Intro / Whats new in Fireworks MX
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Fireworks MX has many new features and enhancements that make it an even more valuable tool in your tool chest. The new features in Firework MX make it an increasingly approachable application with enhanced power to create graphics and interactivity for web sites, CD-ROMs, kiosks and a variety of applications. Fireworks MX has undergone major refinement, with a streamlined user interface, more powerful button and popup menu capabilities, an intuitive bitmap and vector editing tools. Integration with other Macromedia applications as well as third party applications makes it easy to bring in various file formats into Fireworks and send them to other applications smoothly as you work. Also new to Fireworks is the ability to create JavaScript commands with Macromedia Flash that appears in Fireworks MX as panels or dialogue boxes. Fireworks MX also offers a variety of easy to use features, including a comfortable intuitive work environment with a property inspector and other tools that work the way professionals would expect - making Fireworks MX easy an application to learn and get to work with quickly. Panel management enhancements include the ability to place panels in groups and then collapse the groups, so that only the panel group title bar is visible until you need to use the panels. You can dock panels groups in the panel docking area to organize your workspace, or drag groups or individual panels anywhere you want to within the workspace. The new property inspectors are dynamic panels full of options that change the way you do your work. Open a document, and the property inspector displays the document properties such as the canvas color and size. Choose a tool from the tool panel, and the property inspector displays the various tool options. Select a vector object or bitmap object, and it displays additional information. You can change these and other options including live effects, blending modes, opacity directly from the property inspector. Instead of having to click through or reopen panels after panel. The property inspector familiar to macromedia dream weaver and Flash users reduces the number of panels in the workspace. Fireworks now has modeless bitmap and vector editing, eliminating the need to constantly keep up with the vector and bitmap modes. Simply choosing a tool or selecting an object type automatically determines whether you will be creating and editing bitmaps, vectors, or text. Bitmap editing enhancements give you too intuitive capabilities to create bitmaps by cutting or copying and pasting, to move marquee selections among bitmaps, and to fine-tune images with a new group of image retouching tools. Also, common selection commands are organized in a new selection menu. Tool panel selections that separate the tools used for creating and editing bitmaps, vectors and web objects offer cues for intuitively choosing the proper tool and achieving predictable creative results. The quick export button displays convenient options for exporting in a variety of file formats or HTML styles. Or launching other macromedia products from the document window, eliminating setup time and streamlining the workflow. On screen text allows you to visually integrate text and graphics without having to use the text editor. Simply choose the text tool, click on the canvas and start typing. In the property inspector, you can either set text attributes for the text tool before you began typing, or highlight existing text and then format it. Variable zooming lets you drag the magnify tool to determine the precise magnification amount. After you drag to magnify your document, the magnification amount is displayed in the set magnification text box at the bottom of the document. Users with Windows XP or Macintosh OSX will see new compatibility, which takes advantage of the latest operating systems. Fireworks MX is fully carbonized to support all of OSX user interface improvements. XHTML exporting allows you to export, update, and round-trip XHTML in the same styles Fireworks offers for HTML. You can round-trip legacy documents that have been converted to XHTML in Dreamweaver MX. The answers panel, a new feature in Fireworks MX, Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX is an updateable link to web content conveniently located in the Fireworks workspace. When you are online, you can click the update button and download fresh reference information from macromedia. Or search online databases for documentation such as Tech notes. Fireworks now has a spell checker that searches every text block in your document for misspelled words. When it finds a word it doesn't recognize, it offers suggestions for correcting it, or allows you to add it to you dictionary. Cross platform font caching make it easy to share files among workgroups and clients without worrying about cross-platform font issues. Fireworks maintains the appearance of all text in a document on systems that do not have the same fonts in the document. Fireworks MX now offers a powerful new creative and automation features that emerging web designers will find easy to use, and experienced developers will appreciate. These features make Fireworks an essential part of web design and developer process from concept to integration. The data driven graphics wizard allows you to assign variables to text, images, hotspots and slices. And then generate multiple documents based on the original, each with unique information taken from a comma (?) delimited or XML database file. The nav bar builder on the command menu automates the process of quickly creating navigation bars, using convenient Fireworks MX button symbols. You can select an instance of a button symbol, and then choose a number of copies to make. Choose vertical or horizontal orientation and spacing, and assign button labels and URL's in an integrated dialogue box. The popup menu editor enhancements have added creative control to the most popular new feature in Fireworks 4. You can now create horizontal or vertical popup menus and determine border characteristics, cell spacing, and cell size independent from the text size. You can also set placement of menus relative to the trigger object. As well as placement of submenus relative to the trigger menu item or main popup menu. Fireworks automatically generates the JavaScript code for you; exported menus are fully compatible with Dreamweaver MX. rigger object. As well as placement of submenus relative to the trigger menu item or main popup menu. Fireworks automatically generates the JavaScript code for you; exported menus are fully compatible with Dreamweaver MX.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Macromedia Fireworks MX |
| Author: | Scott Doucet |
| SKU: | 33407 |
| ISBN: | 1932072179 |
| Release Date: | 2003-01-08 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 81 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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