Open .psd in FW CS3 and maintain paths?

I have a .psd file that when I open in FW CS3 it maintains all the layers just fine, but when I go to click on an object like a box it just shows as a bitmap rather than a path. So I can't edit the color or size.
Any workaround?
thanks much,
Justin

justinae wrote:
really? That's a bummer. Seems like the whole concept of a suite isn't exactly working out if you loose the ability to edit content on platforms that are meant to stream line the process from design to web.
You need to remember that Fireworks and Dreamweaver came to Adobe through the merger with Macromedia. While FW and DW always worked well together, the products of the two companies were not designed to interoperate. Historically, one would design in Fireworks and code in Dreamweaver.
Since the merger, Adobe has been working to improve interoperability between Fireworks and Photoshop (and also Illustrator) - mature applications with different approaches and code bases. There's a lot of code to revise and improve so that FW can read all PS effects and so that PS can read all FW layers. They're working on it.

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