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If you have page elements that you want to be shared in common across all of your pages, you can use something that Adobe documentation refers to as "Master Pages." Here I have a master page and the contents of that master page are this interface area up on the top. The visibility of the master page layer can be toggled by clicking the I-icon to the left of the master page layer in the layer's panel, a little bit tricky. Click on the Layers panel. Now I'm going to hide that layer with my Master Page content. Let's go back to the pages tab here and notice that in these two, linked and unlinked pages, my master page content is now missing. Let's go back and turn that back on again. And notice if I go back to Pages, the content is there. Notice that the difference between Page 2 and linked and unlinked is the text content that I've added that's unique to that particular page. When a master page is created, a master page layer is added to the bottom of the layer hierarchy for each page. This layer can be removed by selecting Remove Master Page Layer, from the Options menu in the Layer's Panel. Notice that there is the layer there, the Layer 2, that contains the master page content. And I'm toggling it on and off from there, as well. I can remove that layer by choosing from the Contextual Menu up here in the Options corner. Notice that there's an Option, Remove Master Page Layer. When you convert an ordinary page to a master page, notice that it moves that master page to the top in the list there of the Pages panel. Also, it changes it to this gray color, making it more obvious that that's the Master Page. To create a master page, in the Pages panel, select the page that you've already created, and then choose from the Options menu up here, Set as Master Page. Setting this page as Master will remove master page layer from it, existing master page content will be reset, click OK to proceed, and let's go ahead and click OK, and notice that there now is my Master Page with that text content. It's overlapping now the other text content that I had here in the unlinked page. The Master Page cannot have shared layers, so when you make a page into a master page, any shared layers are removed from it and changed to ordinary, or non-shared layers. That was essentially the error message, or the warning message that Fireworks gave me. After a master page is created any additional pages that are created inherit the master page settings, such as canvas color and size. Pages that already existed do not inherit these settings unless they are linked to the master page. In addition, if the master page settings are later changed, none of the other pages will inherit these changes unless they are linked to the master page. Let me go back and set my Page 2 as the Master Page. This tends to work better for the examples that I'm going to show you next. Let's go ahead and set this as Master Page. It's warning me that the Master Page layer will be removed, so now I have linked and unlinked pages here. Let me next describe this process of linking and unlinking pages to the master page. Let's take my linked page and actually link it to my Master Page by clicking in this column right here. You can also perform this linkage by selecting the page and choosing from the Options menu here, Link to Master Page, or if it's already linked, as this one is, choose Unlink from Master Page. So let's go back and link that linked page to my Master Page. And now I'm going to make a change. For example, let's delete this menu bar along the top and notice that here in the linked page it's deleted. Notice that both pages are now missing that menu bar. Let's go ahead and Undo that change. There we go. Now that's back. However, if I go to my Master Page, and let's change the canvas color here to dark blue color. Notice that the linked page also has a canvas color blue, but the unlinked page does not. So those are the differences between the types of things that will be changed when linked, and those that will not be. I can also go ahead, here, and change my canvas size, and that would also change the canvas size of my linked page, but not the unlinked one. But perhaps the best advantage of the Master Page is that when you do create extra pages, those contents of the Master Page are added. Let's say, for example, I wanted this menu system to be visible on all my pages, so I would simply go ahead and add a new page, and notice that the canvas color is blue, and I get all the content from my master page on that new page, which is now labeled Page 1. Let's go ahead and change my Master Page canvas color back to white. Again, because Page 1 is not linked to my Master Page, its canvas color does not go back to white. However, as soon as I link it, the canvas color now is white. Let's add one more page, Page 3, and it has the exact same content as Page 1. So now I can go into Page 1 and Page 3 and add perhaps more text content here, complementing these other pages that are now part of this Master Page. So there you have a quick review of how to work with Master Pages in Fireworks CS3. Let me now move on to the next movie and demonstrate how to export your pages to HTML files.
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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