Using Fireworks with Other Applications
Whether you're creating web content or multimedia content, Adobe FireWorks is an essential component of any designer's toolbox. Fireworks works well with other applications, offering a variety of integration features that streamline the design process.
You can export Fireworks graphics to many applications, including other Adobe products. When used with other Adobe applications, Fireworks offers powerful integration features:
- Fireworks can be opened to edit selected graphics from inside many Adobe applications, such as Dreamweaver, Flash, HomeSite, FreeHand, and Director.
- Fireworks behaviors are preserved when they are exported to Dreamweaver and Director, allowing you to export interactive elements such as buttons and rollovers.
- Dreamweaver and Fireworks share a tight integration known as Roundtrip HTML. Roundtrip HTML allows you to make changes in one application and have those changes seamlessly reflected in the other.
- Dreamweaver and Fireworks share a file-management feature that allows users to check files into and out of a Dreamweaver website.
- Flash and Fireworks also share a tight integration. You can import Fireworks PNG source files directly into Flash without having to export to any other graphics format. Flash offers a variety of options that allow you to control how Fireworks objects and layers are imported.
Fireworks also simplifies the task of working with non-Adobe applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe GoLive. For example, you can easily import and export Photoshop graphics as fully editable files, or create and edit HTML using Fireworks and GoLive.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Working with Adobe Dreamweaver
Working with Adobe FreeHand MX
Working with Adobe Director MX
About working with Adobe GoLive
About working with HTML editors
