Web designers often get bogged down in repetitive tasks, such as optimizing images or converting images to fit within certain constraints. Part of the power of Fireworks is its ability to automate and simplify many tedious drawing, editing, and file conversion tasks.
To speed up your editing process, use Find and Replace to search for and replace elements within a file, or elements from multiple files. Find and replace elements such as URLs, fonts, color, and text.
Use Batch Process to convert groups of image files into other formats, or to change their color palettes. Batch Process can apply custom optimization settings to groups of files. You can also resize a group of files, making Batch Process an ideal tool for creating thumbnails.
Use the History panel to create commands that are shortcuts for commonly used features, or to create a script that can perform a complex series of steps. Fireworks can understand and execute JavaScript, so advanced users can automate very complex tasks by writing JavaScript commands and then executing them within Fireworks. You can control nearly every Fireworks command or setting through JavaScript using special JavaScript commands that Fireworks can interpret.