Exporting Your Animation; Setting The Animation Repetition; Setting Transparency - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

Exporting your animation

After you set up the symbols and frames that make up your animation, you are ready to export
the file as an animation. Before you export the files, you need to enter a few settings to make
your animation load more easily and play more smoothly. You can set playback settings like
looping and transparency and then use optimization to make your exported file smaller and
easier to download.
If you plan to import your animation into Macromedia Flash for further editing, you do not
need to export it. Flash can directly import Fireworks PNG source files. For more
information, see

Setting the animation repetition

The Loop setting in the Frames panel determines how many times the animation repeats.
This feature loops frames over and over so you can minimize the number of frames needed to
build the animation.
To set the selected animation to repeat:
1. Select Window > Frames to display the Frames panel.
2. Click the GIF Animation Looping button at the bottom of the panel.
3.
Select the number of times to repeat the animation after the first time.
If you select 4, for example, the animation plays five times in all. Forever repeats the
animation continuously.

Setting transparency

As part of the optimization process, you can have one or more colors in an animated GIF be
displayed as transparent in a web browser. This is useful when you want a web page
background color or image to show through the animation.
To display a color as transparent in a web browser:
1.
Select Window > Optimize if the Optimize panel is not visible.
2. From the Transparency pop-up menu in the Optimize panel, select either Index
Transparency or Alpha Transparency. For a description of these options, see
transparent" on page
3.
Use the transparency tools in the Optimize panel to select colors for transparency.
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