Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Fireworks CS4 Beta - 9 Slice scaling Tool

As I mentioned in the earlier posts during CS3 time, this was one of the requests which was high on my list. In Fireworks CS4, my wish has been granted.

This request implementation will help out innumerable designer when doing any sort of design work involving scaling. The tool will be great to all the other designers who have got addicted to the intelligent 9 Slice scaling added in CS3 version of Fireworks.

My request was to remove the limitation of converting an object to symbol to apply 9 slice scaling settings to it.

Now, designers need not create a symbol out of the existing object to apply 9 slice guides to it. The tool is accessible via scaling tools options as shown below.

The 9 slice scaling tool cannot be applied to a symbol.

The 9 slice guides are available on a per object per session basis. The guides do not remember the settings. Hence when the object looses selection the guide settings are also lost. The next time 9 slice scaling is done, the guides will appear at the default location.

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