[thelist] image ready 2/3

Brian King BKing at Impact-Technologies.com
Thu Jun 21 10:23:37 CDT 2001


I do what you are talking about all of the time.  I doesn't take hard work
once you understand how image ready works.  With the history and macro
features can save you a lot of time if you use them to your advantage.  You
shouldn't ever have to reperform laborious tasks more then once. Just use
the features available to you.  I think that Image Ready has Fireworks beat
in that area.  I use the macro building feature a lot for custom tasks that
I want to do.  I never have to do them again and I end up with a package
that has my needs built into it when I am done, can Fireworks do that?

Beau had it down.  It's real simple.

Here's what you do:

Duplicate the sliced file, and remove all of the layers, save it.

Open modified file (with hundreds of layers), open the empty sliced file
(with nothing but slices). Select the document with hundreds of layers.
Make a new action, and start recording this:

1. Go to Layer:Duplicate Layer. Make sure you duplicate the layer from the
file with hundreds of layers into the empty sliced file.

2. Press alt-] (it means "select forward layer" -- I'm not sure what the
equivalent is for the mac, probably command-] or option-]).

Now stop recording. Assign the action at hotkey, like F4 or something.
Start from the bottom, and press F4 a hundred times. All of the layers
should be duplicated exactly into the empty sliced file.



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Subject:	Re: [thelist] image ready 2/3

> In Fireworks, just copy that "Web Objects" layer from one document to the
> other... you can transfer slicing patterns from file to file. (Associated
> URLs and custom slice compression will be retained.) No "template" file is
> needed in that approach, just copy the slices.

ping pong.
Might be time to switch back to fireworks.

thanks John

<tip type="your browser is a development environment" author="sam-i-am">

IE 5.5 (pc)
This little bookmarklet will zoom in on the page. Useful I think.

javascript:void(s=document.body.style);void(z=s.getAttribute('zoom'));if(z){
if(z!='100%')s.setAttribute('zoom','100%');else
s.setAttribute('zoom','200%')}else s.setAttribute('zoom','200%');

unwrap it (it should be all on one line) and up to your links bar by
e.g. duplicating an existing favourite, and pasting this is as the Web
Document. I have a cheesy magnifying glass icon for mine. "Zoom" will
also do.

Hit the link to zoom, hit again to restore it.
</tip>

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