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Using Design Notes in Fireworks and Dreamweaver

If you open a graphic in Macromedia Fireworks 4.0 and export it to another format, Fireworks automatically saves the name of the original source file in a Design Notes file. For example, if you open myhouse.png in Fireworks and export it to myhouse.gif, Fireworks automatically creates a Design Notes file called myhouse.gif.mno, which contains the name of the original file, as an absolute file: URL. For example, the Design Notes for myhouse.gif might contain this line:

fw_source="file:///Mydisk/sites/assets/orig/myhouse.png"

If the image contains hotspots or rollovers, the HTML source for those items is also added to the Design Notes file.

When you import the graphic into Dreamweaver, the Design Notes file is automatically copied into your site along with the graphic. When you select the image in Dreamweaver and choose to edit it using Fireworks (see Launching an external editor), Fireworks opens the original file for editing. For more information, see Dreamweaver and Fireworks overview.