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What's
New in This Version
The MX version of Fireworks
has a different look and feel as well as some new features.
| Panels
that collapse, dock or float |
- Panels can be collapsed
so that only the title bar shows.
- Panels can dock on the
edge of the screen or float so that they can be dragged to convenient
locations.
- Previous versions placed
the document window in one of two modes for editing bitmaps (Image
Edit Mode) and vectors (Object Edit Mode). In Fireworks MX the tool
selected determines whether you will edit a bitmap, vector or text
object in the document window.
- The new context-sensitive
Properties panel incorporates settings that had been on several panels
in previous versions. Options change depending on the type of work
being done. You will do most of your formatting on this one panel
rather than switching between panels.
- Tools panel buttons are
grouped into sections to make them easier to find and use - selection
tools, bitmap editing, vector
editing, colors, etc.
- The Text tool no longer
opens an editing window. Instead, you just select the text tool and
click on the canvas to enter text. Text attributes are changed in
the Properties panel.
- The spell-checker searches
all blocks of text.
- Create a navigation bar
using a prototype (symbol) for a button and cloning any number of
buttons from the symbol. You can edit the symbol to affect all buttons
and also change the URL and other features of individual buttons.
- Create
horizontal or vertical pop-up menus.
| New
tools for bitmap editing |
- Gradient tool can be used
to fill objects, text and pixel selections.
- New tools for blur, sharpen,
dodge, burn and smudge.
- Animation dialog box and animation object properties with options
such as scale, rotate, direction, opacity, number of frames.
- Rebecca
Atwood, ratwood@wellesley.edu
- Information
Services
- Date
Created: June 3, 2003
- Last
Modified: September 24, 2003
- Expires:
September 1, 2004
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