FW CS4 Canvas problems - PC Vista Home

Question

Hi
I have just installed CS4 and am having a few problems with
Fireworks.
1. If I have several floating canvases (separate images) and
I open another image, the image opens behind all the other open
windows. When I click the new image; it remains behind and obscured
by all the other canvases and doesn't come to the front as it would
in any other application.to get the new image to the front, I have
to close all the other image!! Sometimes I can get the new canvas
to the front by clicking each and every other canvas once, which
kind of wakes it up. Does anyone know a way around this?
2. Similar to above. Often when I open a new image with other
images already open on separate canvases, the new image loads into
another already open canvas. This generates a tab on that canvas.
There doesn't seem to be any control over which canvas it
populates. It doesn't even load into the last canvas I was using
before opening it. It seems quite random. If I have many canvases
open, I have to literally hunt for the new image. Does anyone know
how to get new opened images to load onto their own canvases?
3. This is maybe more of a niggle. When I drag a canvas
around the workspace, the whole canvas turns grey until I release
the canvas again. This is a pain if I am trying to place an image
next to another image to reference it.
1 and 2 above have hampered my productivity so much, I am
using CS3 again.
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Mr M

Answer 1

MMisterMM wrote:
> 1. If I have several floating canvases (separate images)
and I open another
> image, the image opens behind all the other open
windows. When I click the new
> image; it remains behind and obscured by all the other
canvases and doesn't
> come to the front as it would in any other
application.to get the new image to
> the front, I have to close all the other image!!
Sometimes I can get the new
> canvas to the front by clicking each and every other
canvas once, which kind of
> wakes it up. Does anyone know a way around this?
Why not maximize them so rather than floating document
windows, they are
tabbed? Just out of curiosity, why do you have so many opened
at once?
> Does anyone know how
> to get new opened images to load onto their own
canvases?
Choose file > open.
>
> 3. This is maybe more of a niggle. When I drag a canvas
around the workspace,
> the whole canvas turns grey until I release the canvas
again. This is a pain if
> I am trying to place an image next to another image to
reference it.
Under Preferences > Edit make sure that Preview Drag is
selected.
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