User Guide

Chapter 134
To open a second document view:
1 Choose Window > New Window.
2 Change the view and magnification of the new
document window.
To close a document view window, click the window’s
close box.
Optimizing document redraw
Choose one of two view modes from the View menu:
Full Display or Draft Display. View modes affect a
document’s on-screen representation, not its object data
or output quality.
When in Draft Display, switch to Full Display by
choosing View > Full Display or by using the Display
Mode pop-up on the View Controls toolbar
(Windows) or in the lower-left corner of the document
window (Macintosh).
Choosing a display mode
Note: For easier editing, objects selected while in Draft
Display mode display in full detail.
A Case Study: With and
Without Fireworks
Before Fireworks, creating graphics for the web involved
several applications, with each contributing to a portion
of the task. Imagine that a web designer named Diana is
asked by a client to create an artist’s palette to serve as a
navigation graphic on a web page. The graphic will be
used to link to other places on the client’s web site and
must contain rich textures and effects to capture the
viewer’s attention. Accordingly, the graphic must
contain web-safe colors, text, textures, Live Effects, and
hotspot links.
How Diana approaches this task without
Fireworks:
1 Create a line drawing of an artist’s palette using
an application, such as Macromedia FreeHand.
2 Import the vector graphic into an image-editing
application, such as Adobe Photoshop, to
rasterize the graphic (convert the vectors to
pixels).
3 Apply third-party filter effects, such as bevels and
drop shadows.
4 Use a utility, such as Equilibrium DeBabelizer, to
convert the image to a web-safe color palette in
the proper graphics file format with an
optimized size.
5 Painstakingly add hotspot objects or animation
using yet another application.
6 Manually attach hyperlinks to the hotspots that
link to the client’s web pages.
7 View the results of this process in a web browser.
Unfortunately, if the graphic has the slightest flaw,
Diana must often begin again and redo every step to
reproduce the graphic. In adjusting file-size
optimization, Diana may need to retrace all or some of
these steps. Even if the result is acceptable to the
designer, client-driven changes such as text edits may
result in repeating these steps many times until the final
product is complete.
Choose To
Full Display Display the document in all
available colors with full
detail.
Draft Display Display paths as one pixel
wide with no fill. Each image
object appears as an X-box.
Display controls
(Windows)