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change the background colour of stage not the canvas?

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June 7, 2018
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I teach in a school and I am using Adobe Fireworks with the students. On some students computer because of the display resolution and accessibility (how they see the stage) they cannot discern a transparent background of the canvas to the stage. Is it possible to change the stage colour for the slightly visually impaired student?

So summary of my question how to change the background colour of stage so when the canvas is transparent it can be easily distinguishable.

Thank you.

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Paul-M

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About the best thing you could do (aside from adjusting the display) if somebody was struggling with the transparent background is draw a rectangle move it to back, lock it and toggle visibility as and when required

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rayek.elfin

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If I may ask, why are you teaching your students discontinued software? You are aware that Fireworks was discontinued more than five years ago (May 2013), and it is dead software. Your students wouldn't be able to purchase a copy, and it is only available as a legacy app through a full (expensive) CC account.

Depending on what you do Fireworks, Gravit Designer may be a good and free alternative. It feels very much like Fireworks, but has no image editing (for which many free alternatives exist on the web).

Gravit Designer

Anyway, back to your question. From the manual of Fireworks:

Change the canvas color

Do one of the following:

Select Modify > Canvas > Canvas Color, and select a color option. For a Custom color, click a color in the Swatches pop-up window.

From the Property inspector, choose Select > Deselect, click the Pointer tool to display the document properties, and click the Canvas color

box. Pick a color from the Swatches pop-up window or click the eyedropper on a color. To select a transparent canvas, click the Transparent

button in the Swatches pop-up window.

To change the default canvas

color, click the Custom swatch in the New Document dialog

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andreao7166925

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That's not what they were asking. I have the same question, and yes, even as a designer, I still use Fireworks because I used it when they first came out—loved Macromedia Flash & FW tool palettes . . . I just found them more user-friendly, and I don't like giving stuff up that I like! I love it even though I know it's dead. It's most helpful to people to not question them and try to 'school them,' just answer their question. And I used to be a teacher; teachers use whatever they have access to to teach kids.

I recall not being able to do so in FW but had forgotten so did a search and found this string . . . and msa96947redlands, I pulled up another old string from '06 with a response from someone in 2015: "To reiterate Newsgroup User's answer: you cannot change the GUI or workspace background colour in Fireworks." So, sorry!

rayek.elfin

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andreao7166925 It is one thing using old dead software yourself (which is one's own choice), yet quite another thing to teach your students that same software which no longer runs without workarounds on Macs, and is no longer easily accessible (if at all) by those students outside of school (aside from forcing their parents to sign up for CC), and no longer used anywhere in the industry.

I teach myself, and in my opinion teaching software that's been dead for over five years, and is no longer readily available to your students outside of school, while inexpensive and even free alternatives exist, is a somewhat odd, unnecessary and questionable practice.

rayek.elfin

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Stage? Are you sure it is Fireworks which we are talking about? It isn't Flash or Animate CC? Fireworks doesn't have a stage, but Flash/AnimateCC does.

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So fireworks has a canvas, I wish to change the the background on which the canvas sits on. One some desktop when a white or a transparent background is chosen it is very hard to distinguish where the canvas starts and ends. Obviously if a black canvas or colour canvas is chosen then there is a distinctive distinction between the the canvas and background. However in some projects they wish to have a white background.

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