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Last updated 11/30/2015
Optimize a Fireworks image from Dreamweaver
You can use Dreamweaver to make quick changes to Fireworks images and animations. From within Dreamweaver, you
can change optimization settings, animation settings, and the size and area of the exported image.
1 In Dreamweaver, select the desired image and do one of the following:
• Select Command > Optimize Image
• Click the Edit Image Settings button in the Property inspector.
2 Make your edits in the Image Preview dialog box:
• To edit optimization settings, click the Options tab.
• To edit the size and area of the exported image, click the File tab.
3 When you finish, click OK.
Use 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.
To create a new image from an image placeholder, you must have both Dreamweaver and Fireworks installed on your
system.
1 Make sure you’ve already set Fireworks as the image editor for PNG files.
2 In the Document window, click the image placeholder to select it.
3 Start Fireworks in Editing From Dreamweaver mode by doing one of the following:
• In the Property inspector, click Create.
• Press Control (Windows) or Command (Macintosh) then double-click the image placeholder.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the image placeholder, then select Create Image In
Fireworks.
4 Use Fireworks options to design the image.
Fireworks recognizes the following image placeholder settings you may have set while working with the image
placeholder in Dreamweaver: image size (which correlates to Fireworks canvas size), image ID (which Fireworks
uses as the default document name for the source file and export file you create), and text alignment. Fireworks also
recognizes links and certain behaviors (such as swap image, pop-up menu, and set text) you attached to the image
placeholder while working in Dreamweaver.
Note: Although Fireworks doesn’t show links you’ve added to an image placeholder, they are preserved. If you draw a
hotspot and add a link in Fireworks, it will not delete the link you added to the image placeholder in Dreamweaver;
however, if you cut out a slice in Fireworks in the new image, Fireworks will delete the link in the Dreamweaver
document when you replace the image placeholder.
Fireworks doesn’t recognize the following image placeholder settings: image alignment, color, Vspace and Hspace,
and maps. They are disabled in the image placeholder Property inspector.
5 When you finish, click Done to display the save prompt.
6 In the Save In text box, select the folder you defined as your Dreamweaver local site folder.
If you named the image placeholder when you inserted it in the Dreamweaver document, Fireworks populates the
File Name box with that name. You can change the name.
7 Click Save to save the PNG file.