After a bit of searching, I came across this thread. Like the OP, I would love
to be able to make those out-of-canvas items visible. It's a real pain to only
be able to view what's inside of the canvas. Why can't things be placed
"off-stage"?

If anybody has any sort of workaround, I would love to hear it! I like
Fireworks, but I'm having trouble with this limitation. I'm so used to being
able to throw something off-stage for a bit, but with FW it's really hard to
adjust.

-Luke

Hi Luke,

> If anybody has any sort of workaround, I would love to hear it! I like
> Fireworks, but I'm having trouble with this limitation. I'm so used to
> being
> able to throw something off-stage for a bit, but with FW it's really hard
> to
> adjust.

One way of dealing with that is make the canvas as large as you need for the
whole work area, put the stuff you're not using on the side or bottom, then
just draw slices around the stuff you want to export, and export just those
slices - that's what I do.

Aloha,

Jerry