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craigedmonds
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November 30, 2019
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Where to get Fireworks CS6? Case: ADB-10212662-Y2G5

  • November 30, 2019
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I have just bought a new mac and need to install fireworks CS6 again.

 

My old mac has creative cloud and has fireworks in it, I installed it from Creative cloud originally.

My new mac has creative cloud and does not have fireworks in it.

I dont understand why. I pay the full subscription each month for years. Surely as a full paying member I should have access to this in my new mac? Makes no sense.






    Correct answer AliciaWheatley

    Mac OS Catalina does not support fireworks. This is due to the fact that Catalina is 64bit and fireworks is still 32bit. Catalina only run 64bit applications unlike windows 10 that can run 32 bit applications and hence fireworks still works on Windows 10. 

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    Paul-M
    Legend
    December 1, 2019

    Hi - Adobe stopped updating Fireworks back in 2013 so sadly you won't get a 64 bit version for Catalina. Your options are rollback/install Mojave, set up a dual boot or switch to Windows if you want to use Fireworks.

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      craigedmondsAuthor
      Participant
      December 1, 2019

      Thats probably a good option and thanks for the suggestion. I think its time to bite the bullet and simply learn PS like a grown up.

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      Paul-M
      Legend
      December 1, 2019

      PS has plenty of features that Fireworks doesn't like the warp tools for example which are really useful, but it doesn't have the intuitive workflow of Fireworks and isn't as good at vector stuff as Fireworks (you'd need illustrator for advanced vector work).  Good luck .....

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        AliciaWheatley
        AliciaWheatleyCorrect answer
        Inspiring
        November 30, 2019

        Mac OS Catalina does not support fireworks. This is due to the fact that Catalina is 64bit and fireworks is still 32bit. Catalina only run 64bit applications unlike windows 10 that can run 32 bit applications and hence fireworks still works on Windows 10. 

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        craigedmondsAuthor
        Participant
        December 1, 2019

        Thanks. In the back of my mind I realise Fireworks is probbaly a bad habit I need to kick. FW was always a very nice and simple editing tool. There are some similarities in some of the features between FW and PS so will just have to get used to using PS from now on. THANKFULLY I just bought a new mac mini 2018 i7 with 64gb ram and the Blackmagic eGPU Pro so no problems with running Photoshop.

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