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1.
How do I export a single slice?
2. Can I do this
without having toset up all the slices again and setting up all the links
again? Is there a way to just slide this graphic in place of the other
one so I can use the existing links and slices?
3. When you export
slices from FW 2, why does the resulting HTML file contain javascript?
4. Does anyone know
how you turn off slices?
5. Is there some
way to export the buttons transparent?
6. How
to create an irregular hotspot?
7. Is
there a way to edit the objects that are in a sliced image?
8. Can
the slice tool guides/table be exported or used in another image?
9. How
do you export individual slices or a number of slices?
Q. FW1 allowed
you to export the frames of a slice by using the "..." button in the Information
dialog. FW2 doesn't seem to do that when the same button is pressed in
the Info pane. The only time I get all frames exported from FW2 is when
I use the Export command. I must admit, I kind of liked being able to
export a single slice if something changed -- is there an equivalent in
FW2?
A. Draw a
slice over your image and then bring up the Object panel. It will identify
the selected object as a slice. If it says Hotspot, then you used the
wrong tool to draw your slice. When the Object panel says the currently
selected object is a slice, you will see an export settings pulldown and
just to the right of that pulldown menu is the esteemed ellipsis (...)
button. Check it out!
enthusiastically,
mark haynes
macromedia tech support
Q.
Can I do this without having to go through and setting up all the slices
again and setting up all the links again? Is there a way to just slide
this graphic in place of the other one so I can use the existing links
and slices? The sizing is the same for the graphic.(My apologies, I lost
part of this question, but I think it's still understandable)
A. You can
do two things. (I am assuming FW2 here)
First, you can create a new layer in your
document. Click on the layer to make it the active layer, and import your
new graphic. Then you can use the layer visibilty to turn off your first
graphic, then export again to a different location. Only visible layers
are exported. (note that the web layer is special - it is never exported,
and slices don't have to be visible to export slices)
Second, you can create a new FW png document
with your second graphic. Open the first graphic, select the slices, and
copy and paste into the new docuement. When you copy and paste the slices,
all behaviors and links should paste into the new document with the slices.
John Alquist
Q.
When you export slices from FW 2, why does the resulting HTML file
contain javascript? Can I just delete this javascript? I never used javascript
in the past when I've sliced images.
A. FW 2.0
adds javascript because it is possible to have rollovers and status messages
and image preloads in the sliced output. Note that the javascript it adds
is minimal compared to FW 1.0, which included a number of javascript functions
as well.
If you have no behaviors, you can delete
the javascript section.
John Ahlquist
A(2).
I made a custom HTML template, called "basic", that do just that, no Javascript,
just a plain old table. You can download it at my Dreamweaver website
Hope it will help
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Q.
Does anyone know how you turn off slices?
A. Open
the Layers panel and click on the little "eyeball" icon at the far right
of the Web Layer. The slices are displayed on the Web layer. The red slice
lines can also be hidden by selecting View>Slice Guides.
enthusiastically,
mark haynes
macromedia tech support
Q.
I created rollover buttons with a transparent background. On exporting
I could not keep the transparency, the buttons seemed to retain a gray
shadow. Is there some way to export the buttons transparent?
A.
In the export preview dialog, you'll find a color swatch that is labelled
"Matte:" Put the color that your web page's background will contain in
this swatch. You can get colors from anywhere on screen by using the eydropper
tool in the pulldown by the swatch (see: http://www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/ts/documents/win_color_sampling.htm
for information on how to do this) to sample your background color from
your browser window. Once you set the matte color, pulldown the No Transparency
menu and select Index Color. Fireworks will create clean aliasing to the
transparent color when you export.
enthusiastically,
mark haynes
macromedia tech support
Q.
Tutorial 4 of Fireworks 2.0 says to "select the ...object and choose
Insert > > Hotspot. This creates a hotspot that is the same size and shape
as the selected object." So I select the object and choose Insert > Hotspot
but the hotspot is rectangular, nothing close to the shape of the selected
object. ???
A.
There are two reasons I can think of why this might happen. If your object
is grouped, and you select it with the regular Selection tool (the black
arrow), you will get a rectangular Hotspot. Switch to the Subselection
tool (white arrow) and try again. The other reason could be that you are
actually choosing Slice. (I know about this because in my head I translated
Slice into Hotspot and made the mistake several times) But unless you're
as ditsy as me, it's probably the other reason.
Sandee Cohen
Q. Is there a way to
edit the objects that are in a sliced image?
A. The slices and hotspots are on
the Web layer. If you hide the Web layer (click the eye icon next to Web
Layer in the Layers panel) you can treat the document like it doesn't
have slices. Once I've drawn my slices, I always hide them just to get
them out of the way.
-- Regards, Simon White Macromedia Evangelist
Q. I have several images
where the layout is identical, but there are minor changes so that the
"buttons" on each image can be used for different rollover states. I would
like to use the slice tool to slice the first image, then be able to slice
the other images at exactly the same place. Can the slice tool guides/table
be exported or used in another image? Can I somehow layer the individual
images into one Fireworks file then use the same slice guides/table on
each layer?
A. From what I've found, slice areas
can be copy and pasted just like any other objects. If you have the same
layout and canvas size I shouldn't think there would be any problem duplicating
the slice layout...
I laid out one image, made a new blank image, pasted in the objects (also
found that I could shift-select the objects and get them all at one time)
and now I have a slice object template for all of my similar images.
Jules
Q. How do you export
individual slices or a number of slices?
A. You do it in the Object box. With
Web Layers visible, choose the slice you want to export. Choose the "..."
button and that will let you export just the one slice.
Nikki Fay, Art and Design : http://www.faystudios.com/