User Guide

What’s new in Fireworks 8 11
Save time and effort with the many refinements made to common tasks.
For more information on the new features, see the Fireworks page on the Macromedia website
at www.macromedia.com/go/fireworks.
Special Characters panel Use this new panel to insert special characters directly into text
blocks.
Reshape text on a path Edit path points when text is attached. See “Editing paths and
text attached to paths” on page 158
.
Workflow Improvements
Recent Fonts &
Optimization remember last
settings used
Recently used fonts now appear at the top of font menus.
Optimization now defaults to the last settings used. See
“Saving and reusing optimization settings” on page 351.
Save multiple selections Save, restore, name and delete multiple marquee selections
within PNG files. See “Saving marquee selections” on page 64.
Select objects that share an
edge in the Layers panel
Shift-click to select objects that share an edge or boundary in
the layers panel.
Autosave preferences Fireworks 8 preferences are automatically saved more
frequently.
Group consecutive nudges Consecutive nudges are treated as one move.
Improved tablet support Tablet support is improved for Path Scrubber tools and stroke
pressure sensitivity.
Lock objects Lock on a per-object basis in the Layers panel. See “Protecting
layers and objects” on page 207.
Create without complexity