Fireworks 8 crashing on "Reconstitute table..."

Question

I am currently trying to recreate my .png file for a website
someone sliced up and didnt save the .png. Any time I try to
reconstitute it, the program (fireworks 8) crashes.
I am currently running OS X 10.5.2 on a Dual G5 PPC 2.25GB
Ram
Any ideas?

Answer 1

You're trying to import an HTML file into Fireworks? I don't
think it's really meant to do that. I played with your HTML and
images a bit and even simplified to bare tables without
interactivity, it doesn't work. I think that functionality of the
program is for communicating with Dreamweaver. Fireworks is a
graphics program, not an HTML editor, after all.
I'm afraid you're going to have to start from scratch. But
really, this is not so hard as it sounds. First make a screen
capture of the file you're trying to import. That will give you
something to line your images up to.
- Crop the screen cap so you have
only the menu.
- Drag down horizontal guidelines. The easy way to know where
to put them is to use the heights of your images. I've attached a
simplified version of your table, you can read them from there.
- Drag in your images, one at a time. Start with the images
that do not have the underscore at the end. Line each image up
where it needs to go. (The images with the underscores are your
mouseOver states. By the way, you're missing the mouseOver states
for JazzED News and Professional Development and you don't have the
normal state image for Students & Teachers.)
- Align each image with its position on the screen capture
and guidelines.
- For each image, name the layer and draw its slices using
the horizontal guidelines and the vertical image edges. Name the
slice to match the image name as well.
At this point, you can either save the image and repeat the
process with the mouseOver states in a separate image or you can
work out button symbols for each button.
Good luck!