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Re: Fireworks CS6 does not let me edit type

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:05:06 GMT

I solved the problem.

It cost me some money, but I updated my FontExplorerX software to the current version. Now the Fireworks text tool works reliably again.

I'm not sure why this was necessary, as the previous version of FontExplorerX was doing the job quite nicely, and Fireworks never had a problem with it before. But after uploading, the crashing issue stopped, so I guess the process of upgrading must have tweaked the right spot in my system to get FW to play nice again.

Just posting this here in case anyone else has encountered this problem.

Re: Fireworks CS6 does not let me edit type

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:29:06 GMT

Wish that were so. I saw those threads, but I don't use Spotify at all, so that's not it. I did try a number of ideas from there, such as removing the preferences files. Didn't work.

Re: Fireworks CS6 does not let me edit type

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:50:23 GMT

I have the same issue on my recent iMac, but it's working fine on an older Macbook. Looks like there is a conflict with Spotify. Here is a thread with plenty of clues... Good luck https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1355773

Fireworks CS6 does not let me edit type

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:35:55 GMT

Long story short: Up until a couple weeks ago, Fireworks CS6 was working just fine on my iMac, along with the rest of CS6 (ID, PS, IL, DW). The computer started having problems, and I discovered a bad RAM board which was replaced. Then I decided to wipe the drive and do a fresh reinstallation of the OS and all software. No problems.

Except this major one: Fireworks CS6 no longer allows me to use the text tool. Attempting to select an existing text box, or trying to create a new text box results in a spinning beachball.

I use Linotype FontExplorer X. Thinking that it might be an issue with a glitch somewhere in the font libraries (which I had copied over from the drive clone I'd made before the wipe), I purged them ALL and spent two hours recreating them from scratch. Then went into FW expecting it to work. No change: spinning beachball.

I removed and reinstalled FW completely. No change: spinning beachball.

I went to use FW CS5.1, and it let me edit text again. Hooray, a temp solution to at least stay productive. However the second time I went into FW CS5.1, the same exact problem manifested. Spinning beachball.

I deleted my Fireworks preference files at root level. No change: spinning beachball.

I'm at my wits end. I have work to do! How do I fix this?

iMac (mid-2011) 2.5 GHz, 16GB RAM, OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard