Fireworks CS4 Exporting to PDF
Keeping the client involved with the design process is very important. Jim Babbage discusses using Fireworks CS4 to export designs to interactive PDFs that can be shared with the client.
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Comment by hani | December 21, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
Thank you, very useful tutorial, much better and clear than the Adobe.
Comment by roberto casti | January 27, 2009 @ 7:22 am
Thank you both!
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Comment by Jim Babbage | January 27, 2009 @ 11:50 am
Thank you very much! not only i have learned about how to export file into PDF doc, i’ve also learned some other cool tricks!
Comment by Jeff L. | February 18, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Fantastic tutorial, Jim.
I have a question for you, and apologize in advance if it’s a bit noobish.
If you were building a site which would have a top navigation menu with links hidden in drop-down panels, how would you go about demoing that for a client?
I guess I’m really asking several questions here:
1) Could you build such a menu in Fireworks at all?
2) If not, would you have to do it in Dreamweaver?
3) If so, what kind of prototype would permit the client to see it? Can it be demoed in an acrobat file? HTML+images? CSS+images? What if the menu isn’t CSS-only, but uses some javascript?Sorry if these are dumb or inappropriate questions…thanks again for providing these resources.
Comment by Tom | February 23, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
@Tom: Thanks very much, Tom. Not sure if you’ve found your answers yet, but here are my suggestions:
1)You can’t do truly interactive drop down menus in an interactive PDF. You could create a separate page which has the expanded menu displayed. Not ideal, but this is really only for mock up purposes anyway.
2 & 3)While you can create pop up menus in Fireworks, they’re a little buggy, so I’d recommend doing this kind of thing using Dreamweaver. If I do build them in FW, I export as HTML and Images for the prototype. Note: I only do so for prototyping purposes, never for final production work.They are not dumb questions.
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Comment by Jim Babbage | August 31, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
That’d be great, but I don’t get a pdf option when I save as.
Comment by Gahh | October 2, 2009 @ 7:43 am
@Gahh: You get that option when you choose File > Export. No where in the video does it say to choose File > Save As to create the PDF.
HTH
Comment by Jim Babbage | October 19, 2009 @ 6:28 pm
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