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The Fireworks Workspace

January 31st 2010 in Fireworks

Guide Lines
Turn the rulers on
Click and drag from the vertical ruler to create a vertical guide.
View/Guides/Snap to Guides.
To measure distance between the guides use the Select tool and hold the Shift key.

Workspace
To undock a panel drag from the gripper away.
To re-dock properties pane drag from the side bar to the bottom of page.
To hide the panels press F4

Capture a Screenshot
Select Commands/Take Screenshot
Select region
Open a new canvas then paste the captured image in.

Master Page
Create a page with your common content on it. ie banners, navigation and titles.  In properties set this as your Master Page.  When ever you create another page it will contain the master Page content. Its like a template.  Only one Master Page per project.

Sharing Layers across Pages
To share a layer, first select the layer then click options. Select Share Layers and pick the pages.

More coming……


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