Fireworks TO Photoshop integration issues

Question

I love designing my websites in Fireworks, however most of
the developers I work with want layered PSD documents to develop
with (don't ask me why, its a whole other discussion entirely).
Needless to say I was thrilled when rumours came about that
Fireworks CS3 offered 'full' integration with Photoshop CS3. It
will be my main reason to upgrade from studio 8.
Luckily I downloaded the trial version of both programs first
only to find the integration from fireworks TO psd file very poor.
Granted, the fact that layers are exported is a big plus but
the way texts are handled is a nightmare.
When I turn a fireworks document into a *.psd file and open
that document into Photoshop the following happens (this, ofcourse,
only happens when I update the textlayers):
> line distance in pixels is not supported by photoshop:
it turns the lading into huge distances (24px --> 450pt)
> different colors / fonts / styles are not supported: it
tuns the whole textfield in to a similar color / font / style
> All fonts dissapear and the test is set in Myriad!!
Ieven when I use Arial)
This is a major dissapointment for me, not too mention that
it creates a lot of extra work.
I hope it's something I do wrong, I find it hard to believe
that the (text) integration between fireworks and photoshop has
become worse than before.. but it does seems this way.
Tips, ideas, work arounds are -very- welcome
for your information:
I'm running a macbook pro 2.3 Ghz, 2Gb and 256Mb
videocard

Answer 1

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.
A couple suggestions that may not be feasible for your
workflow.
If the text is "locked in" in terms of it not requiring
editing in PS
you could try NOT updating the fonts
OR
In FW render the fonts as paths, export the file as a PSD,
and don't
save the converted PNG, so your text remains editable withing
FW.
These may not be practical options for you, but other than
doing all the
text in PS, it might be the only way at the moment.
That said, there are still many great features in FW CS3. If
the
integration is your only buy-in feature, though, that may not
be enough.
FW is much more akin to Illustrator than it is Phostoshop, so
it's hard
to predict when there will be FULL integration.
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Martijnhinfelaar wrote:
> 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!
>