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Text does not show in WYSIWYG (aka design view) of DW CS6

Mar 14, 2013 3:09 PM

Tags: #cs6
  • The exact version of the Adobe Application you are running.

Dreamweaver CS6 build 12.0

 

  • Your Operating System details.

Mac Pro Running Mountain Lion v 10.8.2

 

  • Amount of installed RAM.

16 GB ram

 

  • Amount of free disk space.

480 GB available

 

  • Make/Model of Video Card.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120

 

 

  • The EXACT text of any Error Messages you saw.

There is no error message - only blank screens in the WYSIWYG editor in DW CS6

 

  • Precise symptoms of your problem

On any HTML document I try to design - I get nothing in the WYSIWYG editor in DW CS6 but a blank screen.  For example - The code below dispalys nothing in the WYSIWYG editor.  Never had this problem in CS 3, 4, or 5

 

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<title>TEST DOCUMENT</title>

</head>

 

 

<body>

TEST TEXT HERE

</body>

</html>

494 Views   8 Replies   Latest reply: kingstonimages, Mar 15, 2013 11:52 AM
 
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  • Nancy O.
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    1. Nancy O.,
    Mar 14, 2013 3:36 PM   in reply to kingstonimages
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    What about Live View?

    Have you installed the latest updates?

    http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html#dwcs6 12712

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • mhollis55
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    2. mhollis55,
    Mar 14, 2013 5:01 PM   in reply to kingstonimages
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    …and it won't. Ever.

     

    Adobe put browser code (I think Webkit) into Dreamweaver for Live View and Live Code. When you're in Design View, you don't see any imported web fonts, you don't always see things spaced correctly and other things don't necessarily line up the way they will in a browser.

     

    I have Dreamweaver CS3 and CS 5.5 With both browsers, I keep a browser open to check work It ain't real until it works in a browser. And when I finish a template, I load up a Windoze emulator (actually a series of them) and check it out once in Internet Exploiter. Anything that doesn't work gets fixed until it does.

     

    I use Firefox, Chrome and Safari to test while I'm in production. And, despite Dreamweaver's Live and Live Code views, I believe a regularly-updated browser like Firefox and Chrome will give me a better test.

     

    Design view is based on very old browser code by Macromedia. And it's meant to give you an analogue of what's going on, but does not have anything like a modern web rendering engine.

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    3. Nancy O.,
    Mar 14, 2013 6:12 PM   in reply to mhollis55
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    Mark,

    Did you copy & paste the OPs code & check it in Design View?  It displays fine for me.  The question wasn't about rendering web fonts, etc... in design view.  It was, if I read it correctly, about being able to see any plain, unstyled text in Design View.

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • kingstonimages
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    4. kingstonimages,
    Mar 14, 2013 9:43 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Thanks Nancy -

     

    - Yes, I just re-downloaded and re-installed using the updated link you sent to make sure. I am running Build 5861 of DW CS6

     

    - Yes - The question is about being able to see anything at all in design view.  Plain unstyled text is invisible on any new html doc I create.  The bizzare thing is old HTML pages from old websites show the text in design view - it is only newly created documents.

     

    - Yes - If I enter "Live View" i can see the text I entered, but can't edit it in the design window - which I find increadibly frustrating.

     

    Also - DW CS6 works fine on my laptop - just not the desktop.

     

    Thanks in advance for your help. 

     

    Best Regards,  Jonathan

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    5. Nancy O.,
    Mar 15, 2013 9:19 AM   in reply to kingstonimages
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    Do you have an earlier version of DW installed on your desktop?

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • kingstonimages
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    6. kingstonimages,
    Mar 15, 2013 11:22 AM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Hi Nancy,

     

    Thanks for taking the time to reply.  I do still have CS5 installed on my desktop - and actually had not tried using it since the recent CS6 upgrade.  Am experiencing the same problem in CS5 - which makes me think it may be a font problem? 

     

    Best Regards,  Jonathan

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    7. Nancy O.,
    Mar 15, 2013 11:47 AM   in reply to kingstonimages
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    Yes. A corrupted font on your system would indeed cause this.

     

    As a test,  add a font-family inside the <head> tag of your test page and see if it renders in Design View.

     

    <style type="text/css">

         body {font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}

    </style>

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • kingstonimages
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    8. kingstonimages,
    Mar 15, 2013 11:52 AM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Hi Nancy - That is it!  When I put the font tag in the head of the page - I now see text in the design view.  I guess it is time to hunt down some bad fonts.  I am guessing font book is the best way to do this? 

     

    Best Regards,  Jonathan

     
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