User Guide

Setting preferences 447
Brush Size Painting Cursors sets the size and shape of the Brush, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen,
Dodge, Burn, and Smudge tool pointers to accurately reflect what you are about to draw or
erase. For certain large multi-tipped brushes, the cross-hair pointer is used by default. When
this option and Precise Cursors are turned off, tool icon pointers are displayed.
Display Striped Border places the familiar striped border around the entire canvas when you
are working with bitmap objects (bitmap mode).
Show Pen Preview provides a preview of the next path segment that will be created if you
click at that moment with the Pen tool.
Show Solid Points shows selected points as hollow and deselected points as solid.
Turn off “Hide Edges” automatically disables Hide Edges when the selection changes.
Pick Distance lets you specify how close to an object the pointer must be before you can
select it. Pick Distance can be between 1 and 10 pixels.
Snap Distance lets you specify how close the object you are moving must be before it snaps
to a grid or guide line. Snap Distance works when Snap to Grid or Snap to Guides is turned
on. Snap Distance can be between 1 and 10 pixels.
Launch and Edit preferences
By setting launch-and-edit preferences, you can control how external applications, such as
Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Director launch and edit graphics in Fireworks.
In most cases, Fireworks attempts to locate the source PNG for a graphic on its own. When it
can’t locate the source PNG, Fireworks uses the launch-and-edit preferences that you set to
determine how it will handle locating the source PNG file.
When Editing from External Application determines whether the original Fireworks PNG
file opens when you use Fireworks to edit images from within other applications.
When Optimizing from External Application determines whether the original Fireworks
PNG file opens when you optimize a graphic.
For more information on working with Fireworks graphics within Flash, see “Working with
Macromedia Flash” on page 392.
NOTE
Macromedia Flash is an exception. When launching and editing graphics in Flash,
Fireworks always uses the preferences you set in the Launch and Edit section of the
Preferences dialog box.
NOTE
This setting does not apply to Director, which always automatically opens and optimizes
a graphic without asking for a source PNG, even if you set this preference differently in
Fireworks.