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374 Chapter 15: Using Fireworks with Other Applications
Working with Macromedia Director MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Working with Macromedia HomeSite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Working with Adobe Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
About working with Adobe GoLive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
About working with HTML editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
About extending Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Working with Macromedia Dreamweaver
Unique integration features make it easy to work on files interchangeably in Macromedia
Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Dreamweaver and Fireworks recognize and share many of the
same file edits, including changes to links, image maps, table slices, and more. Together, the
two applications provide a streamlined workflow for editing, optimizing, and placing web
graphics files in HTML pages.
If you want to modify Fireworks images and tables placed in a Dreamweaver document, you
can start Fireworks from the Property inspector in Dreamweaver to make edits and then
return to the updated document in Dreamweaver. If you want to make quick optimization
edits to images and animations, you can open the Fireworks Export Preview dialog box from
the Dreamweaver Property inspector and enter updated settings. In either case, updates are
made to the placed files in Dreamweaver, as well as to the source Fireworks files, if those
source files were opened.
To further streamline the web design workflow, you can create image placeholders in
Dreamweaver for future Fireworks images. You can later select those placeholders and start
Fireworks to create desired graphics in the dimensions specified by the Dreamweaver
placeholder images. Once in Fireworks, you can change the image dimensions if desired.
Placing Fireworks images in Dreamweaver files
There are several ways to place Fireworks graphics into a Dreamweaver document. You can
place a finished Fireworks graphic using the Files panel or the Insert menu in Dreamweaver,
or you can create a new Fireworks document from a Dreamweaver image placeholder.
You can insert any graphic file format supported by Fireworks and Dreamweaver directly into
a Dreamweaver document using the Dreamweaver Files panel or Insert menu. You must
export the images from Fireworks first. For more information on exporting images, see
Fireworks Help.