Optimizing Your Work Environment For Fireworks And Flash; Working With Fireworks - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-USING DREAMWEAVER Use Manual

Optimizing your work environment for Fireworks and Flash

The key to developing a smoothly integrated workflow with Fireworks or Flash is to optimize
your work environment.
To optimize your work environment for Fireworks and Flash:
Make sure Design Notes are enabled for your Dreamweaver site.
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Design Notes are automatically enabled unless you alter your default site settings. For
information about enabling Design Notes, see
site" on page
Flash integration" on page
To easily start Fireworks from Dreamweaver, set Fireworks as the primary external image editor
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for Dreamweaver.
Set Fireworks as the primary editor for your graphic file types—GIF, PNG, and JPEG files. For
more information, see
editor preferences in Dreamweaver Help.
Save your Fireworks and Flash source and web-ready files in your defined Dreamweaver
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site folder.
This ensures that any user sharing the site will be able to locate the source document
when editing a Fireworks image or table or when editing a SWF movie while working
in Dreamweaver.
When exporting your Fireworks image files, export them to the Dreamweaver site folder.
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When you export a GIF or JPEG graphic from Fireworks to a Dreamweaver site folder,
Fireworks creates a folder named _notes in the same folder. This folder contains the Design
Notes that Dreamweaver needs to work with Fireworks.

Working with Fireworks

Dreamweaver and Fireworks recognize and share many of the same file-editing procedures,
including changes to links, image maps, table slices, and more. Together, the two applications
provide a streamlined workflow for editing, optimizing, and placing web graphics files
in HTML pages.
Inserting a Fireworks image
Fireworks graphics can be placed in a Dreamweaver document a number of ways. You can place a
Fireworks exported graphic directly in a Dreamweaver document using the Insert Image
command, or you can create a new Fireworks graphic from a Dreamweaver image placeholder (see
"Using Fireworks to modify Dreamweaver image placeholders" on page
To insert a Fireworks image into a Dreamweaver document:
In the Dreamweaver document, place the insertion point where you want the image to appear,
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then do one of the following:
Select Insert > Image.
In the Common category of the Insert bar, click the Image button or drag it to
the document.
Navigate to the desired Fireworks exported file, and click OK (Windows) or Open (Macintosh).
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Note: If the Fireworks file is not in the current Dreamweaver site, a message appears asking
whether you want to copy the file to the root folder. Click Yes.
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108. For information on the role of Design Notes, see
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"Using an external image editor" on page 313
"Enabling and disabling Design Notes for a
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or Setting external image
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