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Styles


 

You can save and reapply a set of predefined fill, stroke, filter, and text attributes by creating a style. When you apply a style to an object, that object takes on the characteristics of the styles.

Note: Bitmap objects receive only the filter attributes of a style.

For a video tutorial on using styles and symbols in Fireworks, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4033_fw.

A symbol applied with a style

Fireworks has many predefined styles. You can add, change, and remove styles. The Fireworks DVD and the Adobe website have many more predefined styles that you can import into Fireworks. You can also export styles and share them with other Fireworks users, or import styles from other Fireworks documents.

    Apply a style

    Use the Styles panel (in the Assets panel group) to create, store, and apply the full range of styles to objects, text, groups, and autoshapes.

    For quick access to the subset of styles found in a document, use the current styles menu in the Property inspector.

    1. Select the objects on the canvas you want to apply a style to.

    2. Select Window > Styles to display the Styles panel.

    3. Choose either Current Document to access currently used styles or select a preset style from the pop-up menu to access preset Fireworks styles.
      Note: If you have no styles in a document, the styles panel remains blank until you select any of the preset styles.

    4. Click a style in the panel.

    Create and delete styles

    You can create a style based on the attributes of a selected object, group, text, or autoshape. The following attributes can be saved in a style:

    • Fill type and color, including patterns, textures, and vector gradient attributes such as angle, position, and opacity

    • Stroke type and color

    • Filters

    • Text attributes such as font, point size, style (bold, italic, or underline), alignment, anti-aliasing, auto-kerning, horizontal scale, tracking, and leading

    If you delete a custom style, you cannot recover it; however, any object currently using the style retains its attributes.

    Create a style

    1. Create or select a vector object, text, group, or autoshape with the stroke, fill, filter, or text attributes you want.

    2. Click the New Style button  at the bottom of the Styles panel or the Property inspector.

    3. Select the attributes you want to be part of the style.

      Note: To save other text attributes, use the Text Other option.

    4. Name the style and click OK.

    Rename a style

    1. Select a style in the Styles panel.

    2. Select Rename Style from the Styles panel options menu.

    3. Type a new name for the style and click OK.

    Base a new style on an existing style

    1. Apply the existing style to a selected object.

    2. Edit the attributes of the object.

    3. Save the attributes by creating a style.

    Delete a style

    1. Select a style in the Styles panel.

      Shift-click to select multiple styles; Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select multiple noncontiguous styles.

    2. Click the Delete Style button .

    To get your object back to the previous state, do one of the following:

    • Undo the style that you applied.

    • Edit the attributes manually and set them to the way they were before you applied the style.

    You can, if required, create a default style that sets an object's properties to the Fireworks defaults. Create an object, select it, and save it as a new style ensuring that you do not select any of the options in the New Style properties dialog. This "default" or "blank" style resets any of the attributes from another style, but does not revert the object to a previous appearance.

    Edit or redefine styles

    Edit styles to enable or disable specific properties such as fill or stroke. Redefine styles to modify any filters they include.

    When you edit or redefine a style, all objects you’ve applied it to update automatically. You can, however, break the link between selected objects and styles. (See Break the link to a style.)

    Edit a style

    1. Choose Select > Deselect to deselect any objects on the canvas.

    2. Double-click a style in the Styles panel.

    3. In the Edit Style dialog box, select or deselect attributes.

    4. Click OK to apply the changes to the style.

    Redefine a style

    1. On the canvas, select an object that uses the style.

    2. In the Property inspector, modify the applied filters, and then click the Redefine Style button.

    Note: When you redefine a style from a group, only the effects are redefined. All the path attributes are ignored.
    To quickly replace one style with another within the Current Document styles, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) one to another in the Styles panel.

    Saving and importing styles

    To save time and maintain consistency, you can share styles by exporting them for use by others.

    Save the style library

    You can save the styles you have created or edited as a style library. The names of styles are arranged in the alphabetical order. Styles can also be applied to groups, autoshapes, and symbols.

    1. Select Save Style Library from the Styles panel options menu.

    2. Enter a name and location for the style library.

    3. Click Save.

    Import styles

    1. Select Import Style Library from the Styles panel options menu.

    2. Select a style library (*.stl) to import. The style library is available across multiple documents and multiple sessions of Fireworks.

    Load styles to the current document

    1. Select Load Style from the Styles panel options menu.

    2. Select a style library (*.stl) to load to the current document. The styles loaded are available to the current document.

    Change style icon size

     To change the size of the style preview icons, select Large Icons from the Styles panel options menu to switch between large and small preview sizes.

    Copy attributes from one object to another without applying a style

    1. Select the object whose attributes you want to copy.

    2. Select Edit > Copy.

    3. Deselect the original object, and then select the objects to which you want to apply the new attributes.

    4. Select Edit > Paste Attributes.

    Break the link to a style

    You can break the link between an object and the style applied to it. The object retains the same attributes, but no longer changes if the style is changed.

    1. Select the object that has the style applied to it.

    2. In the lower-right area of the Property inspector, click the Break Link To Style button.

      If the Property inspector is minimized, choose Break Link To Style from the Styles panel menu.

    Remove style overrides from objects

    1. Select the objects which you had changed after applying a style.

    2. Select Clear Overrides from the Styles panel Options menu.

    Select unused styles in the current document

     From the Styles panel options menu, choose Select Unused Styles.

    Duplicate a style

    1. Select a style in the Styles panel.

    2. Select Duplicate Style from the Styles panel options menu.

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