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Fireworks CS4 Known Issues

Styles

Win:

  • Refresh Issues when setting the pages panel thumbnail to none.
  • When a psd file containing effects is brought into fireworks and the effects are edited. Clicking on the effect name generates an error. Clicking on the checkbox area will work fine.
  • Applying a series of PS Live effects sometimes causes an effect to revert to a default value.

Mac:

  • The selection in the Styles panel is small. Sometimes it is difficult to determine which style is selected in the panel.
  • Some complex eps files may crash the application.

Common:

  • Opening a document and then deleting the styles only will not actually delete them. Some object operation needs to be done to save the file with deleted styles.
  • Linking a slice to a page name sometimes deletes the link name after the selection moves off the drop down.

Symbols:

  • Refresh issues of slices with nested symbols having buttons in the nesting hierarchy on exiting symbol edit mode.
  • Trying to move an object in symbol edit mode which is beyond 2 levels of nesting causes some refresh issues.

Nested symbols:

  • For nested symbols with more than two levels of nesting having buttons in all levels bounding box would appear bigger than the nested symbol.

Type Engine:

  • Paste Attributes will currently not paste the kerning property over to the new text block.
  • Copy-pasting of text along with vectors from AI will only bring text into FW. The workaround here is to copy-paste text and vectors individually.

Corrupted Cache

After using the builds of Fireworks for some time and playing around, sometimes the font caches are getting corrupted. Please note that this doesn't happen all the time and not on all the machines. At run time we are occasionally seeing this issue so the workaround if such a case comes up is to delete the below mentioned file manually and re-start the system.

  • Mac: "[User]/Library/Caches/Adobe/TypeSupport/AdobeFnt11.lst" and "[User]/Library/Caches/Adobe/Fonts/AdobeFnt11.lst"
  • Windows: "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\AdobeFnt11.lst" and "C:\WINDOWS\system32\FNTCache.dat"

AIR package creation:

To run an air package created from FW Beta the user needs to have the AIR Beta 3 installed. This is available on labs at

CSS and Images Export:

  • Div, Paragraph and Heading components not implemented yet. These components are used to export as known controls in HTML and CSS. The components (Rich Symbols) reside in Window > Common Library > HTML.
  • Documentation for CSS export in product help is outdated. Please refer to article in demo section.

What is beta?
Beta means the product still probably has issues, but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying it. However, that being said, it is not advised to use beta software in a mission critical project. Nothing is stopping you from doing so, its just not normally a good idea.

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