Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Fireworks CS4 Beta - PDF Export

Adobe owns the PDF file format and has become the standard for document sharing across web.

With the introduction of Pages feature in Fireworks CS3, the ability of exporting the Fireworks png file as a pdf file became a next feature for this release. Also this seemed to be quite beneficial to any product where a designer might not be actual presenter to client. Or if the client interaction is only through mails.

This functionality of exporting all the pages of fireworks png file as different pages of a pdf document is a great help to people just mentioned above. The export to PDF functionality can be accessed via File ->Export and using the option as shown below.

Along with the format availability, there are multiple customizations which are also possible so that how the output pdf file will appear and behave. The following dialog can be accessed via the Options button which becomes visible after selecting the “Adobe PDF (*.pdf)” format.

After the pdf file has been generated, it can be viewed automatically in a pdf reader if the user checks the option of “View PDF after Export”.

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