Fireworks CS3 formats

Can Adobe Fireworks CS3 open formats like:
- pdf,
- ai,
- psd.
and can they be edited using Fireworks?

*blush* lol
Alex Mariño wrote:
> show off :)
>
> Jim Babbage .:CMX:. & .:Adobe Community Expert:.
wrote:
>> For more info, check out my article on adobe.com:
>>
>>
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/fireworks/articles/frw9at_pshopimport.html
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> MitjaF wrote:
>>> Can Adobe Fireworks CS3 open formats like:
>>> - pdf,
>>> - ai,
>>> - psd.
>>>
>>> and can they be edited using Fireworks?

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Blurry Text using Fireworks CS3 version

I'm creating an ad for use in our local phone book yellow
pages using CS3 Fireworks. When I save it in .png or .jpg and print
it out it is very blurry and unacceptable. I made the mistake of
submitting an ad for something else thinking that the pros would be
able to print it out and it would be clear - and it printed
horrible. Why am I unable to print a clear .jpg file?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Champ3708
My canvas size is 288 x 360 pixels; my font sizes range from
9 - 15; I have the print quality set to BEST on a HP5280 and the
properties say the Max Resolution is 1200dpi. I'm really baffled
that this would happen in such a high end software such as
Fireworks CS3 version. How can anyone design anything using fonts
if this happens.
Yep, it's a tiny image. At 1200 dpi a 300-pixel image would
look good at about 1/4 inch. Maybe 1/2 inch, but it'll start to
look kinda blurry. Your printer may not have the same resolution as
the printer the phone book will be printed on, so you need to know
the print shop's recommendations. Then, do some math. If you know
the size in inches you want your advertisement to be, multiply
those dimensions by the dpi to get the dimensions in pixels to make
your Fireworks document. (Ignore the dpi settings in Fireworks.)
You could possibly get by with something half as big, but you
should ask the print shop for recommendations.
Better still is to use Illustrator or another vector drawing
program and submit scalable art in .ai or .eps format. But, again,
check with the print shop for guidelines.

After installing Fireworks CS3, IE shows the download dialog instead of opening PNG images

After installing Fireworks CS3, when clicking a link to a PNG
image, IE displays a download dialog instead of opening the image.
I am not sure why Fireworks becomes the default file handlers of
PNG and GIF without asking or notifying the user during
installation, but I think this is the cause.
Does anybody know how to fix the problem?
Thanks,
Franklin Tse

Fireworks uses a form of .png as its native file format
(which many people find unfortuante) The Fireworks format includes
some additional information, allowed by the specification, so you
want to make sure that, if you want a .png for the Web, you
export from you Fireworks image, not just
save.
In any case you can re-associate the file types. Exactly how
you re-associate file types depends on your OS.
In Vista, right click on a .gif and select 'Properties.'
Under 'Type of file', click on the 'Change'
button and change the associate application. Make sure the
checkbox next to 'Always use the selected program to open this kind
of file' is checked.

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
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I recently purchased CS3 and started using Fireworks CS3
instead of Photoshop for web development. Absolutely love it. I
started having crashes, mainly on opening complex files created in
Fireworks CS3. A couple weeks ago I formatted my entire system,
starting completely from scratch, only installing the applications
and fonts that I absolutely needed. Nevertheless, I continue to get
Fireworks crashes, which appear by the logs to be related to a
memory leak in Fireworks.
If Fireworks only crashed itself, the issue would be bad
enough. But it brings down several other apps with it. The apps are
different each time. Sometimes it crashes Mail and Dashboard
Calendar, sometimes it crashes Firefox and iCal. Rarely does it
crash only itself. And rarely does it crash all programs. It's
usually a random selection of apps.
All other CS3 apps have worked beautifully. All other apps on
the box work great. And the log is filled with stuff like:
quote:
Adobe Fireworks CS3(299,0xa000cfc0) malloc: *** Deallocation
of a pointer not malloced: 0xfcc2a8; This could be a double free(),
or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting
environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
Jun 1 11:01:02 brian-morykons-computer
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support /ATSServer:
FOExceptionMainHandler caught a fatal exception at 0x000ddb9f\n
Jun 1 11:01:02 brian-morykons-computer
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support /ATSServer:
ATSServer got a fatal exception! Please check /var/log/ats.log,
also viewable in Console.app
So it's definitely a Fireworks issue. And it's too bad. I
love Fireworks for Web Development. Any updates or suggestions
would be appreaciated.
My system: MacBook 2ghz Core Duo, 2gb ram, 100gb hard drive,
Mac OS 10.4.9
Thanks,
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Heaven forbid, Linda! How dare a Fireworks user talk about
his problem with yet another buggy Macrodobe product. The nerve!
Telling him to contact your support is like telling him to contact
the man in the moon because you've run out of cheese.
Brian, I share your frustration. Fireworks has become
completely unstable for me with large or complex files on my Mac.
It works much better on my PC though. It has been my experience
that almost all releases of Macrodobe software works this way on a
mac until late in its product cycle.
This, sadly, seems to be the way Macrodobe works though. :(
This is a user to user forum, Brian. There's not much we can
do about
such issues here. Your best bet would be to contact Adobe
Customer Service.
http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/fireworks/?tab:contact=1
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Fireworks CS3 - Internal error when save as JPEG and batch mode

Dears,
I am being in trouble for all along these 7 days due to this
error. I hope that someone may help me.
After upgrading to CS3 from Fireworks 8, I am having this
"internal error message" both when the preview for a JPEG export
format is chosen (it works OK when the export format is either GIF
or PNG) and when I work with batch operation.
Everything is OK if I run Fireworks either as "root" user or
as "adminplus" user ("adminplus" is the username of an extra user
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My operating system is MacOsX 10.5.4 and my computer is a
MacBook2,1 (MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz with 2GB RAM and a
brand new 186,31 GB Hitachi Journaled HFS+ HD with 100GB free).
I tried in many way to get the valuable differences in the
Library files and privileges (looking to many forums, it seems this
may be the cause, also confirmed by the fact that other users works
fine) but I didn't get any special differences.
I tried to trash the preferences but still the error is
present.
I tried with the master temporary file in MacOsX with
terminal command "stat -x $TMPDIR" checked against command "id".
User and privileges were OK but still the "internal error" was
there.
I tried with a simple reinstall for Fireworks CS3 and with a
full reinstall of the full CS3 web standard suite and, moreover,
uninstalling and reinstalling everything.
I also tried with Fireworks 8 which was not removed by the
upgrade and it has the same problems.
May I receive a competent suggestion about how to diagnosis
and solve the problem?
Many thanks,
Carmine

OK. I solved it!
Whoever will have the same problem may ask how I solved. It
is not complicated but it is a long story. I succeed without any
reinstall of operating system as suggested by the ADOBE support, in
case any of the suggestions found everywhere, will give no result.
I will be happy to explain what to do to whoever will need
it.
My very best wishes,
Carmine

PC restart when zooming - Fireworks CS3

Every time when I make a zoom into a image and scrol using
the hand tool the PC restarts. No error, no blue screen, alwais the
PC restarts.
I´we formatted and reintalled windows XP, update
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P4 3 GH, 1 GB ram, 255 GB HHDD. ATI RAEDON 9600SE 128 MB RAM.
Any Ideas.
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Some comments:
When I scrolled with the hand tool I noticed a thiny noise
like a bzzzzz, if there where some static electicity, (I have the
case on my desktop near me, so whith silence the noise was
perceptible).
I tryed with other applications scrolling the same way and I
nottice the same noise but reduced, not so strong as with Fireworks
CS3.
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was lighter than the CS3 versión.
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when I moved other objects, like panels or menus, it didn´t
happend. But when I moved over any object on the edit window,
without touching (just going over it) the noise appears again.
All this indicate me that FW CS3 render in some special way
(different to other applications) and requires more power from the
video card which produces static electricity causing the pc crash.
It will be interesting some other theory, If any, just for
understanding a litle more.
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PSD source file for animated GIF's - Fireworks CS3

hi
i've upgraded to Web Premium Suite CS3.
Q: i have several PSD source file for animated GIF's created
with ImageReday.
how can i open/iomport/convert it in/to Fireworks CS3 without
looing the "animation"
many thanks
Ueli

ugisiger wrote:
> hi
> no any extras. simply 5 layers "distributed" on the
timeline.
> if i open a "animated" psd, so i get a file with the
layers and one frame, but
> loosing animation stuff like "when show witch layer an
for how long"
> -> there is no conversion to FW frames.
>
> Ueli
>
I don't do animations in PS or IR, but if you like, send me
the file
and I'll see if I can figure something out.
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How do I get Fireworks CS3 to work in Windows 7? After installation my internet would not function.

I installed
Fireworks CS3 in the new Windows 7. It seemed to function well. After a reboot I noticed my internet would not work. I attempted to resolve the matter but was unsuccessful. Has anybody had this problem? If so what is the fix.

Is Windows 64bit or 32bit?
I've heard that 64bit Win7 will not play well with Fireworks CS3. Try to run Fireworks CS3 in some WinXP Compatibility Mode in Win7 -- I think this mode is available in Win7 Pro and Ultimate...
Hope this helps...
Cheers!

Problems with Fireworks CS3 in Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

I have recently upgraded to Windows 7 Pro from Windows XP Pro. My Fireworks CS3 is having a problem. I cannot select items in the left side menu bar if I minimize or move the Fireworks CS3 window. If I have just opened the window it works, but minimize the window or move it and the toolbar stops working.
This problem is not unique to my machine. 2 other people are having the exact same problem. Here is the link to the Windows 7 forum:
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/26957-adobe-fireworks-cs3-issue.html
We sure could use some help. This is one of my bread and butter programs.

I'm happy to hear you have other work-around alternatives!
Businesses with mission-critical software usually are very careful to research that their software will run on any proposed new system or that alternative software is available. This is the main reason that Microsoft had to continue supporting XP longer than they intended. Too much business-critical software ran on XP but did not run under Vista and would take some time before it would be upgraded to do so...if at all.
If you have "bread and butter" apps, then it was your responsibility to make sure that you could run them once you upgraded. Adobe's software worked more or less as advertised for the operating systems that were available at the time the versions were released. That's reasonable. Expecting indefinite support into the future is not.
Fireworks isn't a $2000 product. Adobe continues product development, yes. They've moved on to CS4 and its patches. You can upgrade to FW CS4 for about $150. The system requirements for FW CS4 do not include Windows 7; note that Fireworks is only certified for 32-bit operating systems:
http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/fireworks4/systemreqs.html
However, there's a statement about CS4 applications (in general) working with Windows 7:
http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/faq/?anonymous_element_1=4
And you'd want to get the recent updater:
http://www.adobe.com/support/fireworks/downloads_updaters.html
speedtigger wrote:
... It is probably not a huge problem to fix for an Adobe engineer.
If the feature worked under Vista but does not work under Windows 7, then that means that the problem probably lies somewhere in how the program communicates with the OS. The problem is not isolated to the tens - possibly hundreds - of thousands of lines of Fireworks code, but in how that code interacts with the Windows 7 APIs. To solve this problem is not the work of "an Adobe engineer." It's the work of a project team. It's the work of a project team which would have to be pulled off development of Fireworks CS5 for a few months to resurrect the old CS3 code, get familiar with it, and try to track down and solve the problem, then package up, test, and release a patch . By pulling resources off CS5 development, CS5 would be delayed or quality inversely impacted. Since CS3 is not a current product for sale, I can't see Adobe making this investment. There's no return on it, where there would be a return on getting a quality FW CS5 out the door on time.

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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Creating webpage in fireworks CS3. Is text searchable by search engines?

Hello all,
I started using fireworks cs3 to design webpages. I've been
using Dreamweaver cs3. I'm new to the whole flash designing. When
you put text and images to design your whole layout, is the text
searchable by search engines?
I noticed that once you save your file as a swf when you open
it you can't highlight any text to copy? I was wondering how I
would go about putting the meta tag info in and make the text so
the search engines would be able to scan the pages to pull up in
search results?
Thank you all!

FW can be used to create prototype HTML pages, but those
should never be
used for real production work. The code is fragile and
sub-optimal (as is
any wizard-based HTML). Your graphics application should be
used to produce
the images used on the page, which is created in Dreamweaver.
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> Hello all,
>
> I started using fireworks cs3 to design webpages. I've
been using
> Dreamweaver
> cs3. I'm new to the whole flash designing. When you put
text and images
> to
> design your whole layout, is the text searchable by
search engines?
>
> I noticed that once you save your file as a swf when you
open it you can't
> highlight any text to copy? I was wondering how I would
go about putting
> the
> meta tag info in and make the text so the search engines
would be able to
> scan
> the pages to pull up in search results?
>
> Thank you all!
>

Text measurement in Fireworks CS3

Hi all,
I'm designing a phone app, and a styleguide for the design,
which require all the elements to be pixel perfect and add up to
the screen dimension. There are 2 problems I run into is how to
measure text in Fireworks CS3:
1) Fireworks CS3 measure text in point, not pixel. I use an
online converter but it doesn't quite work. (For example, 17point =
22.666 pixel. Should I just round it up to 23?)
2) Web text is measured based on the em square, not the size
of the character itself. Is there a way to find out the em square
size in Fireworks? (I thought the blue bounding box when the text
is selected is the em square, but I tried taking screenshot and
measure it, and it turned out that it's not the case).
So, to sum it up, what procedure should I follow to measure
text in a pixel perfect design in Fireworks CS3? Thanks.

But what about the tutorial you did for Lynda.com where you inserted the google map within an i-frame? I am in a similar situation where I am trying to just insert a scrolling text box within my layout done within FWCS4 using similar layout. Just simple scrolling text box that's it.
I see what you are saying though. DW is the true HTML dev tool but I'm just having too much damn fun in FW and don't want to leave. :]
Kevin

Creating a Photo Album through the Fireworks CS3

I'm trying to create myself a photo album in dreamweaver and
it says I need Fireworkds 4 or GREATER, so I click the download
trial button and I downloaded thhe Fireworks CS3, but dreamweaver
doesn't recognize it and keeps saying "I need a fireworks 4 or
greater"
Any help please, thanks.

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
Sounds like you're not using Dreamweaver CS3. It that's the
case, it doesn't
recognize a program written in it's future.
If you ARE using DW CS3, I can't really help without a little
more
information.
I have Dreamweaver 8. So what fireworks program would I need
for the photo album to work. Can I get a trial of Fireworks 4 or
some other fireworks program somewhere else??

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

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