatten Selection command 62
  - Flex integration 329
  - flipping objects 56
  - floating pixel selections
    - creating 52
    - moving 52
  - font installation 2
  - fonts
    - finding and replacing 332
    - handling missing 123
    - styles 112, 113
    - type sizes 112, 113
  - frame delay
    - animations 242
  - frame delay, default setting 17
  - frames
    - adding 243
    - custom viewing 246
    - deleting 244
    - disabling layer sharing 245
    - exporting 279
    - inserting 243
    - managing 242
    - moving objects to another frame 244
    - multiframe editing 246
    - names in animation 243
    - onion skinning 245
    - reordering 244
    - setting delay 242
    - sharing layers for animation 244
    - turning off onion skinning 246
    - turning on and off 243
    - viewing all 246
    - viewing current and adjacent 246
    - viewing next 246
  - Frames panel 27, 242
  - freeform paths 93
  - FreeHand
    - exporting to 314
    - placing Adobe Fireworks graphics in 312
  - Full Screen with Menus mode 33
- G
  - Gaussian Blur filter 79
  - GIF file format
  - GIF, saving 23
  - glow effects 150
  - GoLive 288, 327
  - gradient fills 64
  - Grayscale color model 130
  - grid
  - grouping objects 58
  - guides 38
    - locking 39
    - snapping objects to 39
- H
  - halos, removing 275
  - handles, transform 54
  - Help 2
  - Hexadecimal color model 130
  - Hide All command 170
  - Hide Panels command 29
  - Hide Selection command 170
  - hiding
  - highlights 72
  - Histogram 72
  - History panel 27, 40
  - HomeSite
    - placing Adobe Fireworks HTML in 320
    - placing Adobe Fireworks images in 320
  - hotspots 13
  - HSB color model 130
  - HTML 281
  - HTML, opening tables 18
  - hue, adjusting 71, 77
  - Hue/Saturation filter 77
- I
  - icon images. See thumbnails
  - Illustrator
    - exporting to 314
    - importing files into Adobe Fireworks 326
  - Image Editing panel 28, 63
  - image maps 216
    - creating 216
    - exporting 218
  - images
    - exporting 277
    - Image Editing panel 63
    - painting 63
    - saving 277
    - selecting 44
    - selecting pixels 44
  - images as fills. See Paste Inside command
  - import text 122
    - ASCII text 123
    - Photoshop files 123, 323
    - RTF files 123
  - importing
    - from digital camera 20
    - Photoshop files 323
    - Photoshop import preferences 348
    - PNG files 20
    - styles 185
    - symbols 195
  - indenting text 117
  - Info panel 28
  - inserting
    - Adobe Fireworks HTML into Dreamweaver 295
    - Adobe Fireworks images into Dreamweaver 292
  - Inset Path command 106
  - installing Photoshop plug-ins 151
  - instance-level properties 225
  - instances
    - defined 186
    - editing 193
    - placing in document 187
    - tweening 246
  - integration with other applications 291
  - interactive button properties 226
  - interactivity 13
  - interlacing graphics 272
  - interpolation (scaling) 346
  - Intersect command 105
  - Invert filter 78
  - italic text 112
- J
  - JPEG files
  - JPEG, saving 23
- K
  - kerning 114
  - keyboard shortcuts 349
  - keyboard shortcuts in Help 3
  - Knife tool 103
- L
  - Launch and Edit preferences 304
  - Launch options 347
  - layer effects, Photoshop 151
  - layers
  - Layers panel 27, 159
    - naming slices 213
    - viewing slices 203
  - leading 115
  - letter spacing. See kerning
  - Levels feature for adjusting tonal range 72
  - Library panel 186
    - inserting button symbols 223
  - lightening
    - bitmap areas 66
    - images 68
  - line spacing 115
    - See also leading
  - lines 84
    - See also strokes
  - linking to master pages 157
  - Live Filters
  - LiveDocs 2
  - locked files 289, 304
  - locking layers 162
  - L-shape tool 87
- M
  - macros 343
  - marquees 44
  - masks 164
  - master pages
  - merging paths 99, 103
  - midtones 72
  - mirroring. See flipping objects
  - mobile phone graphics 17
  - mobile phone graphics. See WBMP files
  - modes
  - Motion Blur filter 79
  - mouse events 210
  - Mouse Highlight preference 347
  - MXML export 329
- N
  - nav (navigation) bars
  - navigating a document 31
  - navigation shortcuts 3
  - nearest neighbor interpolation scaling method 347
  - nested tables 215
  - new document, matching Clipboard size 15
  - new features 8
  - Numeric Transform command 57
- O
  - object-oriented graphics 14
  - objects
  - objects, locating pasted 19
  - onion skinning
  - opacity, adjusting 181, 271
    - See also transparency
  - opening
  - optimization settings
  - Optimize Image in Adobe Fireworks command 300
  - Optimize panel 27
  - Optimize to Size wizard 260
  - optimizing 258
  - optimizing graphics 13
  - Options menu in panels 30
  - outlines 136
    - See also strokes
  - Over button state 221
  - Over While Down button state 221
  - overlapping slices 205
- P
  - package contents, viewing 352
  - pages
    - adding and removing 156
    - creating links between 197
    - duplicating 156
    - editing 156
    - exporting as image files 158
    - exporting to HTML 157
    - master 157
    - moving between 156
  - Pages panel 27
  - panels 27
    - Align 28
    - Auto Shapes Properties 28
    - Behaviors 28, 209
    - Create Symbol Script 28
    - docking 28
    - docking in panel group 29
    - Find 28
    - Find and Replace 331, 332
    - Frames 27, 242
    - hiding 29
    - History 27, 40
    - Image Editing 28
    - Info 28
    - Layer 159
    - Layers 27
    - Library 186
    - moving 28
    - opening custom layouts 30
    - Optimize 27
    - Options menu in 30
    - organizing 28
    - Pages 27
    - restoring default positions 29
    - saving custom layouts 30
    - Shapes 27
    - Special Characters 28
    - Styles 27, 183
    - Swatches 28, 127
    - Symbol Properties 28
    - Tools 25
    - undocking 28
    - undocking from panel group 28
    - URL 27, 196
    - using SWF movies as 345
  - panning 33
  - paragraph spacing 117
  - Paste Inside command 168
  - pasted images 19
  - pasting HTML 284
  - Path panel 107
  - paths 103
    - adding stroke texture 145
    - bending adjacent segments 99
    - changing adjacent segments 99
    - changing shape 99
    - converting straight to curved 97
    - copying and pasting 315
    - creating custom strokes 138
    - cropping 105
    - editing strokes 136
    - pulling 101
    - pushing 101
    - resetting default colors 127
    - selecting a point 98
    - splitting 104
    - swapping stroke and fill colors 127
  - pattern fills
    - adjusting 144
    - applying 141
    - moving 144
    - rotating 144
    - transforming 144
  - Pen tool 94
    - adding points with 99
    - curved segments 95
    - deleting points with 99
    - resuming path 99
    - straight segments 94
  - Pencil tool 63
  - perspective illusion 57
  - Photoshop
    - applying layer effects 151
    - applying plug-ins 151
    - customizing files for export 325
    - exporting to 325
    - grouped layers 164
    - import preferences 348
    - importing files into Adobe Fireworks 322
    - installing plug-ins 151
    - layer masks 171
    - patterns 348
    - plug-ins 324, 348
    - textures 348
  - Photoshop Acquire installation plug- ins 20
  - Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks
    - exporting PSD files from Adobe Fireworks 325
    - importing PSD files into Adobe Fireworks 323
  - Pick Distance preference 347
  - PICT file format 265
  - pie chart 87
  - Pie tool 87
  - pixels 14
    - adjusting tonal range using eyedropper 75
    - cloning 66
    - contracting selection border 49
    - copying 44
    - cutting 44
    - expanding selection border 49
    - feathering 65
    - moving 44
    - painting 63
    - selecting 44
    - selecting area around a marquee 50
    - selecting freeform area 45
    - selecting polygonal area 45
    - selecting similar colors 46
    - smoothing a marquee border 50
    - tonal range 72
  - playing
    - animations 246
    - macros 343
    - saved commands 343
  - plotting points 94
  - plug-ins 5, 324
    - in Adobe Store 7
  - PNG file format
    - choosing 265
    - choosing a color palette 266
    - transparency 311
  - point handles 96
    - displaying 98
  - Pointer tool 41, 44
  - points
    - adding 99
    - bending adjacent segments 99
    - changing adjacent segments 99
    - converting 97
    - converting straight to curved 97
    - deleting 99
    - moving 98
    - selecting 98
  - polygons 85, 87
  - pop-up menus 229
    - advanced properties 234
    - description 229
    - designing appearance 232
    - editing 236
    - entering menu text 230, 231
    - exporting 237
    - setting position 235
  - Precise Cursors preference 347
  - preferences 346
    - color defaults 346
    - default 348
    - editing options 347
    - Faster but less accurate sampling options 347
    - folder options 348
    - Import 323
    - import options 348
    - interpolation options 346
    - Launch and Edit 304
    - launch and edit options 347
    - Launch options 347
    - location of file 351
    - restoring defaults 348
    - setting 346
    - Undo Steps 346
  - Preview button 263
  - Preview Drag preference 347
  - previewing
    - documents in a browser 288
    - optimization settings 263, 264
    - pixels containing specific color 269
    - strokes 138
    - with Export Preview 258
  - previewing documents on different platforms 34
  - progressive JPEGs 274
  - properties, viewing in Property inspector 26
  - Property inspector 26, 43
    - collapsing 27
    - docking 26
    - expanding 26
    - masking with 176
    - reducing 26
    - selection information 42
    - undocking 26
    - working with text in 109
  - PSD files 17
    - opening from Adobe Fireworks 17
  - Punch command 105
- Q
  - Quick Export button 31, 288
  - Quick Export pop-up menu 289
- R
  - Radial Blur filter 80
  - raster images 61
  - read me file 2
  - rectangles 84
    - rounded corners 89
  - Red-eye Removal tool 66, 69
  - redoing using History panel 343
  - Redraw Path tool 102
  - redrawing paths 102
  - reducing points 105
  - registration of software 1
  - reinstalling Adobe Fireworks 352
  - relative URLs, entering 196
  - removing
    - effects 152
    - master page layers 157
    - parts of a path 105
  - renaming symbols 188
  - repeating actions 40
  - Replace color tool 66, 69, 70
  - replacing elements 330
  - replaying animations 246
  - resampling 19
    - bitmap objects 36
    - described 36
    - downsampling 36
    - resampling up 36
    - speed 347
    - vector objects 36
  - reshaping vector objects 102
  - Reveal All command 170
  - Reveal Selection command 170
  - RGB color model 130
  - rich graphic symbols 190
    - creating 190
    - viewing 190
  - rollovers 13
    - active area 226
    - converting to buttons 223
    - creating 220
    - defined 206
    - navigation bars 228
    - odd-shaped 202
    - simple 209
    - Simple Rollover behavior 209
    - swap image 207
  - rotating
    - constraining 56
    - objects 55
    - relocating axis of rotation 56
  - Rounded Rectangle tool 87, 89
  - rounded rectangles 85
  - Rubber Stamp tool 66
  - rulers 38
- S
  - saturation, adjusting 71
  - saving 276
    - animations 279
    - images 277
  - saving documents 22, 23
  - Scale tool 55
  - scaling
    - graphics 338
    - interpolation options 346
    - objects 55
  - scripting 343
    - editing scripts 344
    - Flash SWF files 344
  - scrolling the canvas 33
    - See also panning
  - searching 330
    - See also finding and replacing
  - segments, converting 97
  - selecting
    - adding to a pixel selection 47, 48
    - additional objects 43
    - alpha area 48
    - area around a marquee 50
    - canceling a selection 54
    - contracting a marquee border 49
    - deselecting a marquee 47
    - deselecting an object 43
    - expanding a marquee border 49
    - feathering a pixel selection 49
    - feathering edges 65
    - floating pixel selection 52
    - freeform area of pixels 45
    - grouped objects 58
    - images 44
    - inverting a pixel selection 49
    - overlapping areas of bitmaps 48
    - pixel areas 45
    - pixels 44
    - points 98
    - polygonal area of pixels 45
    - similar colors 46
    - smoothing a marquee border 50
    - subtracting from a pixel selection 47, 48
  - Selective JPEG compression 273
    - Enable Selective Quality 273
    - overlay color 273
    - preserve button quality 274
    - preserve text quality 274
  - Selective Quality button 273
  - Send Backward command 59
  - Send to Back command 59
  - sending documents as e-mail attachments 289
  - Set Nav Bar Image behavior 210
  - Set Pop-up Menu behavior 210
  - Set Text of Status Bar behavior 210
  - shadows 72, 150
  - shapes 14
  - Shapes panel 27
  - sharing layers 163
  - Sharpen filter 81
  - Sharpen More filter 81
  - Sharpen tool 66
  - sharpening 81
    - bitmap areas 66
    - images 67
  - shortcut sets 350
    - See also keyboard shortcuts
  - Show Fill Handles preference 347
  - Show Pen Preview preference 347
  - Show Solid Points preference 347
  - Show/Hide hotspots and slices 203
  - showing
    - edges 43
    - panels 29
    - rulers 38
    - toolbars 31
  - Simple Rollover behavior 209
  - simple rollovers 207
    - creating 209
  - Simplify command 106
  - simplifying paths 105
  - Skew tool 56
  - skewing objects 56
  - slanting objects 56
  - slice guides
    - changing color 203
    - removing 205
    - viewing 203
  - slices 13
    - auto-naming 213
    - changing color 203
    - creating 201
    - editing Adobe Fireworks table slices from Dreamweaver 299
    - exporting 277, 278
    - overlapping 205
    - polygon 202
    - resizing 204
    - showing or hiding slice overlay 264
    - text 201
    - updating 278
    - using nested tables 215
    - using spacer 215
  - slicing
    - definition 200
    - for interactivity 200
  - slideshow properties 252
  - slideshows, creating 250
  - Smart Polygon tool 87
  - Smooth command 50
  - Smudge tool 66
  - smudging
    - bitmap areas 66
    - images 68
  - Snap Distance preference 347
  - soft interpolation scaling method 346
  - software
    - activation 1
    - registration 1
  - software downloads 7
  - solid fills
    - adding texture to 146
    - applying 141
  - spacers 215
  - Special Characters panel 28
  - spell checking 124
  - Spiral tool 87
  - Split command 104
  - stacking objects 59
  - Standard Screen mode 33
  - Star tool 87
  - stars 85, 87
  - Start page 24
  - straight segments, editing 95
  - Stroke Color box 136
  - strokes 136
    - adding texture 145
    - changing centering 139
    - changing color of drawing tools 137
    - choosing 136
    - creating custom 138
    - drawing fill over 139
    - edges of 136
    - editing 136
    - finding and replacing 333
    - reorienting 139
    - resetting default color 127
    - saving settings 140
    - setting sensitivity 139
    - swapping stroke and fill colors 127
    - textures 136
  - styles
    - adding 184
    - applying 184
    - basing on existing styles 185
    - defined 183
    - deleting 185
    - editing 185
    - enlarging preview icons 186
    - exporting 185
    - importing 185
    - new 184
    - resetting to defaults 186
  - Styles panel 27, 183
  - Subselection tool
    - auto-joining paths with 100
    - selecting masks with 173
  - swap color palettes 134
  - Swap Image behavior 209
  - swap image rollovers
    - creating disjoint rollovers 208
    - with single slice 207
  - swap image, external images for 211
  - swatch group, choosing custom 128
  - Swatches panel 28, 127
    - appending swatches 128
    - deleting a color 129
    - replacing a color 129
    - saving custom 129
    - Windows system colors 128
  - swatches, choosing custom 128
  - SWF movies 345
  - symbol library 186
  - Symbol Properties panel 28
  - symbols
    - breaking a link 193
    - creating 186
    - defined 186
    - deleting 188
    - duplicating 188
    - editing 187, 193
    - editing graphics 241
    - exporting 195
    - importing 195
    - modifying 187
    - placing instances 187
    - placing instances in document 187
    - rich graphic 190
    - saving as rich graphic symbols 191
    - swapping 188
    - tweening 246
    - using 9-slice scaling 188
  - system color picker 131
  - system requirements 1
- T
  - text
    - adjusting character width 118
    - alignment 116
    - attributes, saving 119
    - checking spelling 124
    - color 113
    - direction of 116
    - entering 109
    - finding and replacing 332
    - formatting 112
    - indenting 117
    - orientation 116
    - overview 109
    - paragraph spacing 117
    - slices 201
    - Text Editor 125
  - text blocks
    - auto-sizing 111
    - fixed-width 111
    - moving 111
    - naming 110
    - resizing 111
  - text paths
    - attaching text to path 120
    - changing shape of path 120
    - converting text to path 122
    - detaching from path 120
    - editing text attached to a path 120
    - moving starting point of text 121
    - placing text on a path 121
  - text styles
    - bold 113
    - effects 119
    - fills 119
    - italic 113
    - strokes 119
    - underline 113
  - Text tool 109
  - texture
    - adding to fills 146
    - adding to strokes 145
  - thumbnails
    - in Layers panel 159
    - selecting masks with 173
  - TIFF file format, choosing 265
  - TIFF, saving 23
  - tonal range 72
    - adjusting with Curves 74
    - adjusting with Levels 72
  - tone, adjusting 71
  - toolbars
    - docking 31
    - showing and hiding 31
    - undocking 31
    - unlocking 31
  - tools
    - Blur 66
    - Brush 64
    - Burn 66
    - changing options 25
    - changing stroke color 137
    - Colors section in Tools panel 126
    - Distort 57
    - Dodge 66
    - Eraser 65
    - Eyedropper 64
    - Lasso 44
    - Magic Wand 44
    - Marquee 44
    - Oval Marquee 44
    - Pencil 63
    - Pointer 41, 44
    - Polygon Lasso 44
    - Red-eye Removal 66, 69
    - Replace Color 66, 69, 70
    - Rubber Stamp 66
    - Scale 55
    - Sharpen 66
    - Skew 56
    - Smudge 66
    - Subselection 100, 173
    - Text 109
    - tool group pop-up menus 26
    - Transform 54
    - Zoom 32
  - Tools panel 25
  - transformation tools
    - Distort 57
    - Scale 55
    - Skew 56
  - transforming
    - by dragging 54
    - gradient fills 144
    - numerically 57
    - objects 54
    - pattern fills 144
    - text 122
  - transparency 181, 271
    - adding or removing colors 272
    - animation 247
    - converting images to gradient transparency 81
    - illusion 132
    - in PNG files 311
    - selecting a color 271, 272
    - See also opacity
  - transparent areas 271
  - trimming the canvas 36
  - tryouts 7
  - Turn off Hide Edges preference 347
  - Tween Instances command 246
  - tweening
    - characteristics 246
    - defined 246
    - objects 246
  - typefaces. See fonts
- U
  - underlined text 112
  - undocking panels from panel group 28
  - undoing 40
    - setting number of undo steps 346
    - using History panel 343
  - ungrouping objects 58
  - uninstalling Adobe Fireworks 352
  - Union command 104
  - Unsharp Mask filter 82
  - Up button state 221
  - Update HTML command 285, 296
  - updates 7
  - updating slices 278
  - URL library 196
  - URL panel 27, 196
  - URLs
  - user configuration files 350, 351
  - user folder 350, 351
  - UTF-8 encoding 286, 350
- V
  - valid files, defined 335
  - vector graphics 14
  - vector masks 164
  - vector mode 12
    - drawing in 84
    - switching to 61
  - vector objects, reshaping 100
  - Video Workshop 4
  - view modes 33
  - viewing rich graphic symbols 190
- W
  - WAP graphics 17
    - See also WBMP files
  - WBMP files 17
  - Web Layer 163
  - web safe colors 133
  - websafe colors 270
  - When Editing From External Application preference 348
  - When Optimizing From External Application preference 348
  - Windows system colors as a swatch group 128
  - work environment 24
  - workflow in Adobe Fireworks 12
- X
  - XHTML 286
- Z
  - Zoom Blur filter 80
  - Zoom tool 32
  - zooming 31
    - into a specific area 32
    - using preset increments 32

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4 Specify a corner type: miter, round, or beveled.

5 If you chose miter, set the miter limit, the point at which a miter corner automatically becomes a beveled corner.

The miter limit is the ratio of miter corner length to stroke width.

6 Click OK.

A smaller or larger path object with the same stroke and fill attributes replaces the original path object.

Editing paths using the Path panel

The path panel provides quick access to a number of path related commands. You can use the tools on this panel to

speed up path editing tasks.

To open the Path panel:

❖ Select Window > Others > Path.

The Path panel contains the tools shown below.

Icon Function

Path tools

Join paths

Split paths

Union paths

Intersect paths

Punch paths

Divide paths

Crop paths

Simplify paths

Expand paths