Table of Contents
Advertisement
Chapter 18: Preferences and Keyboard
Shortcuts
Fireworks CS3 preference settings let you control the general appearance of the user interface, as well as editing and
folder aspects. In addition, Fireworks allows you to customize your keyboard shortcuts. This means that you can
customize your shortcuts and standardize them among your favorite software programs.
This chapter covers the following topics:
• "Setting preferences" on page 346
• "Changing keyboard shortcut sets" on page 349
• "Working with configuration files" on page 350
• "About reinstalling Fireworks" on page 351
• "Viewing package contents (Macintosh only)" on page 352
Setting preferences
Fireworks has preference settings that control the general appearance of the user interface as well as options related
to specific features such as default colors, tool options, folder locations, and file conversions.
To set preferences:
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Fireworks > Preferences (Macintosh).
1
2
Select the preferences group you wish to modify: General, Editing, Launch and Edit, Folders, or Import.
Make your changes and click OK.
3
General preferences
The following options are on the General preferences tab:
sets undo/redo steps to a number between 0 and 1009. This setting applies to both the Edit > Undo
Undo Steps
command and the History panel. A large number of undos can increase the amount of memory Fireworks requires.
You must restart Fireworks for the change in this setting to take effect.
sets the default colors for brush strokes, fills, and highlight paths. The Stroke and Fill options do not
Color Defaults
automatically change the colors displayed in the color boxes of the Tools panel; they allow you to change the default
colors that are specified by the Set Default Stroke/Fill Colors button in the Tools panel.
sets one of four different scaling methods that Fireworks uses to interpolate pixels when images are
Interpolation
scaled:
• Bicubic interpolation gives the sharpest and highest quality most of the time and is the default scaling method.
• Bilinear interpolation gives sharper results than Soft interpolation but not as sharp as Bicubic.
• 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.
346
Advertisement
Table of Contents
