.gif in fireworks

I have tried saving a file as .gif in fireworks, but it did not give me a transpartent background. it does in photoshop. why doesnt it do the same here?
thanks.

You don't want to "Save," you want to "Export."
Go to File > Image Preview. From there, select your image format. Since you want a transparent .gif, you need to tell Fireworks which of the 256 colors in the palette you want transparent. This is where you can do that. You can select alpha or index transparency. (If you don't specify the transparency, then you won't get a transparent .gif.) Once you have the parameters for your image selected, export the image. Don't save.

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i've upgraded to Web Premium Suite CS3.
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ugisiger wrote:
> hi
> no any extras. simply 5 layers "distributed" on the
timeline.
> if i open a "animated" psd, so i get a file with the
layers and one frame, but
> loosing animation stuff like "when show witch layer an
for how long"
> -> there is no conversion to FW frames.
>
> Ueli
>
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Ok I have scoured the help files.
Im not finding what I need to know.
I want to create a Fireworks layout with 10 squares that have photos in them that fade back and forth between one image and another, slowly.
I would imagine I can pull this off with animated Gifs.
Thing is, I can not figure out how to pull this off in Fireworks.
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I tried this and the gif came in with 40 states and the animation looked ridiculously bad. Not smooth and way to slow.
Is there a decent video tut on how to make animations in Fireworks.
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I also want to have a rollover in the same layout.
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When I create a short flash with text inbeded and I publish
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Lame.... http://forums.adobe.com/community/fireworks/fireworks_general
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> You made an animated GIF in Fireworks, yes? yes
> It works? Animates as you wish? yes
> Then you insert it in DW and you see the image, yes?
no.no.no
> Static in DW (DW will NOT display the animation) but
when you preview the
> page
> in a browser it
> doesn't animate as expected? no, unfortunately not, or
else there would
> be no
> problem
>
> perhaps I am saving or exporting incorrectly. for the
animation previews
> clearly in fireworks, but then I dont get anything in
dreamweaver, neither
> static image on work page or animation in preview
> Please, I would appreciate a little clarity here for
this site has to be
> up
> tonight
> thanks for any help and explanations
>

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On Thu, 04 May 2006 14:50:54 +0400, FayeC
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Fireworks MX 2004 at work to create animated
banners and I have
> come across a problem that I hadn't seen before.
> When I create the animated gif in Fireworks the gif
displays perfectly
> in Netscape, Mozilla, etc but in IE it has a 1 px slice
left from the
> first frame on the other frames.
> I tried moving the slice, slicing again, etc to no
avail...
> I had to use ImageReady to create the animation again
using the
> exported gifs from each frame to make it display
correctly in IE.
> Has anybody come across this problem and has anybody
found a solution?
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always did
difference perfectly but who knows, maybe the source of the
problem is
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turns out the swift 3d tutorial has you put the animation in a single keyframe within layer one.
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States are what FW uses for a GIF animation. Assuming you don't need
to do anything else to the imagery, just choose Animated GIF from the
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