Book III 5 in Java

Printer Code 128 Code Set B in Java Book III 5

you probably make rectangular slices, cutting right through text, slicing a single icing rose into four pieces, and so on You ignore the design on the surface of the cake because you re more interested in slicing the cake quickly and controlling the size of each piece You might make a few specially-cut pieces if somebody really wants the blue rose near the top or the exclamation points from the text that says, Happy Birthday!!! When you are cutting up a Web page, you will want certain pieces to remain intact (a corporate logo or a navigation button, for example), but other objects will fit the HTML grid structure better if they are sliced into pieces or included with other objects on a single piece If you have an object with round edges, you need to slice it into rectangles so it can be reconstructed on a Web page, like the bowling ball shown in Figure 5-8 The bowling ball will be recreated in HTML as three stacked rectangles The middle slice in Figure 5-8 is selected, so its name and image compression type appear at the top left of the slice

The Slice tool, which can be found in the Web section of the Tools panel, looks like a utility knife on a green square with red lines on each side When

you employ the Slice tool, the slices you create are added automatically to the Web Layer To make a slice in your PNG file, follow these steps:

1 Select the Slice tool from the Web section of the Tools panel 2 Click and drag diagonally on the canvas to make a rectangle

The Slice tool has a partner hidden behind it in the toolbar: the Polygon Slice tool, which you can get to by clicking and holding the Slice tool until the pop-up menu containing the Polygon Slice tool appears, or by clicking the Slice tool and pressing K on your keyboard You can probably guess that the Polygon Slice tool allows you to make non-rectangular slices But wait! Didn t we say that slices and images must be rectangular The short answer is that the Polygon Slice tool doesn t create a non-rectangular slice it creates a rectangular slice with a polygonal hotspot (a polygonal area that can be hyperlinked in combination with some HTML code) inside So what s the difference between a polygonal hotspot made by the Polygon Slice tool and one made by the Polygon Hotspot tool The Polygon Hotspot tool doesn t make a slice, it just makes an irregularly-shaped linkable area in a slice (A slice may contain many hotspots, each linked to a different page) The Polygon Slice tool, on the other hand, makes both hotspots and slices If you have a map of the United States, and you want each state to link to its own HTML page, use the Polygon Hotspot tool to make linked areas in the shape of each state (For more information on the Polygon Hotspot tool, see Book III, 6) If you just have a few irregularly shaped buttons, you can use the Polygon Slice tool to make a linkable image To make a polygonal slice, follow these steps:

of the Tools panel If the regular Slice tool is showing, click and hold the Slice tool button to reveal the pop-up menu so you can select the Polygon Slice tool

Fireworks automatically draws straight lines to connect each point to the last You do not need to click the first spot to close the shape

In the world of Fireworks, an object is any self-contained bitmap, vector shape, or text block that can appear on the canvas The object may include blank space, and you can make a single object out of many objects (as you do when you merge layers, which we discuss earlier in this chapter) In general, anything in your design that you want to be able to edit individually should be left as a single object