How to switch Fireworks 8 languages on a Macintosh

Fireworks 8 uses the same single application for the user interface for all languages. On Macintosh OS X.3 and OS X.4, Fireworks 8 supports English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.

Macintosh users can switch the language Fireworks 8 displays by changing the language in System Preferences. Fireworks 8 detects the language set in Mac OS x.3/4 International System Preferences, and displays the user interface in that language.

To change the language Fireworks displays:

  • Quit Fireworks.
  • Launch System Preferences from the Apple Menu, the Dock, or the Applications Folder.
  • In the Personal category, click on the International preference.
  • In the Languages list, select the language you wish to run, and drag it to the top of the list (in this example, Deutsch/German). Alternately, you can drag the current language down. The language at the top of the list is the language Fireworks 8 will display.
  • Launch Fireworks 8.

The International System Preferences dialog can be kept open while you are switching languages in Fireworks 8, but the language change will not take effect until Fireworks 8 is relaunched.