Contribute CS3 & Dreamweaver CS3

I do volunteer work for a pet rescue website. I started out
editing their pages with Dreamweaver CS3. When the work load got
out of control, one of the rescue members decided to help out by
using Contribute CS3. After a few months, I noticed there was a lot
of lag loading this one page we were both updating on a daily
basis.
In Dreamweaver, in design mode, the page appeared to be fine
but when looking at the source code, there were thousands of empty
lines that had been generating for who knows what reason. The
amount of lines was over 50K. I manually went in there and deleted
all the empty lines and ended up with about 600 lines total of
code. Everything was back to normal and my helper continued using
Contribute CS3 and I used DW, until a few days later when I noticed
the blank lines were back. Not as many as there were before but
they were certainly adding up and were definitely adding to the
loading time.
I did what I could to clean up the code and although there
are some empty lines left at the top of the file, the rest of the
file is ok now. I asked the Contribute helper to not make anymore
updates for the time being. I haven't seen any more blank lines
added since she stopped. So my best guess is that Contribute CS3 is
causing all the problems.
Is there something in Contribute CS3 publishing preferences
that may be causing this problem? I couldn't find anything in the
manuals except something about Line Breaks but that didn't have
anything to do with the code. Could it also be a server problem?
Not sure where I would begin looking. Any help would be
appreciated.
Here is a link to the file I am referring to:
http://www.norcalgsprescue.com/adopt.shtml
Thanks!

I've had similar issues, but not to the extent you seem to be
getting it. I know if you are using templates or server-side code,
the lines that do not propagage to your web client are removed, but
the source code lines are not collapsed...
Anyway, when I had a similar problem, it would putting an
extra line for each line in the html code... If you are on a
Linux/Unix Web server... go to Administer Website...Edit Role
Settings...Select the 'Editing' option on the left side of the
panel... at the very bottom, make sure 'Line Break Type' is set to
'Unix (LF)'
Hope that helps

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I have Adobe CS3 Web Premium edition, but a colleague located
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a dreamweaver template for use in Contribute CS3. Are there any
known compatibility issues with doing this, or any DreamWeaver CS3
features that we would maybe miss out on?
Thanks in advance!

I don't think this would be a problem, since you can
administer the site from within Contribute. The template souirce
code hasn't changed, so Contribute will find the templates and the
editable regions.
You could always decide to turn of the compatiblity in
dreamweaver if there are problems with the cheking in and out
system.

Dreamweaver CS4 and Contribute CS3

Hi,
I want to upgrade do Dreamweaver CS4 and some of my authors
use Contribute CS3. Will both be compatible or will they have to
upgrade do Contribute CS4?
Thanks
robert

1. start Contribute
2. main menu >Edit>Administer Websites>Choose
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4. click the button 'Remove Administration'

Contribute CS3 compatibility with Dreamweaver MX 2004

I haven't upgraded my Dreamweaver MX 2004 to 8 or CS3 - I
mostly handcode XHTML / CSS ... I have a client who is ideal for
Contribute for the content management needs, but I want to make
sure that I won't be forced into a manditory upgrade situation for
myself to both Dreamweaver CS3 and Contribute CS3 in order to
support them (and I've used Contribute 2 with older clients for a
while).

Have you found an answer for this. I am in a similar
situation, in CS3 Mac. If I use www.mysite.com/www, which is the
folder for ftp purposes, I get:
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URL. Please check the site root URL.
If I just go to the main url, www.mysite.com, I get:
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cannot perform Contribute administration tasks without a connection
to a remote server. Please fix the remote connection before
continuing.
I've tried it on another site I administer and it worked
fine, so I'm wondering if it's something to do with the
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either...
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Dreamweaver MX2004 + Contribute CS3

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We use a Lotus Notes CMS at the moment (out of my hands at
the moment) and want to use Dreamweaver + Contribute to create html
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Will there be a trial version of Contribute available?

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L3

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Contribute CS3 embeds the contents of SSI Includes into page after Edit and Publish

I have tried every possible way to figure this out but it
seems as though no one has this problem or a solution...
My Dreamweaver CS3 Template based files that have SSI
Includes placed in a "non-editable region" of a template and/or
nested templates are continually embedded, merged, or hard-coded (I
used those keywords for anyone else who might be searching for help
on this frustrating issue) into the page after it has been edited
and published with Contribute CS3 for Windows.
After many, many, hours and days rebuilding templates
(thinking that it was my code), experimenting with .htaccess
include_path variables, and cursing this application, I have come
to one conclusion - if I put my includes within "editable regions"
in the templates or the template based pages, edit and publish the
page with Contribute - then the page is saved normally, with the
includes intact and not embedded within the page. This is of course
not necessarily desirable!
I have tried using various types of include directives like:
<?php include('footer.inc'); ?>
<?php require('footer.inc'); ?>
<?php virtual(footer.php'); ?>


All Includes are merged into the template-based page after
the page has been edited and published with Contribute - if they
are in "non-editable regions"!
Please, someone point me in the right direction - if it's
calling Adobe's Help line, or posting the files or whatever. I
can't finish this project and hand off to the client until this is
resolved.
Andrew

Hi,
I'd be reall interested to know if you got anywhere with this as I'm having the same problem.
The article referenced further down this thread is no longer available either.
Any suggestions or advice on this issue would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Bill

Contribute CS3 and CS4 Admin Compatibility

While I wait for the update to Adobe Dreamweaver Developer
Toolbox (ADDT), if my client purchases Contribute CS4, can I send
them keys and administer the site using my Contribute CS3?
Are the two versions compatible?

Please have a look on the below mentioned thread:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=290&threadid=1425923&fo rumid=55

Javascript errors when formating text and images in Contribute CS3

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text
I change the text in the paragraph to bold
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Text_Style.htm, a JavaScript error occurred."
3 This error appears 3 times:
"While executing DW_Text_Italic canAcceptCommand in
Text_Style.htm, a JavaScript error occurred."
4 Next all the styles and formatting options are greyed out
but I can still publish or discard.
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CS3 I now need to close the application and reopen it again and be
careful not to reproduce the error.
I've also tried renaming the Configuration folder under
c:\Users\myusername\appData\Local\Adobe\Contribute CS3\ but it
hasn't worked.
We've reproduced this error on 3 similar machines in our
office all running cs3 but the bug doesn't occur when performing
the same steps in Contribute 3 or dreamweaver CS3 which is running
side by side on these machines.

It might be trying to pull the image from a different
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image file to a different folder and then load.

Contribute CS3 Edit Mode strips away CSS

Looks as if many people are having this issue with no real aswer provided asside from 'Employees' sending private messages to users.
Currently have pages that render fine in a regurlar browser as well as the CS3 Contribute Browser, however when going to edit the page it simply does not render the page with any off the CSS styles applied.
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Page
calls via SSI a (.shtml) file which containes all calls to css style sheets (non @import)
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Contribute cs3 - transparent background!!!???

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package?) including making some template pages for the client to
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I have Contribute 3 (Macromedia - part of the package I have)
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I have purchased and installed Contribute CS3 (it says
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temporarily (in contribute) but this is time consuming with over
400 documents to create via this template.
When the new page is published - the 'now scrolling' div
looks normal and works as it should - showing dark blue text on a
perfectly scrolling white background...
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compatibility problem or if there is a bug in the clients 4.1(?)
version etc.?
Mike
PS. on both my own computer and my laptop (new VAIO) i can
see the designated white background to the div perfectly and all is
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..but I'm using Contribute 3 (macrmomedia?) not CS3?.

Art,
> I saved it and exported it as a quicktime movie,
animation
> compressor codec, millions of colors square pix.
In order to get that alpha channel into the MOV, your
settings need to
be configured for millions+ (not just millions). Can you
doublecheck on
that aspect?
There's also the "Encode alpha channel" setting in the
Import Video
wizard. That's what carries the alpha channel into the FLV.
You might
already be doing these, but we have to start somewhere,
right? :) We
should be able to figure this out.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Contribute CS3 & FlashPaper

I have just upgraded a user from an older version of
Contribute to Contribute CS3 and FlashPaper is no longer installed.
Does Contribute CS3 no longer come with FlashPaper? If not,
is there functionality in Contribute CS3 that can do the same thing
that FlashPaper used to do.

quote:
Originally posted by:
Mshikaji
Or a way to use Flashpaper in Vista and Office 2007? (a
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I am running Vista Home Premium, and have Studio 8 (including
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to run Dreamweaver , Fireworks, and Flash Paper. Flash Paper does
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to PDF and the page contains frames. Also, I have Office 2007
installed, and am having problems trying to print a docx to PDF.
For the most part, it is running okay, just sometimes it does not
work properly.
I have to agree with majority of posters here. Adobe has
pretty much discontinued (to put it nicely) FP... so they don't
feel the need to support those that still use it, as well as any
other Macromedia products. Their only answer seems to be to
purchase their CS3 products. *sigh*

Adobe Contribute CS3 Connection Error

I am trying to use Adobe Contribute CS3 Version 3.1 to connect our web server. I can use WS_FTP and WinSCP to connect to it fine. Our web server is running under CentOS 5.x. When I try to connect using the connection wizard in Contribute, I receving the following error:
Contribute cannot verify your connection information.
/tmp
Please contact your administrator for assistance.
I have tried both FTP and SFTP. Again, I can login, navigate to /tmp and upload, download, and delete files fine using WinSCP. Can someone let me know what Contribute is trying to do to verify the connection? Is there a log file? Any help is appreciated.

When I first tried to connect to our web server, I received a similar error. What worked for me was getting rid of the folder designation when trying to connect in Contribute (in your case /tmp) and allowing users to have permissions to access all folders on the web server. I create Contribute roles to limit the users to specific folders.
I hope that helps.
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How do I browse directory contents in Contribute CS3?

Hi everyone!
I have one of our users uploading photos to our website. At the moment she uses an FTP connection via Adobe Contribute CS3 to our web server. This has worked great in the past. However, at the moment she's uploading pictures to a dynamic website [Wordpress] and not using Contribute to edit the pages directly [as this is obviously done with the Wordpress Administration web panel]. The method she has been using is, within Adobe Contribute CS3, File>Publish File from My Computer. This is great, but the problem is that she can only upload one file at a time, and if she's already uploaded the file, she has no way of knowing she's uploaded it before, except for that Contribute appends a 001 at the end of the file name.
How can she access a folder structure within Contribute CS3, treating it like an FTP client? I'm sure this must be doable. Yes, I could install an FTP client, but she's very comfortable using Contribute CS3 and uses this application for other portions of the website which are static.
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Hi,
To check if she's already uploaded the file, she can click the Choose button in Contribute. On clicking Choose button, Choose File dialog will be shown. In this dialog, she can browse to the appropriate folder in which she had published the images, and verify the contents.
For uploading multiple files through Publish File from my Computer, I do not think it is possible as of now. There can be a workaround though, insert all the images you want to a web page, and publish the web page to the website. Then, all the images will be published along with the web page. Then, you can delete that web page.
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