AI CS3 - Save for Web & Devises image name problem

Hi -
For some reason when I doubleclick to name an image slice, hit Done to go back to the file, then go back to Save for Web & Devices, AI doesn't remember the names. I have to retype them (defaults back to User1 or whatever number). Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks,
Sue

I just found this article document:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc4cd31/2
It looks like they now have to be saved via drop down menus in order for Illustrator to remember the slice names for export again:
"Object - Slice - Slice Options, and then in Save for Web, set the Output Settings for Saving Files"
In my opinion this is incredibly poor UI design. In prior versions of Illustrator, I would save the names in the Save for Web dialog box by simply double clicking the slice frame, and it would remember the names of my slices for export again.
Clicking through drop down menus just to name a slice is inefficient compared to just double clicking a slice frame to name the slice.
If this is a bug, is there a solution to this? (Or are we really stuck with this poor system?)

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I just upgraded to Illustrator 13.0.02 and the problem is the same: Slice names and output settings are not remembered/saved like all previous AI versions.
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3bc41aeb.
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c057eab
Concerning slice name: It looks like they now have to be saved via drop down menus in order for Illustrator to remember the slice names for export again: "Object - Slice - Slice Options, and then in Save for Web, set the Output Settings for Saving Files"
In my opinion this is incredibly poor UI design. In prior versions of Illustrator, I would save the names in the Save for Web dialog box by simply double clicking the slice frame, and it would remember the names of my slices for export again.
Clicking through drop down menus just to name a slice is inefficient compared to just double clicking a slice frame to name the slice.

This is a bit of an old thread, but I too have recently discovered this problem in working with AI CS3.
I contacted Adobe support with the question. I asked them why it was not possible to select and optimize individual slices in the Save for Web and Devices dialog in CS3, and then maintain those settings after saving the slices or clicking "Done"... even though that very feature was available and working in CS2.
Adobe's answer was, quite simply, that they have ceased any development on CS3, including bug fixes, and that anyone who wants the problem fixes would have to buy CS4 in order to "fix" the problem.
In short, they are quite aware of the problem, but would rather have us pay for a new product in order to have it fixed, than to pay a programmer to spend a few hours or a few days in tracking down the problem and getting it sorted out. This is their short-term solution to a long-term problem.
There is a workaround to the slice naming, as you have found - name the slices from the Object - Slice - Slice Options menu. It's a royal PITA, I know, but it does maintain the slice name settings.
However, there is no real workaround to save the optimization and output settings (such as color tables and JPEG/GIF/PNG settings) for each slice. It's a completely broken feature, or in Adobe's own words, "a problem". A big fat bug. Let us not mince words here - it is technical and corporate incompetency. Technical incompetency can be excused - publishing a new build will fix the problem. But corporate incompetency, which tells the programmers that they don't need to fix the problem for "marketing" reasons, is totally inexcusable.
It doesn't cost Adobe anything to just shelve a problem... at least, not now. But I refuse to buy Illustrator CS4 as a result, because I don't want to give in to their ineptitude and lack of attention to the customer in this case. Which costs them more now, to pay the programmer to fix the error and then publish a new build on their web server... or to tell the customer that the problem won't be fixed and to buy the newest version? You do the math. Read 'em and weep.
Makes you want to migrate to Fireworks for web comp design, doesn't it. At least Illustrator has an excuse - it's an all-purpose vector graphics application, not specifically a web comp design app. If this were Fireworks, on the other hand, I think that there would be oodles of furious programmers screaming colorful obscenities at Adobe's front door.
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Hi, I've been using Photoshop for 15 years and used the Save for Web at CS2 without problem. In CS3, it is downsampling the res from 300 ppi to 72 correctly but at the same time increasing the width and height, as though I'd gone into Image Size to do the resize and had the Resample Image field unchecked. This worked fine in CS2, so what gives? I can't find any setting that needs to be changed in the Save for Web interface.

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This isn't a recent CS5 issue but a CS5 issue from the day it was released...I just got aggreviated enough today with it to come here and see if I could find an answer. It's definitely a SaveForWeb issue and not SaveAs.
Here's a similar post from back in March 2011...http://forums.adobe.com/message/3509172#3509172
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I just found this article document:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc4cd31/2
It looks like they now have to be saved via drop down menus in order for Illustrator to remember the slice names for export again:
"Object - Slice - Slice Options, and then in Save for Web, set the Output Settings for Saving Files"
In my opinion this is incredibly poor UI design. In prior versions of Illustrator, I would save the names in the Save for Web dialog box by simply double clicking the slice frame, and it would remember the names of my slices for export again.
Clicking through drop down menus just to name a slice is inefficient compared to just double clicking a slice frame to name the slice.
If this is a bug, is there a solution to this? (Or are we really stuck with this poor system?)

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