Macromedia dreamweaver 8-using dreamweaver User Manual

Working with Fireworks

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In Fireworks, make the desired edits in the Optimization dialog box:

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To edit optimization settings, click the Options tab. For more information, 
see Using Fireworks. 

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To edit the size and area of the exported image, click the File tab.

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When you are finished editing the image, click Update. 

Clicking Update exports the image using the new optimization settings, updates the GIF 
or JPEG placed in Dreamweaver, and saves the PNG source file if a source file was 
selected. 

If you changed the format of the image, the Dreamweaver link checker prompts you to 
update references to the image. For example, if you changed the format of an image called 
my_image from GIF to JPEG, clicking OK at this prompt changes all references to 
my_image.gif in your site to my_image.jpg.

Using Fireworks to modify Dreamweaver image 
placeholders

You can create a placeholder image in a Dreamweaver document and then start Fireworks to 
design a graphic image or Fireworks table to replace it. For information about inserting an 
image placeholder, see 

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To create a new image from an image placeholder, you must have both Dreamweaver and 
Fireworks installed on your system. 

To edit a Dreamweaver placeholder image in Fireworks:

1.

Make sure you’ve already set Fireworks as the image editor for .png files. For information, 
see 

 in Using Dreamweaver. 

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In the Document window, click the image placeholder to select it.

3.

Do one of the following to start Fireworks for editing:

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In the Property inspector, click Create. 

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Press Control (Windows) or Command (Macintosh) then double-click the 
image placeholder.

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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the image placeholder, then 
select Create Image in Fireworks.

Fireworks starts in Editing from Dreamweaver mode.