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Working with Illustrator

Fireworks provides support for importing native Illustrator (AI) CS2 and later files, with options for retaining many aspects of the imported files, including layers, patterns, and linked images. As a result, you can bring Illustrator images into Fireworks for further editing and web optimization. You can also export Illustrator files from Fireworks.

When you import Illustrator files, Fireworks preserves the following features:

Bezier Points
The number and position of Bezier points will be preserved.

Colors
Colors will be preserved as closely as possible when importing AI content to Fireworks.

Text Attributes:

  • Font

  • Size

  • Color

  • Bold

  • Italic

  • Align (Left, Right, Center, Justify)

  • Orientation (Horizontal, Vertical Left to Right, Vertical Right to Left)

  • Letter Spacing

  • Character Position (Normal, SuperScript, SubScript)

  • Auto kerning

  • Kerning pairs

To quickly import specific text in an Illustrator file, copy it directly into Fireworks. Copied text retains all text attributes.

Gradient Fills
Gradients will be imported as native Fireworks gradients. All of the ramp points of the gradient will be preserved.

Images
Illustrator AI files can contain linked files and placed files of the following types: PDF, BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, JPEG2000, PICT, PCX, PCD, PSD, PXR, PNG, TGA and TIFF. Embedded Images are brought into Fireworks as raster images. Linked images are preserved as linked bitmaps in Fireworks.

Clip Masks
Fireworks supports the import of clipping masks with paths and compound paths.

Filled Strokes
Filled strokes are imported as a single drawing object.

Solid Fills
Filled paths are imported as a single drawing object.

Compound Paths
Compound paths are imported as a single drawing object.

Groups
The group is preserved and the individual grouped objects come in as drawing objects.

Graphs
Graphs are imported as groups, and they lose their special editability as graphs.

Primitives
Illustrator primitives are actually paths, so they are not imported as Fireworks primitives.

Patterns
Patterns are imported as individual tiles. These tiles are imported as a native pattern in Fireworks and the pattern is assigned to the drawing object.

Brush Strokes
Brush strokes are imported as multiple groups (one group per closed path).

Symbols
Symbols are imported as normal group objects.

Transparency
Fireworks imports object opacity correctly, preserving object transparency settings at the original Illustrator values.

Sub Layers
Fireworks imports all sublayers as native Fireworks sublayers.