Difference Between Fireworks PNG vs Flattened PNG?

Hello,
I want to save my image as a PNG, however, Fireworks gives me the option to save as a "Fireworks PNG" or as a "Flattened PNG". What is the difference?
Thanks in advance!

PNG file is basically a raster format but Fireworks png document still holds the vector information about objects. Another basic difference is the presence of information related to Layers, Pages and states present in Fireworks PNG files.
..Sarthak

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Reaganjudd wrote:
> I have a Fireworks png file that i am trying to save out
as a psd. I can do
> so, but when I open in Photoshop, the layer groups I
created in my Fireworks
> png file are not preserved. The layers stay put, but
photoshop ignores the
> layer folder (or groups) and puts them all in one big
bucket. Is there a way
> to preserve the layer groups during my saving to psd
process?
>
> Also, I have text in my png file that uses -4
letterspacing. When I save as
> PSD, and open in Photoshop, the letterspacing changes to
-40. Anyway to get
> around this? I need to text to remain editable is
photoshop also.
>
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converting
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OBJECTS,
while Photoshop is really just layer-based. With the current
version of
FW there is no way that I know of to preserve this hierarchy
when you go
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manually once the
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> I have a fireworks *.png image which I would like to
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> MX. The fireworks artwork was provided by the designer
to use in a
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> I'm taking over another person's work and they built the
designs in
> Fireworks.
> I have an HR page that has photos that get updated all
the time (lots of
> turnover I guess) and I'm not really a Fireworks guys
(use Photoshop) and
> I've
> kinda figured out that there is a ".mno" (I think that's
what it is) file
> that
> stores the metadata to show where the .gif or .jpg was
made from the
> Fireworks
> .png file.
>
> I guess my question is, in matters of workflow, how do I
efficiently set
> up a
> .PNG file (from scratch) that saves its slices in either
.jpg or .gif,
> with the
> "here is the path to the original .png" flag so when I
come back to
> editing the
> .html in DW, I can see a flag that says "find the
original .png on Hard
> Drive
> 2"?
>
> I just did a search on OSX Spotlight for the image file
and it came up
> with
> the same named file as .mno or something like that. When
I opened that as
> a
> text doc, it gave a path, which fortunately helped me
find the original
> .png
> this time, so I didn't need to rebuild the image from
scratch. I did this
> through the "back door" of using OSX's search function.
>
> There are times I'm so busy, I need to find stuff fast.
How do I find
> original
> .pngs from .jpg/.gif images made in Fireworks, easily?
>
> How do I set up a good workflow from FW to DW?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> nick
>

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