When you drag in a
second Panel component from the Common Library, you??™ll see a dialog box asking if you want to
replace the item that is already in the document. Since we are not modifying the components in
Fireworks, we don??™t need to worry about this. You copy a component in Fireworks in the same way
you do in other software applications. With the component selected, you can use the top menu bar
and select Edit ?¤ Copy followed by Edit ?¤ Paste. You can also use the shortcut keys Ctrl+C/Cmd+C
and Ctrl+V/Cmd+V.
Figure 4-6. Choose Common Library from Figure 4-7. Common Library
the Window menu.
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7. Place the copies roughly in the same locations as shown in Figure 4-8, although the exact position
isn??™t critical for now. We??™ll align the panels later with the other pieces of our layout.
Figure 4-8. Panel components in place
Our design will have a large text area designed to hold the bulk of our content. Let??™s now add a
TextArea component that will hold the main text. When you first place a TextArea component, it will be
rather small.
8. Use the Scale tool to make the component about the size you want it in the final layout, as
shown in Figure 4-9.
The text area should be about the same height and twice the width of the Panel components you
placed earlier.
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Figure 4-9. TextArea component in place
Our layout is now beginning to overcrowd our background image. We can put a slight transparency on
our TextArea to let the background show through.
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