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

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Heaven forbid, Linda! How dare a Fireworks user talk about
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First of all, good for you for testing out the trial first!
I understand there were technical issues in getting the Adobe
Font
rendering engine to work reliably in FW CS3 so unfortunately,
text
problems still exist.
In reality, the integration seems to be more of a one-way
street, from
PS to FW for this version.
Maybe it's on the PS receiving end, or maybe on the FW export
side.
Integration IS better, but it still has a ways to go. If you
read
somewhere on Adobe's site that there is FULL integration, I'd
put in a
call to customer support. That's the marketing people talking
without
thinking.
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workflow.
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> To add to the confusion (and frustration)
> The issue of all fonts turning into Myriad doesn't
happen when I open my PSD
> file (exported from FW CS3) in Photoshop CS2....
>
> So is this a 'bug' in Ps CS 3 or am I doing something
wrong? I hope it's the
> latter!
>

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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??

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I have the CS3 package and it works great. However, I have a load of fonts on my system that are not appearing in the fonts menu in Illustrator CS3. I checked if Fireworks CS3 was picking them up and it is...this is great, but why not in Illustrator??
I also checked Photoshop, and they don't show there either. This is really weird. These are only basic fonts like "Helvetica" etc.
Please, any help would be greatly appreciated on how to resolve this.
I am using Vista 64 and the CS3 suite.
Thanks again,
Mikey

Along with Mikey, I have a large number of fonts loaded but, when looking at them in the font list (with 'Preview' turned on), only about half of them actually display a font...the rest are blank. When I apply the 'blank' fonts to text, nothing appears. When I apply a functioning font that does show a preview, it looks fine. Maybe these are related issues?
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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
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your Fireworks document. (Ignore the dpi settings in Fireworks.)
You could possibly get by with something half as big, but you
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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.

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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.

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
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