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CHAPTER 14
Preferences and Keyboard Shortcuts
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 preference settings let you control the general appearance of the
user interface, as well as editing and folder aspects. In addition, Fireworks allows you to customize
your keyboard shortcuts. This means that you can customize your shortcuts and standardize them
among your favorite software programs.
Setting preferences
Fireworks has preference settings that control the general appearance of the user interface as well
as options related to specific features such as default colors, tool options, folder locations, and
file conversions.
To set preferences:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Fireworks > Preferences (Macintosh).
2 Select the preferences group you wish to modify: General, Editing, Launch and Edit, Folders,
or Import.
3 Make your changes and click OK.
General preferences
The following options are on the General preferences tab:
Undo Steps sets undo/redo steps to a number between 0 and 1009. This setting applies to both
the Edit > Undo command and the History panel. A large number of undos can increase the
amount of memory Fireworks requires. You must restart Fireworks for the change in this setting
to take effect.
Color Defaults sets the default colors for brush strokes, fills, and highlight paths. The Stroke and
Fill options do not automatically change the colors displayed in the color boxes of the Tools
panel; they allow you to change the default colors that are specified by the Set Default Stroke/Fill
Colors button in the Tools panel.
Interpolation sets one of four different scaling methods that Fireworks uses to interpolate pixels
when images are scaled:
• Bicubic interpolation gives the sharpest and highest quality most of the time and is the default
scaling method.
• Bilinear interpolation gives sharper results than Soft interpolation but not as sharp as Bicubic.