Fireworks CS3 Connect Session in 2 hours!

Hello Fireworkers!
Today is the weekly Fireworks CS3 session I host informally
via my blog. For the geeks that find me, feel free to come and ask
questions or if you did something cool in fireworks, feel free to
show it off!
Where
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Time
Thursday (Today) at 11:00am PST

Thanks Alan, so much better with sound :-)
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Fireworks CS3 Error on Set-up

Running installation on Win XP and getting to setup when I
receive an error that IE needs to be shut down. I disabled IE
several times, rebooted again and no success. IE is not running and
the software given me an fatal error to contact support. Please I
need to test Fireworks for future Joomla web work.

A Huge thanks to nedsbeds for finding out that his
issue was the DW sites registry. I tried the same thing and
Fireworks launched properly. The down side is that I have 26 sites
defined in DW so I spent another half hour importing the sites back
into DW. After each site was imported I tried to start Fireworks
until I found the site definition that was causing Fireworks to
crash.
Cause: When I upgraded to CS3 Web Suite I exported my
Deamweaver 8 sites and then imported them in Dreamweaver CS3.
Obviously for me Fireworks CS3 didn't like one of my site
definitions. I would never have made a connection between Firworks
and Dreamweaver sites except for NedsBeds previous post.
Problem (read bug): Fireworks will unexpectedly quit if
Dreamweaver has a site definition that it doesn't like. In my case
the site in question used a dot in the site URL (
http://site.local/).
Solution (read work-around): For me I needed to change the
site url in the Dreamweaver site definition so it didn't have a dot
in the URL (
http://local_site/).
Steps to solve without having to re-create all your sites in
Dreamweaver:
1. Export all your sites from the Deamweaver site manager.
2. Start Fireworks and see if launches normally. If it
doesn't this isn't a solution to your specific problem. If it does
continue with the next steps.
3. Import your sites into the site manager one at a time,
starting (then quitting) Fireworks after each import.
4. When you find that the site you just imported causes
Fireworks to crash delete it and continue with the next site.
5. After importing all your sites and verifying that
Fireworks will run re-create the site(s) that cause Fireworks to
crash.
This has been plaging me for months and I have spent
countless hours tring to get Fireworks CS3 to run. Now thanks to
nedsbeds pointing me in the right direction I am finally happy with
my purchase again!
I hope this helps some other people in this topic that have
been frustrated by this bug.

Fireworks CS3 Crash on Start-up

Hi all,
I am trialling Fireworks with a view to buying the Web
Standard package, but Fireworks will no longer start up.
My environment is Windows XP Pro (fully updated), 2GB Ram,
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Everytime I try to start Fireworks it produces an error - The
application Fireworks has unexpectedly quit. It then generates a
crash report and is sent to Adobe.
I have updated Fireworks using the Adobe Update Tool and this
makes no difference, I have also tried installing Fireworks using
the selective Start-Up method outlined in the Support Knowledge
Base.

A Huge thanks to nedsbeds for finding out that his
issue was the DW sites registry. I tried the same thing and
Fireworks launched properly. The down side is that I have 26 sites
defined in DW so I spent another half hour importing the sites back
into DW. After each site was imported I tried to start Fireworks
until I found the site definition that was causing Fireworks to
crash.
Cause: When I upgraded to CS3 Web Suite I exported my
Deamweaver 8 sites and then imported them in Dreamweaver CS3.
Obviously for me Fireworks CS3 didn't like one of my site
definitions. I would never have made a connection between Firworks
and Dreamweaver sites except for NedsBeds previous post.
Problem (read bug): Fireworks will unexpectedly quit if
Dreamweaver has a site definition that it doesn't like. In my case
the site in question used a dot in the site URL (
http://site.local/).
Solution (read work-around): For me I needed to change the
site url in the Dreamweaver site definition so it didn't have a dot
in the URL (
http://local_site/).
Steps to solve without having to re-create all your sites in
Dreamweaver:
1. Export all your sites from the Deamweaver site manager.
2. Start Fireworks and see if launches normally. If it
doesn't this isn't a solution to your specific problem. If it does
continue with the next steps.
3. Import your sites into the site manager one at a time,
starting (then quitting) Fireworks after each import.
4. When you find that the site you just imported causes
Fireworks to crash delete it and continue with the next site.
5. After importing all your sites and verifying that
Fireworks will run re-create the site(s) that cause Fireworks to
crash.
This has been plaging me for months and I have spent
countless hours tring to get Fireworks CS3 to run. Now thanks to
nedsbeds pointing me in the right direction I am finally happy with
my purchase again!
I hope this helps some other people in this topic that have
been frustrated by this bug.

Creating a web page in Fireworks CS3

When I create a web page in Fireworks CS3 and export it the
page apears on the left side of the screan. I want it to be in the
center of the screan. How do I make it centered? I know that if I
open it in MS Front Page I can select page properties and center
the page in that program but how do I do it in Fireworks?

robweed7 wrote:
> Thanks, I am a beginner. And I understand the "(barf)"
with frontpage. Our
> church ordered frontpage for me to use, then I
discovered Adobe products, and
> can't afford it. I did get them to get me fireworks
though and as a beginner
> it is the coolest graphic design program I have used.
Look at NVu which is free and does a very decent job. I tried
it when it
was only in beta and it was promising although it couldn't
get me to
switch from Dreamweaver. I haven't used the final version but
I'm
certain it will give you better results than using Fireworks'
rigid and
easily breakable exported HTML and certainly a lot better
than FrontPage.
http://www.nvu.com/
> I have another question should you know the answere. As
a beginner I created
> the web page graphics in Fireworks then opened it in
Frontpage(barf) and
> finished the page. I uploaded it to my server and it
looks great in I-Explorer
> but is all chopped up in FireFox. If I publish it
straight from Fireworks it
> looks fine in FireFox. Why, and what do i do?
This is because, despite its flaws (and they are severe),
Fireworks'
exported code is less proprietary and more cross browser
compatible than
FrontPage's. I believed that later versions of FrontPage
created better
code but your story proves once again that no visual Web
"design"
application that falsely promise WYSIWYG is a substitute for
learning
the basics of Web design and development and getting your
hands dirty in
HTML and CSS code to understand how things work. Web design
is certainly
not only about the visuals and any designer who thinks he can
get away
with only creating Web sites visually without the need for a
working
knowledge of the underlying code is seriously delusional (not
saying
this is your case).
I do not mean you need to create your sites' code in NotePad
(which is
completely inefficient IMO). But you do need to understand
how things
work under the hood to make the right decisions in your
editor and be
able to fix problems. WYSIWYG is a pipe dream. Don't buy into
it.
Until you can afford something like Dreamweaver, NVu could
serve your
needs as it offers a source code view and apparently creates
decent code
out of the box. Learning to code HTML and CSS in a more text
based
application may be better for you in the long run if you are
serious
about learning this craft properly though. I'm sorry that I
cannot point
you to specific learning resources as it's been years since I
was a
beginner in this field and learned from too many sources. If
there is
one book I could recommend that I wish had been around when I
started
out in early 1996, it would be Zeldman's "Designing with Web
Standards".
This could be one of the smartest investment you make right
now:
http://tinyurl.com/2s2dhg
(direct link to book page on Amazon)
HTH!
Stéphane Bergeron
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http://www.webfocusdesign.com
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http://www.pixelyzed.com

Import fireworks cs3 slideshow into Dreamweaver 8

Hello, Im trying to get a slideshow created in Fireworks cs3 to work in Dreamweaver 8. I cant seem to get the html file it generates to slot into a Dreamweaver page. When I double click on the slideshow html file in Dreamweaver it opens a page that looks as though nothing is on it, just a lot of shading and a missing image, but tappin F12 to view in browser shows the slideshow works, but how do I get it into a page in Dreamweaver? Thanks in advance

Hello again Pziecina, just wanted to say a very quick thank you. I think I can get the slideshow to work if I remake parts of my site, but I have 5 assignments on the go and thats not really feasible right now, but what really interested me was the links you posted yesterday regarding CSS. As mentioned I have 5 live assignments and have been spending my mornings/afternoons/evenings whittling them down, and when I posted here yesterday I was a little worn out, and my focus was not what it could, or should be. But late last night I took an hours break and had a proper look at the CSS tutorials you posted, and would like to say a very big THANKYOU, although its a bit off topic, I was a little apprehensive of CSS, but one hour into the first tutorial and Im hooked, thats not to say Im anywhere near proficient, but really enjoyed myself following the tutorial, (even though it was at the expense of assignment time ), so, very glad I came here with my slideshow problem, and thanks again

Issue with Fireworks CS3

I'm experiencing an annoying issue with Fireworks CS3.
Immediate use of the application is not available after its opened.
Meaning, clicking on the application menu more than once returns a
message in the title bar, "Adobe Fireworks CS3 (Not
Responding)", and it hangs there at least 30 seconds or so
until it's ready to be used. And this is even having Windows Aero
disabled.
I recently formatted my computer and have minimal programs
installed. Here's an overview:
Windows Vista Business x64
Intel Core2 Quad CPU @2.40 GHz, 2400 MHz, 4 Cores
8 GB Memory - DDR2
500G 8M 7200 SATA II Hard Drives (x2)
GeForce 8600GT 256M video card
Office 2007 Ultimate (complete install)
CS3 Web Standard (less Contribute and Version Cue)
Acrobat Pro 8.1.1
iTunes 7.6
QuickTime 7
If anyone has an idea why this may be happening, please let
me know.
Thanks,
Mike

~Michael wrote:
> I disabled Windows Firewall and nothing changed. Prior
to formatting I did have
> Norton AV 2008 installed, and still experienced the same
issue with Fireworks.
> And yes, I'm the administrator on the computer and UAC
is off. I forgot to
> mention, I'm only experiencing this issue with
Fireworks. Everything else opens
> blazingly fast. Michael
Clutching at straws here but my last bit of advice would be
to make sure
you have the latest NVidia drivers for your graphics card.
Other than
that I don't know what else to tell you except that Fireworks
works
great for me which of course doesn't help. Maybe a call to
support would
get you some more pointed advice are you certainly don't seem
to be
alone with this issue although it doesn't affect every Vista
user.
FWIW, before I got this machine last July (2007) I ran CS3 on
an aging
2001 AMD Athlon 1 GHz machine with 1 GB or Ram (running XP
Pro). While
no CS3 (or any other) application was blazingly fast,
Fireworks was no
worse than any other. The worst offender for me was
Illustrator.
There has to be a combination of hardware, drivers or memory
resident
apps that makes it worse for Fireworks somehow but these
kinds of issues
are the hadest to troubleshoot. That's why I think getting a
hold of
Adobe's official support may help as I hope they are
gathering data on
this to hopefully pinpoint a cause for the problem and may
have some
more meaningful advice than I or other users here may be able
to give.
Stéphane Bergeron
reach : connect : communicate
http://www.webfocusdesign.com
blog : tutorials : articles : gallery
http://www.pixelyzed.com

Fireworks CS3 slow startup

Hi folks,
I installed CS3 Web Premium last week. Not had chance to play
with it a lot as yet but I have come across one irritation already:
When I launch Fireworks CS3 it takes between 10 and 20 seconds from
the program loading on screen to being able to either open a file
or create a new file. Clicking anywhere (e.g. menus) while waiting
gives a 'Not Responding' error message in the window title bar.
I was wondering if anyone else has had these problems or
knows how I might improve the startup responsiveness.
I'm running CS3 under Windows XP with all patches installed
on a Dell Precision 390 workstation with 4GB RAM.
Thanks in advance,
Nigel Hodgetts

Nigel Hodgetts wrote:
> McCaffee VirusScan Enterprise.
> 699 fonts
Ok... that's 2 strikes against you right there... ;-) The
only thing
worse is if you had Norton Antivirus but I guess they're both
about
equally crappy (seriously).
First thing I would try would be to exclude the entire
Fireworks
application folder from VirusScan's real time check and same
for its
application data folder in Documents and Settings. Ideally, I
would
ditch Mcaffee and get a good antivirus like AVG or NOD32.
Both are very
light on resources and will not slow down your system. AVG
has a free
version but NOD32 is about the best antivirus money can buy
(it's not
that expensive). I've been running it for over a year now and
it's the
best I tried. I needed the lightest resources hungry AV
possible as I'm
a musician and run resources intensive software that needs to
work well
in real time.
In your case, the number of fonts is probably a greater cause
of your
slow FW startup time than McAffee. You really should invest
in good font
management software. There are free solutions you can look up
on Google
but the one I prefer is Extensis Suitcase (version 11 came
out
recently). A cheaper and very good alternative is FontExpert
from
Proxima Software which had a new version release recently.
Ideally, you should never keep no more than about 50-100
fonts directly
installed in your Windows font folder and should activate and
deactivate
fonts on a "as needed" basis using font management software.
More than
about 300 installed fonts (less on some machines) will
definitely slow
down your graphic apps startup time and Fireworks is
especially
sensitive to that. I manage over 5000 fonts (yes, that's 5
thousand)
with Suitcase but I never have more than about 75-100 fonts
installed/activated at once.
Some font management software also come with plugins for
certain apps
that will automatically find and load missing fonts when
opening a
document. Unfortunately, none come with one for Fireworks
AFAIK but
FontExpert has one for Illustrator and Suitcase as plugins
for both
Illustrator and InDesign. Both companies say they'll probably
produce
more so, if your purchase either, enter official feature
requests for
missing font loader plugins for Fireworks.
Suitcase has the best font matching algorithm and goes a lot
deeper than
just the font name to find a match which is very important
for text
heavy layouts in apps like Illustrator and InDesign (which I
both use
regularly as well) because minute differences in
hinting/kerning can
cause unwanted text reflows if you load the wrong version of
a given font.
In any case, you should see significant load time
improvements if you
dramatically reduce the number of fonts you have installed in
your
windows/fonts folder and getting more efficient Antivirus
software will
help your entire system's performance.
HTH!
Stéphane Bergeron
reach : connect : communicate
http://www.webfocusdesign.com
blog : tutorials : articles : gallery
http://www.pixelyzed.com

Fireworks CS3 Menu ???s

I am using Fireworks CS3 an I have an number of pop up menus I have created for a site. I have made some up grades in the site and I now must go back and change 1 word in all the links off the menus. What file is created for each menu and hold the data that is in it. Can that file be edited with a word processor to replace the word and then copied back? I have a few thousand to change and hate to think that 1 by 1 is the only way. Ideas?

HI, I found the links in the HTML file and was wble to edit them their. After many hours in front of the screen just to brain dead to remember.
Thanks

Fireworks CS3 Program Switching Issue

In the office we have 3 machines using Fireworks CS3 (part of Studio CS3). All the machines are experiencing the issue I am about to describe. Each machine is an Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB ram. All 3 machines are using Windows Vista.
We all had the old Vista Aero problem with brushes, and we quickly overcame this by using the "disable desktop composition" fix.
However, one problem we have never been able to solve occurs when switching between ANY application and Fireworks. There is a delay of at least 20-30 seconds (sometimes more) when trying to swap back to Fireworks. We have being doing various Google & Adobe forum searches regularly over the past 2+ years, looking in vein for a fix, but as yet have still not managed to find a solution or even a record of someone else with the same issue (mainly because out searches are dominated with the old "disable desktop composition" fix). We assumed it was a problem fundemental to CS3 yet still hold out hope for a solution.
Normally it's not a problem, but when working on websites which involve a lot of graphics edits and/or switching in and out of Fireworks it can quickly add a very frustrating hour or more to a job.
Recently, I was forced to upgrade to a new computer with Windows 7, and transfered my old CS3 install to the new machine. I was surprised to find that I can switch in and out of Fireworks instantly, much to the frustration of the other guys in the office who are unfortunately stuck with Vista for the time being.
Is there a fix for this horrible switching delay on Vista and has anyone else here even sufered with the same issue?
TL:DR - This is not the desktop composition problem with brushes which seems to domnate results when we try to search for a fix, this is a very noticable delay when swapping in and out of Fireworks.

I'm affraid that didn't help. It actually slowed down the inital launch of the program and it took around 5 minutes for Fireworks to finally start. Once started the program switching issue was still present

Windows 7 and Fireworks CS3

Was anyone here able to run Fireworks CS3 flawlessly on
Windows 7? It has very strange behavior. I was able to get it run
for the first time after I have waited for more than hour to start
it. Then I activated it and was able to work with it without
problems. After restart it takes again forever to start. It looks
to me like there is no problem with fireworks but with some code
which is checking if the copy is legal and this is causing the
delay. I used FW very occasionally just to create some web
graphics, i bought FW8 and then i bought upgrade just to be able to
run it on windows vista. i really dont want to buy upgrade again to
use it on windows 7 just once a month. Any help appreciated.
update
Now it stopped working and I have got this message
Licensing for this product has stopped working.
You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the
problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or
contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for
help.

On Windows 7? That's a beta product. If you want to use
Windows 7 you can expect problems as the purpose of the beta test
is to
find problems. CS3 works well on Vista. If you need to work
productively, use a released product, not a beta.
That said, I had the same error on Vista a couple of weeks
ago. Something hung in Fireworks and not only would Fireworks not
start, none of my other CS3 apps (on Vista) would start. I got the
same error message in each. It is something in the licensing
product that Adobe uses. I searched Google for the text of the
error message and found a KB article that eventually got things
working.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401528
I had to run the utility all three times, and then keep on
going through the other steps of moving off file folders before my
apps started working again. It was frustrating for the to stop
working, like that, and I kept being disappointed at having to move
on to the next "if that didn't work, do this." But at least they're
working again!

Fireworks CS3 - Slow down problems

Hi all
I recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate and also
Fireworks CS3 - Fireworks loads up fine but the problem arises when
i try to draw using a mouse on a new canvas. The screen flashes and
there is a massive delay while drawing (like the CPU is
struggling). Does anyone have a solution to this?
My pc -
2 gig Corsair ddr
FX60 CPU
2 x 1900xt cards in Xfire
2 x Raptors in RAID
1 300 SATA HDD
* I have tried Fireworks on windows XP on same machine and
runs fine..

witchsmeller wrote:
> yes its got me scratching my head... It works fine on my
laptop with
> vista but just wont run correctly on my desktop machine.
Was
> thinking it may have issues with the FX60 processor..
I don't know but I doubt it. It's a quad core processor
right? It seems
(from what I quickly read on AMD's site) to be a very similar
processor
to mine (Athlon X2 64 Dual Core 5200+) except for the number
of cores or
course but I don't think that would aversely affect
application
performance, even apps that don't support multi core procs.
Are your graphics card drivers current?
Stéphane Bergeron
reach : connect : communicate
http://www.webfocusdesign.com
blog : tutorials : articles : gallery
http://www.pixelyzed.com

I can't use Fireworks cs3 under Vista

why i can't use fireworks Cs3 under Vista?and the same
problem on illustrator CS3.sorry for my poor English.

ibjork wrote:
> why i can't use fireworks Cs3 under Vista?and the same
problem on illustrator CS3.sorry for my poor English.
I can use both with no problems at all and all CS3
applications do
support VIsta. You will have to be much more specific about
what
problems you are having, error messages, etc.
StÃ©phane Bergeron
reach:connect:communicate
www.webfocusdesign.com
blog:tutorials:articles:gallery
www.pixelyzed.com

Fireworks CS3 Upgrade Requirements

I will be purchasing the Adobe CS3 Designers Edition Upgrade,
which I qualify for as an owner of Studio 8. Since that package
does not include Fireworks, my question is: Do I also qualify for
the Fireworks CS3 upgrade? I did see that I would qualify as an
owner of Fireworks 8, but didn't know if that meant I had to own
the standalone version. Sorry if this has been already asked in
another thread.

Perhaps that you get a better help from Adobe Customer
Service (through sales department). I am pretty sure that you get
pretty good deal by talking to them.
Give it a try. The contact information can be found on top of
Adobe website everywhere, including the forums using "Contact"
link. Once you are on that page, there is lot of options for you to
select from.
To speak with real live person, you need to speak with them
during business hours as in Pacific Standard Time in the states'
time.
Hope that helps.

Difference between connection, session and process

Hi all,
Can anyone please update me on the difference between connection,session and process.
Thanks in advance,
- Sri

I got this useful note by googled in net. It describes session,connection,process gracefully.
A connection is a physical circuit between you and the database.A connection
might be one of many types -- most popular begin DEDICATED server and SHARED
server. Zero, one or more sessions may be established over a given connection
to the database as show above with sqlplus. A process will be used by a session
to execute statements. Sometimes there is a one to one relationship between
CONNECTION->SESSION->PROCESS (eg: a normal dedicated server connection).
Sometimes there is a one to many from connection to sessions (eg: like
autotrace, one connection, two sessions, one process). A process does not have
to be dedicated to a specific connection or session however, for example when
using shared server (MTS), your SESSION will grab a process from a pool of
processes in order to execute a statement. When the call is over, that process
is released back to the pool of processes.

I have a new Macbook Pro - trying to migrate files etc from my Macbook Air using a Thunderbolt Cable between the two. I follow the directions but the two computers never "discover" each other. WiFi connect works but 70 hours is a rough deal.

I have a new Macbook Pro. Trying to migrate files etc from my Macbook Air using a Thunderbolt Cable between them.
I follow the directions but the two computers never "discover" each other - using a WiFi connection works but 70 hours is a rough deal.
(Mac OS 10.8.2 on both computers)

Are you trying target disk mode?
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10725
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