Linked Images A Fireworks plug-in that will help you maintain the link between the source file and the bitmap element.
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When you import an image into a Fireworks document, Fireworks doesn't maintain any link between the source file and the bitmap element in the document. If the source file changes, you'll need to find it, re-import it and then delete the previous image in the document. Linked Images is an Adobe Fireworks extension designed to make this process a little easier.Other Adobe products in the Creative Suite support the "smart objects" feature, which lets you import objects from one app into another. When the source object changes, the imported one updates as well. Images imported via the Linked Images > Insert command aren't quite that smart, but they will remember where their source file was. You can then select the imported bitmap and run the Refresh command to re-import the latest version of the source file.Why not use an external symbol file instead? External symbols work great if the contents of the symbols are created in Fireworks. You can just open the symbol file, edit it, save it, then go to another file where you've used the symbol and update it. But what if the source is, say, a JPEG created by someone else using Photoshop? You'd have to open the external symbol file, edit the symbol, delete its contents, find the Photoshop JPEG, re-import it into the symbol, save the symbol file, and then go to the file that uses the external symbol and refresh it.With a linked image, on the other hand, you'd just have to select the image and run the Refresh command to import the latest version of the source file.

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