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Hi,
There is a workaround for your 6000 x 6000 px problem. But use with caution!
Search for this file:
Fireworks CS4 Preferences.txt
(Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Fireworks CS4\English\ {file here}
Windows Vista/7: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Fireworks CS4\English\ {file here}
MacOS X: { not sure where it is? }
Then make sure Fireworks CS4 is closed.
Open the file with Notepad or any text editor.
Find:
<key>MaxDocSizeInPixels</key>
<integer>6000</integer>Now change the 6000 value to anything that suites you -- for example, 8000 or 10000, etc. (this is pixels, max size of canvas in Fw)
Save the file, close.
Now re-open Fireworks CS4. Now you can open and create larger documents!
But! Do not forget Fireworks is for screen, so with very large files, its performance and stability will decrease, so be careful!
Hope this helps!
NOTE: Same trick applies to Fw CS5.
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Btw...
"I was trying to create a long and narrow CSS sprite. Did it in Photoshop in the end..."
This is exactly why I have learned to apply the little trick with the Preferences TXT file!
I sometimes need a very long (but narrow) image "sprite" for my Web work. So I usually edit the 6000 value to 10000 (or even more), and then I can create easily a file that is 10'000x10 px, and in this case, Fireworks's performance is top notch, no problems at all!
So anyone that needs to create very long (but narrow) files in Fw, now you know that there's an easy way to do it, and overcome the 6000 px limitation!
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This is an excellent extension! Now changing max possible size of canvas in Fireworks is a breeze!
Just a note: Still, it is safe to make only documents that are less than 10000x10000 px in size. Fw may behave unpredictably when this size is exceeded...
Note 2: On the Mac, the preferences TXT file is here:
Library/Preferences/Adobe Fireworks CS4/en/
Library/Preferences/Adobe Fireworks CS5/en/
...however, now with the excellent command made by Akira, there's no need to edit the file manually anymore > just use the command, set the size and restart Fw!
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