Adobe Fireworks CS3 Tutorials
Exporting / Working with Illustrator Files
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Fireworks provides support for importing native Illustrator CS2, and CS3 files. That will be the AI file format with options for retaining many aspects of the imported files including layers, patterns, and linked images. As a result, you can bring Illustrator images into Fireworks for further editing and Web optimization. You can also export Illustrator files from Fireworks that are compatible with the Illustrator 8 software. These listed features will all be preserved when importing Illustrator files into Fireworks. The number and position of Bezier points, colors, the following text and font attributes will be preserved, including font sizes; colors; bold; italic; alignments: left, right, center, and justify; orientation, including horizontal, vertical, left to right, and vertical right to left; letter spacing; character positions of normal, superscript, and subscript; auto kerning, and kerning pairs. Gradients will be imported as native Fireworks gradients. All of the ramp points of the gradient will be preserved. Images including Illustrator AI files that contain linked files and placed files for the following types: PDF, BMP, EPS, GIF, JPG, JPG2000, PICT, PCX, PCD, PSD, PXR, PNG, TGA, and TIF. Embedded images are brought into Fireworks as raster images. Linked images are preserved as linked bitmaps in Fireworks. Fireworks also supports the import of clipping masks with paths and compound paths. Filled strokes are imported as a single drawing object. Filled paths are imported as a single drawing object as well. Compound paths are imported as well as a single drawing object. The group is preserved and the individual grouped objects come in as drawing objects. Graphs are imported as groups, but they lose their special editability as graphs. Illustrator primitives are actually paths so they are not imported as Fireworks primitives. Patterns are imported as individual tiles. These tiles will be imported as native patterns in Fireworks and the pattern will be assigned to the drawing object. Brush strokes are imported as multiple groups; one group per closed path. Symbols will be imported as normal group objects. Fireworks will also import object opacity correctly, preserving object transparency settings at the original Illustrator values. And lastly, Fireworks imports all sub-layers as native Fireworks sub-layers. That'll conclude this very important section on exporting your graphics from Fireworks. In this section you've learned all about how to publish your Fireworks files, how to set slice export controls, and also HTML export options. You've learned how to define how HTML tables will be exported as well as how to export to CSS layers. You've learned all about working with Dreamweaver including how to insert Fireworks images into Dreamweaver. You've learned how to work with Flash and Photoshop files, and finally, you learned how to work with Illustrator files. Let me now move on to the next movie and conclude this tutorial with a final wrap up.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Fireworks CS3 |
| Author: | James Gonzalez |
| SKU: | 33836 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-42-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-01-25 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 93 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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