I created a vector graphic in Illustrator CS3, with RGB. I then opened the file
in Fireworks and everything looks fine because it's still vector. But the color
is not right. It's close, but much lighter. The RGB values are exactly the same.

Anyone have this problem before?

thanks,
Justin

Fireworks does not use color profiles, so the colors you see in Fireworks will
be what the majority of Web site visitors will see (skipping, for the moment,
the huge problem of monitor variation). Only Safari displays images using the
color profiles.

I recently read a moderately controversial blog post on setting/disabling
profiles in Photoshop (comments disabled at 200), but many people appreciated
the article here:
http://www.nicedream.co.uk/articles/..._web_designers
/

So, while your experience is with Illustrator, it's probably the same
underlying cause. Illustrator is showing you the colors with an ICC profile,
even though they're in RGB. When you open the image in Fireworks, you see the
colors without a profile.

This is one reason I like using Fireworks. I have a better feeling about what
my visitors are going to see (again, setting aside the huge problem of monitor
variation).

Interesting. So if we're sold on the fact that we get color sync across the
suite programs, that must be for print only.

One thought I had was to just change the color to what I want in Fireworks,
thereby having a different RGB. That would be ok, i think, because they are for
web only and not print.

I'll read the blog post now.