Fireworks CS4 beta - Style Improvements

1. It will list all the styles which are used in the current document.
2. If there are any more documents in the current Fireworks CS4 beta session, all the documents will be listed in the drop down menu. The user can access the style library used in that document as well.
3. This will load the stl file in the current session of Fireworks. It will be added to the drop down menu in panel and will be visible for all documents in that Fireworks session only.
4. When the mouse is hovered on a style in the styles panel, the style name will be reflected in this region.
5. This will load the contents of the stl file in the "Current Document" drop down option in styles panel and will be available only for the current document.
6. Through this option the stl file will be loaded and copied it in the user settings location. The stl library file imported will be available across multiple documents and multiple sessions of Fireworks.
7. A user can create custom stl library files. This option will save the styles in ‘Current Document’ as a stl library file.

The following options are available in the Property Inspector panel of Fireworks.

8. This will delete the style which is mentioned in the drop down menu.
9. This will break the link of the style on the current object. Any edits to this style will not be propagated to other objects which have the same style applied to it.
10. This option can be used when a user wants to revert back to the original style after it has been edited.
11. After a style has been applied to an object and the style is modified. Pressing this button will propagate the changes across all the objects where this style is applied.
12. This button is used to create a new style. Existing attributes of the selected object will be the attributes of the new style being created.

Other Workflow operations:

1. Alt + Drag will redefine the style in the "Current Document" field in Styles Panel.
2. All, used and unused styles are saved in the png file.
3. Deleting the Live Styles from Properties Inspector will delete it only from the current Document option. To delete it from the Library, use the panel delete option.
4. Copy a style and paste it into another document will paste the object and add the style associated with it in the Styles panel.
5. Copy Paste attributes will also paste the style in the styles panel.
6. When a Style is created from a group/autoshape, only the effects will be defined in the created style. The fill and stroke options are unchecked by default and hence they will not be picked up in the style. When the fill and stroke options are checked they will be picked up in the style created.
7. When you apply a style to a group/autoshape, the path attributes are NOT applied to all the sub-elements & only the effect is applied to the entire group.
8. When a style is redefined from a group/autoshape, only the effects are redefined. All the path attributes are ignored.
9. When an object with style name "Temp" is copy pasted into a new document which also has the style name "Temp", the new object pasted gets the + sign added to it.
10. Importing a png file which contains styles will pop up a dialog if the style in the current file and the file which is being imported has a clash in style names.