Special Edition Using Macromedia Fireworks MX

Foreword

Mark Haynes,

Fireworks Product Team Liaison,

Macromedia Customer Care

Human history is marked with events that were pivotal in the development of communication. The Egyptians brought us papyrus, and about a millennium later the Chinese invented T’sai Ko-Shi, the first form of paper as we know it. Al-Khwarizmi, the great 8^th century Arabic scholar, is credited with developing the beginnings of what we know as modern algebra, instrumental to the proliferation of the Arabic numeral system we use today. Gutenburg’s movable type in the fifteenth century (though various forms of movable type had existed in other lands) was another point at which we saw tremendous change produced by the growth of the print industry and the spread of printed materials. ...