Fireworks 8 (mac) creates slice files for all image layers

Question

Hi,
When creating a document with one or more slices with a
rollover behaviour, fireworks exports the
same number of images for the rest of the slices on the
page, even those without a rollover behaviour. For example, if
there is a slice with 4 states (therefore 4 image layers), all the
slices on the page will export 4 images, even if you only require
1. This is very frustrating especially if the page has many slices.
Does anybody else apart from Angel Massa, who I have seen
make a post last year on this subject, have this problem or know
the solution?
This didn’t happen on any of the previous releases of
Fireworks.
Thx, Mark.

Answer 1

Ideally posting a link to the problem file would be helpful
so we can
debug with it.
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Tweener wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> Are you using "frames" or "layers" when you create your
rollovers? I
> just want to make sure we're talking apples and apples
:-)Frames is a
> better choice as it's designed to work with animations
and rollovers
> create a button symbol, which encapsulates up to four
rollover states
> into a single symbol
>
> When you're exporting, make sure that "Include areas
without slices" is
> not checked.
>
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>
> Sorry, when I talk about "4 image layers" it was to
illustrate the number of
> button states - they are however exported as frames and
the option "Include
> areas without slices" is indeed unchecked.
>
> I have just done a quick experiment by exporting a file
in fireworks 8 created
> with an older version (I can't remenber which, but the
file dates to jan 2004)
> and the result is the same, the second frame created for
the over state of a
> "close" button is exported for all the other slices on
the page despite the
> othes using only the first frame. Pre-8 versions of FW
didn't do this.
>
> Regards, Mark
>