If you open a document in Fireworks that contains fonts not installed on your computer, Fireworks asks if you want to replace the fonts or maintain their appearance. This is useful if you share files with users on other computers that may not have the same fonts installed.

Choosing Maintain Appearance replaces the text with a bitmap image that represents the appearance of the text in its original font. You can still edit the text, but when you do so, Fireworks replaces the bitmap image with a font that's installed on your system. This can cause the appearance of the text to change.

You can select fonts to replace the missing fonts. After you replace fonts, the document opens and you can edit and save the text. When the document is reopened on a computer that contains the original fonts, Fireworks remembers and uses the original fonts.

To select a replacement font:

  1. Open a document with missing fonts.

    The Missing Fonts dialog box opens.

  2. Select a missing font from the Change Missing Font list.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • Select a replacement font from the To list.
    • Select to display the text in the default system font.
    • To leave the missing font as is, click No Change.
  4. Click OK.

    The next time you open a document with the same missing fonts, the Missing Fonts dialog box includes the font you chose.