Getting Started with Fireworks
Formats
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Fireworks: Select Help > Getting Started with Fireworks
Audience
This manual is intended for beginning Fireworks users.
Description
This guide introduces you to using Macromedia Fireworks 8. It also includes
four tutorials that lead you through the process of creating web graphics.
The tutorials teach you how to perform the following tasks with
Fireworks:
- Import and place images into graphics
- Draw and manipulate vector shapes
- Batch process images files
- Optimize and export image files
- Work with text, frames, layers, shapes, and masks
- Slice images
- Create rollovers, buttons, and pop-up menus
Using Fireworks
Formats
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Fireworks: Select Help > Using Fireworks
Audience
This manual is intended for all Fireworks users.
Description
This user guide contains comprehensive, task-based information on all the
features to help you design and edit web graphics with Fireworks.
You’ll learn to use the wide range of tools in Fireworks to perform the
following tasks:
- Create and edit both bitmap and vector images within a single file
- Design web effects such as rollovers and pop-up menus
- Crop and optimize graphics to reduce their file size
- Save time by automating repetitive tasks
- Export or save your documents in a variety of file formats, or export them
for use in another application such as Macromedia Flash
Extending Fireworks
Formats
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Fireworks: Select Help > Extending Fireworks
Audience
This manual is intended for advanced users who want to build extensions or
customize the Fireworks user interface.
Description
This manual describes the Fireworks framework and application programming
interface (API), which includes the custom JavaScript functions that are built
into Fireworks. With this manual, you’ll learn to write your own objects and
commands to customize or extend Fireworks. To accomplish these tasks, you must
be proficient in JavaScript and Fireworks.
You’ll learn to write your own objects and commands to customize or extend
Fireworks. To accomplish these tasks, you must be proficient in JavaScript and
Fireworks.
This guide teaches you how to do many tasks with the Fireworks API, including
the following:
- Use the Fireworks Object Model
- Write cross-product extensions (extensions written in, or for, other
Macromedia applications)
- Create Auto Shapes using the JavaScript Auto Shape construction
Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
Formats
Download
ZIP
Audience
This file is intended for advanced users who want to build
Fireworks extensions.
Description
The RPC mechanism exposes the Fireworks JavaScript DOM via
XML and sockets. It allows other applications to access functionality previously
restricted to JavaScript programs running inside of Fireworks.
Nearly anything that can be done by a
JavaScript program running inside of Fireworks can be done by an application
through Fireworks RPC. For example, an application running on the same machine
as Fireworks can open Fireworks documents, slice them, optimize them, and then
export them; or the application can create a new Fireworks document, draw into
it, and then preview it in a browser.
This downloadable zip file contains client stubs for C++ and ActionScript 2,
and a complete description of the Fireworks API.
