Re: FLASH: OT: Need help with Fireworks/Flash

[Chris Seymour]

Hi Charles,

In Fireworks, select the ellipse or oval tool.  Hold the SHIFT key as you drag 

the mouse to create a perfect circle.


Hope this helps.



> Friends,

> 

> I just started playing with Fireworks 3 over the weekend, because I want to bend

> text around a circular path so that I can animate it in a Flash movie. 

> Fireworks doesn't seem to have a circle tool the way Flash does, and when I use

> the rectangle tool (with corners at 100%), Fireworks doesn't seem to recognize

> the "rectangle" as a path that the text can attach to. It's very tedious trying

> to draw a circle with the pencil or pen tools freehand (maybe I should try

> Freehand???!).

> 

> TIA,

> Charles

> 


Christopher Seymour


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