Chapter 10: Using Styles, Symbols, And Urls - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

CHAPTER 10
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Using Styles, Symbols,
and URLs
Macromedia Fireworks 8 provides three panels in which you can store and reuse styles,
symbols, and URLs. Styles are stored in the Styles panel, symbols are stored in the Library
panel, and URLs are stored in the URL panel. By default, all three panels are organized in the
Assets panel group.
The Styles panel contains a set of predefined Fireworks styles to select from. In addition, if
you have created a combination of strokes, fills, filters, and text attributes and want to reuse it,
you can save the attributes as a style. Rather than rebuilding attributes each time, you can
simply save them in the Styles panel and then apply that combination of attributes to other
objects.
Fireworks has three types of symbols: graphic, animation, and button. Each has unique
characteristics for its specific use. You can create new symbols, as well as duplicate, import,
and edit symbols, using the Library panel. For information on specific features built into the
animation and button symbols, see Chapter 13, "Creating Animation," on page 307 and
Chapter 12, "Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus," on page 281.
A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is an address of a specific page o r file on the Internet.
If you are using the same URL many times, you can add it to the URL panel. You can
organize and group your URLs in URL libraries.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Using styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236
Using symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Working with URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
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