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Working with Macromedia Fireworks 133
Editing Director cast members in Fireworks
Using launch-and-edit integration, you can make changes to Director cast members by starting
Fireworks and editing them from inside Director. You can also start Fireworks from inside
Director to optimize cast members.
To start Fireworks and edit a Director cast member:
1
In Director, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the graphic in the
Cast window.
2
Select Launch External Editor from the context menu.
Note: If Fireworks does not start as your external image editor, select Edit > Preferences > Editors
in Director, and set Fireworks as the external editor for bitmap graphic file types. (If you are using a
Macintosh OS X operating system, select the Director menu, instead of the Edit menu, to access
Preferences.)
The file opens in Fireworks, and the document window indicates that you are editing a file
from Director.
3
Make changes to the image, and click Done when you finish.
Fireworks exports the new graphic to Director.
Optimizing cast members in Director
You can start Fireworks from Director to make quick optimization changes to selected
cast members.
To start Fireworks and change optimization settings for a Director cast member:
1
In Director, select the cast member in the Cast window, and click Optimize in Fireworks on
the Bitmap tab in the Property inspector.
2
In Fireworks, change the optimization settings as desired.
3
Click Update when you finish. Click Done if the MIX Editing dialog box appears.
The image is exported back to Director using the new settings.