MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 282

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Soft interpolation, which was used in Fireworks 1, gives a soft blur and eliminates sharp details.
This method is useful when others produce unwanted artifacts.
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Nearest Neighbor interpolation results in jagged edges and sharp contrasts with no blurring.
The effect is similar to zooming in or out on an image with the Zoom tool.
Workspace: Show Tab Icons
graphical icons on panel tabs that were visible in previous versions of Fireworks. This option also
affects the display of the Mini-Launcher at the bottom of the Document window.
Saving files: Add Preview Icons (Macintosh only)
Fireworks PNG files on your hard disk. Deselecting this option displays the traditional Fireworks
icon used for Fireworks PNG files. This option takes effect after you save the file.
Editing preferences
The editing preferences control pointer appearance and visual cues for working with
bitmap objects.
Precise Cursors
Delete Objects While Cropping
bounding box of a selection when you choose Edit > Crop Document or Modify > Canvas >
Canvas Size.
Brush Size Painting Cursors
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
working with bitmap objects (bitmap mode).
Show Pen Preview
at that moment with the Pen tool.
Show Solid Points
Turn off "Hide Edges"
lets you specify how close to an object the pointer must be before you can select it.
Pick Distance
Pick Distance can be between 1 and 10 pixels.
Snap Distance
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, Macromedia Director, and Microsoft FrontPage, 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.
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is deselected by default. It allows you to display or hide the
replaces tool icon pointers with the cross-hair pointer.
permanently deletes pixels or objects that are outside the
sets the size and shape of the Brush, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen, Dodge,
places the familiar striped border around the entire canvas when you are
provides a preview of the next path segment that will be created if you click
shows selected points as hollow and deselected points as solid.
automatically disables Hide Edges when the selection changes.
lets you specify how close the object you are moving must be before it snaps to a
allows you to display or hide thumbnails of