Comments on: Fireworks CS4 Exporting to PDF

By: Maurice Kindermann

Maurice Kindermann — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:31:06 +0000

Wow, thank you so much. I wasn’t sure if exporting to PDF was very possible with adobe, I watch this video and realise how much I still have to learn, I didn’t know about pages. I also save multiple versions of the same file. You have saved my hours of future work. Thank you.

By: David Lee

David Lee — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:57:32 +0000

Have you noticed that you lose clickable hotspot when exporting in PDF if you design the hotspot in a symbol?

By: sophie

sophie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:26:07 +0000

hi Jim,

thanks for posting the tutorial. I’ve been trying to do an interactive pdf in fireworks as well. However, in my export pdf, it seems that my hotspot (clickable already) will always has a black outline. Looking though google and adobe help. I don’t know how to turn it off.

If i convert to html files. that outline will not show up.

I was wondering if you know how to solve this problem

By: Jim Babbage

Jim Babbage — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:28:41 +0000

@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

By: Gahh

Gahh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:43:00 +0000

That’d be great, but I don’t get a pdf option when I save as.

By: Jim Babbage

Jim Babbage — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:01:06 +0000

@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.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:54:58 +0000

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.

By: Jeff L.

Jeff L. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:31:10 +0000

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!

By: Jim Babbage

Jim Babbage — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:50:27 +0000

Thank you both!

By: roberto casti

roberto casti — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:22:43 +0000

Thank you, very useful tutorial, much better and clear than the Adobe.