Working With Photoshop - Adobe 65011817 - Fireworks CS4 - Mac Using Manual

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USING FIREWORKS CS4
Using Fireworks with other applications
The group is preserved and the individual grouped objects come in as drawing objects.
Groups
Graphs are imported as groups, and they lose their special editability as graphs.
Graphs
Illustrator primitives are actually paths, so they are not imported as Fireworks primitives.
Primitives
Patterns are imported as individual tiles. These tiles are imported as a native pattern in Fireworks and the
Patterns
pattern is assigned to the drawing object.
Brush strokes are imported as multiple groups (one group per closed path).
Brush Strokes
Symbols are imported as normal group objects.
Symbols
Fireworks imports object opacity correctly, preserving object transparency settings at the original
Transparency
Illustrator values.
Fireworks imports all sublayers as native Fireworks sublayers.
Sub Layers
Importing Illustrator files containing multiple artboards
You can open an Illustrator CS4 file containing multiple artboards by doing one of the following:
Use the File > Import option to import Adobe Illustrator files
Importing the Illustrator CS4 file into Fireworks
containing multiple artboards when you want to import artboards individually.
When you import an Adobe Illustrator CS4 file containing multiple artboards, the Page menu is enabled in the Vector
File Options dialog box. Select the artboard that you want to import in the Page menu. Each artboard in Illustrator is
mapped to a page in Fireworks. For example, artboards 1, 2, and 3 in the Adobe Illustrator File appear as 1, 2, and 3 in
the Page menu.
To open all the artboards in an Illustrator file, select File > Open, and
Opening the Illustrator CS4 file in Fireworks
open the Illustrator file containing the artboards. Because all the artboards are imported as separate pages, the File
Conversion options are disabled in the Vector File Options dialog box.
Note: File conversion options are disabled when you import Illustrator files from versions previous to CS3, and for
Illustrator files with a single artboard.

Working with Photoshop

Fireworks imports native Photoshop (PSD) files and retains many Photoshop features. You can also export Fireworks
graphics to Photoshop for detailed image editing.
Place Photoshop images in Fireworks
You place Photoshop images into Fireworks using the File > Import and File > Open commands, or by dragging files
to the canvas. The Import command provides access to unique options for the background layer and layer folders. By
contrast, the Open command and file dragging method provide access to options for guides and states.
More Help topics
"Photoshop Import and open preferences" on page 281
Last updated 3/8/2011